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Best Exercises to Improve Your Clean
Max Aita shares his favorite movements to address different weak points and improve the Clean.
Clean
5 Tips To Improve Your Clean
Coach Max Aita and Team Juggernaut bring your 5 Tips To Improve Your Clean. Use these simple but effective tips to…
Clean
How To Warmup for the Clean
Try out these drills to better warmup before your next Clean workout. An effective Clean warmup should increase core…
Clean
Improving the Clean
The Clean is one of the most effective tools to develop speed & power in any athlete and is critical to success for…
Clean
5 Tips for a Better Clean
Focus on these 5 aspects of your clean technique for better performance and results. Setting up properly in the start…
weightlifting
Hip vs Thigh Contact in the Clean
Where should you contact the bar in the clean, the hip or the thigh? Max Aita discusses the differences in each and why…
weightlifting
Alyssa Ritchey’s 105kg Clean and Jerk
Alyssa Ritchey made a HUGE 105kg/231# Clean and Jerk to win the 49kg/108# class at the 2018 American Open Finals. Her…
weightlifting
Pillars of Clean Technique | The Explosion
The explosion from the hips is critical to impart height to the bar while keeping it close to your body for a…
Movement
Front Rack Mobility
One of the most challenging aspects of beginning to learn the Clean & Jerk is the ability to hold the bar in a proper…
Fitness
How to Fill CrossFitters’ Weightlifting Gaps
Learning the snatch and clean & jerk is the pursuit of a true craft. Every athlete who has competed in weightlifting…
Recovery
National Championship Update – Donovan Ford
The last few weeks there has been a lot on my mind, mainly about this year’s National Championships. Training has been…
weightlifting
Weightlifting Q&A with Colin Burns and Samantha Lower
Colin Burns and Samanta Lower are two of the top weightlifters in the US today. Colin is a 94kg lifter based out of…