Fun With Front Squats, 8×1

Posted on Jun 27, 2007 - 9:54pm by MarkFu in Training Log

This is another progression lift for clean and jerks and I am starting to get the hang of it. The trick of this lift is to get the weight racked solidly against the front of the shoulders before you perform the squat. The correct way and the wrong way to do this lift can be found here. There is no effective way to spot this lift, so if you miss the lift and have to dump it, just push it away. Since I am using steel plates, I did not want to create a commotion if I had to dump. As it turned out, I still got a PR and had good control throughout each lift.

I was probably somewhere in between and got my best numbers to date as my form improved since the last time I did this. 95/115/135/155/175/185/200/205pr/. In between each set, I did 3 reps of dead hang pull-ups.

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