How To Do A Clean High Pull

The high pull is good for building clean strength and improving your deadlift unlike the hang pull.

How to do a clean high pull. The more volume intensity andor frequency youre using. Set your clean starting position tightly and initiate the lift by pushing with the legs against the floor. While the classic snatch and clean jerk have much less in common than their high pull variants there are still some important differences between the two Olympic lifts.

Make sure you extended your hips to pull the weight up as you shrug your shoulders and traps and bring your elbows back to lift the weight. Most people set up for the clean like they do with a deadlift. Once the athlete has cleared the knees with the bar a rapid acceleration takes place and the bar is moved through.

Use an overhand grip to hold a dumbbell in each hand. High pulls are certainly easier than the clean because theres really no way to fail the lift. My take on them is that theyre an assistance exercise used to improve the clean.

The keys to this exercise are explosiveness and posture. The important thing however is just that you do them. If your goal is to just get better at O-lifts stick with the.

The high pull is one way to prepare people for the hang clean. Stand with your feet hip-distance apart. At mid- to upper-thigh your shoulders should be at least slightly in front of the bar.

Keep your weight balanced over the whole foot and maintain approximately the same back angle until the bar is at mid-thigh. The biggest difference lies in where the bar is grasped. Doing high volumelower weight cleansnatch pulls during high volume sections of the squat cycle low volumehigher weight pulls during low volume sections of the cycle.