July 28, 2023by Dr Michael Waller, PhD, CSCS,*D, NSCA-CPT,*D, FNSCA, Ian Bonder, MS, CSCS,*D, RSCC, Marc Tangeman, CSCS, Andrew Shim, EdD, CSCS,*D, and Tim Piper, EdD, CSCS,*D
The purpose of this article is to provide the strength and conditioning coach with a template on how to integrate the clean and power clean into athletic training programs.
Jennifer Dodd, with United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), speaks about a Coach’s role in clean sport at the 2016 NSCA Coaches Conference. In the first video of the series, Dodd provides an overview of USADA and engages the audience in discussion on the coach's role in anti-doping.
Explore the developmental process of teaching an athlete how to perform a power clean. In this session from the 2015 NSCA National Conference, Joe Kenn demonstrates how to “slow cook” athletes to a fundamentally sound power clean through a process of implementing supplemental movements.
As some of the most influential people in athletes’ lives, coaches can play a powerful role in keeping sport clean by helping athletes understand and act upon their anti-doping responsibilities. These Coach’s Advantage videos cover the latest anti-doping information.
Some of the major misconceptions concerning Olympic-style weightlifting for sport are addressed in this article, providing evidence-based recommendations to better implement the snatch, clean and jerk, and their derivatives in the training of high school and collegiate athletes.
This quiz assesses your knowledge of the content within the power clean module. You must achieve 10 correct responses. Your CEUs will recorded automatically in your NSCA record.
The power clean is similar to the power snatch but with two major differences. Firstly, the final bar position is at the shoulders, not over the head, and secondly, the grip is approximately shoulder-width apart, whereas the snatch has a considerably wider grip.