Should your bench press or power clean be stronger? im just curious. im guessing your power clean should be but at football im thinking half and half is switched. Some of us have a stronger power clean and some have a stronge rbench.
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04-07-2009, 03:46 PM #1Hai guiz!
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What should be higher?
"Giving your best is more important than being the best."
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04-07-2009, 03:52 PM #2Registered User
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bench press should be higher
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04-07-2009, 03:54 PM #3
The bench press would only be higher because people have no idea how to do a power clean properly. Just look at the muscles involved and it should be obvious.
......Originally Posted by Icicle
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04-07-2009, 04:19 PM #4Registered User
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In the book "Practical Programming for Strength Training," authors Mark Ripptoe, CSCS, and Lon Kilgore, PhD in Kinesiology, laid out a table of 1RM performance standards that can be expected of an athlete of various levels of training. In the table, a higher bench press 1RM is required for an advanced level than the 1RM required for a power clean for every weight class, meaning the authors judgment is that the bench press 1RM should be higher for most people.Originally Posted by J.L.C.
Take a look here:
http://www.exrx.net/Testing/WeightLi...Standards.html
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04-07-2009, 04:36 PM #5Registered User
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it depends what you train for the most...
POWER cleans will likely be lower...but a full clean would be fairly easy to get higher than your bench...
a few years ago when I was going more explosive lifting my full clean 1rm was 215, bench was 205, and I could do power cleans for maybe 3X185(maybe 200 lbs for a 1rm)...
But the learning curve for oly lifts is tough and a lot of people do not have great form.
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04-07-2009, 04:38 PM #6I rep what you max!
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argue about religion or politics over in MISC instead.
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04-07-2009, 07:42 PM #7Registered User
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This is correct. Big difference between power clean and squat cleanOriginally Posted by DtotheJtotheH
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04-07-2009, 08:07 PM #8They also have the power clean as a low percentage of the back squat across weight classes (60-74% on the ones I checked), this should really be 80%+ (assuming efficient technique and full squats).Originally Posted by Icicle
Usually around 10-15% more on a squat clean good technique.Originally Posted by Icicle
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04-07-2009, 08:41 PM #9Dub Club
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I'm assuming you're playing highschool football? Most high school athlete's power/hang cleans will be higher until they learn how to strength train harder. That was the case and experience for me, at least. My bench didn't surpass my hang clean until after senior year of football before graduation. I did have a pretty beastly clean back in the day though of about 280 if I remember correctly..Didn't quite hit 300
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04-08-2009, 02:44 PM #10Hai guiz!
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are you sure you have the right thread...?Originally Posted by XXX666
alright thanks guys, i was just wondering and yeah the power clean would take longer to train for correct form."Giving your best is more important than being the best."
I train as an athlete, not a bodybuilder.
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