Muscle Clean
Traps · Forearms · Glutes · Hamstrings · Lower back · Shoulders · Barbell
How to do it
- Set up and perform the first and second pull of a clean exactly as normal, accelerating the bar with hip extension to full body extension.
- At full extension, shrug and pull with the arms as in a normal clean, but do not re-bend the knees or drop under the bar.
- Continue pulling the elbows up and around until the bar turns over and settles into the rack position on the shoulders while you remain standing tall.
- Catch the bar in the standing rack position without dipping to receive it.
- Lower the bar back to the floor or hang position under control and reset for the next rep.
- Primary muscle
- Traps
- Secondary muscles
- Forearms · Glutes · Hamstrings · Lower back · Shoulders
- Equipment
- Barbell