The Clean and Push Press

Posted on Apr 09, 2008 - 7:23am by MarkFu in Training Tips

In my previous post, Rack Pulls, I provided some instruction tips from Beyond Strong. In that same training session last night, preceding the rack pulls, I also did squat cleans and push presses and found these great reasons for doing the clean and push press. He gives the benefits of each but here he is talking about the power clean and not the squat clean, which is what I did. Close enough and great info.

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