Meeting The Bar in the Clean: Avoid Crashing in the Turnover

A common problem with the clean is athletes letting the bar crash onto them in the turnover. In other words, the bar falls into the rack position rather than the bar and shoulders connecting smoothly. This creates excessive downward force on the lifter, encouraging collapsing of the trunk, a loss of position, poor timing in the transition out of the squat, and an unnecessarily difficult recovery. Lifters who make this mistake are usually trying to rush into as deep of a squat as quickly as possible, movin