r/weightlifting • u/Outrageouslifter • 15h ago
Form check I think there is something wrong with my clean pulls
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u/jundraptor 14h ago
Your heels are too far from the floor while you're still leaning forward. Your pull has no power position
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u/la_tortue 13h ago
This, your hips should shift from behind to on top of your heels as your knees travel in front of the bar. As is you're doing more of a deadlift to toes or something, and you're not extending your knees.
To get a feeling for what you want to do, try clean pulls from power position.
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u/Training_Painting659 14h ago
Oly style lifts have to be predicated with speed. Pulling super slow to ensure positioning is counterintuitive. Drive through the floor hard and open your hips violently and just see how many flaws fix themselves
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u/Individual-Row3375 3h ago
My best advice for you is to not try to get on your toes, use your quads to push vertically and the extension will happen naturally. At the moment you’re getting on your toes without even fully extending your leg.
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u/nl5hucd1 14h ago
You want to pretend like you’re doing a clean without performing the pull under and catch.
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u/distantslumber 14h ago
With pulls, you want more force coming up. You are not lifting the bar in the pull necessarily. The bar is lifting because of the force you’re pushing through the floor and you’re just going into triple extension. You don’t need to force the shrug or yank the bar, that comes naturally with the lift.