Clean and jerk PR critique

[andrewg]

Please take a look at my clean and jerk PR of 230 pounds (http://www.youtube.com/user/mieyoshinaga#p/u/3/h1IyLbSdmlc) at a bodyweight of 196 pounds.

I have just been working on being aggressive as possible, nothing too technical.

Thanks in advance.

[COACHMCCAULEY]

Please take a look at my clean and jerk PR of 230 pounds (http://www.youtube.com/user/mieyoshinaga#p/u/3/h1IyLbSdmlc) at a bodyweight of 196 pounds.

I have just been working on being aggressive as possible, nothing too technical.

Thanks in advance.

Andrew,

Nice Jerk.

Agression has little to do with this. It's about rythym and technique. I'm not being a wiseass here but usually with aggression comes a tendency to use muscles out of sequence and that is never a good thing in Olympic lifting.

Your technique isn't bad but you're jumping. In other words, you spend too much time on the front of your feet during the pull. You actually jump off the floor and move forward at the catch, which is seldom good. You should try to move the bar inward towards you off the floor better (lat squeeze pendulum movement) and stay through the rear of your feet (feels flat-footed) longer during the pulls.

Lifting is more about bringing the bar to you than going out and getting it. Think of bringing it into your wheelhouse and staying over your original base of support throughout.

You are rolling your shoulders to the rear at the top of the pull and (I think) trying to shrug up at the top. I teach to never roll the shoulders back in the pull and only shrug to bring yourself under the bar.