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Oct 18, 2024, 03:07 PM UTC

The Squat Clean: How To Do It & Why Your Workout Needs It

The squat clean is another name for the first half of the clean and jerk movement—a lift that's performed in Olympic weightlifting contests. SUPPLEMENTS NUTRITION FITNESS APPAREL If you've been

The Squat Clean: How To Do It & Why Your Workout Needs It
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The squat clean: how to do it and why your workout needs it
 
It’s the great irony of fitness: we keep innovating, but, at the same time, we’re always going back to basics.

Despite new apps, new equipment, new gyms, and new online training platforms, the biggest, strongest, leanest, and most powerful people on the planet still skip most of the trends (fads?) and do the same basic lifts that their predecessors relied on a century ago. For example, squats and cleans with a good old-fashioned barbell. 

Combine these two classic movements and you have the squat clean, a foundational exercise for Olympic weightlifters, and a great choice for people who are looking to get stronger, more explosive, and more functionally fit overall.

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