"The clean requires and develops enormous strength, flexibility, power, speed, accuracy, agility, coordination, and balance. The movement is as complex and nuanced as any movement in sport and can only be improved, never fully mastered." –Greg Glassman in "The Clean," published in the CrossFit Journal in 2003 👉 https://journal.crossfit.com/article/the-clean-2 | CrossFit

Workout of the Day Wednesday 190320 Power clean 5-3-3-1-1-1 reps. Practice the L-sit for 10 minutes. Practice front and back scales for 10 minutes. The power clean is the perfect training exercise for the violent hip-leg extension of the second pull. It has great application to explosive sport movement, but those sporting movements are not going to develop maximal hip-leg explosiveness. Only weightlifting can develop this explosiveness due to the unique posture and dynamics of the second pull. #

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