Jeff from The Strength Co. Gym taught me how to power clean in 1 session, and he is an excellent coach.

For those considering adding it, be aware that there are 10# full-diameter bumper plates that place the bar at the right height and allow you to work on form at a very manageable weight.

Yes. Yes, you should!

I never managed to do the triple extension right. What I end up doing is more a muscle clean. Finally I had to give up this move. When you reach intermediate level, your hands are more than full (so to speak) with 4 lifts anyway.

I needed to hear this.

My best friend and I rode BMX bikes from kindergarten until we got drivers licenses. Both of us, 6' 185-195lbs, and could both do 300lbs. And it was all from BMX if you think of what a bunny hop, or most jumps are about it's the same motion. My friend, and I would have made the 1998 Kansas State wildcat football powerlifting poster with our cleans. In high school.

I added it back in.  Stopped for awhile cuz thought I was getting too old (49).  Even use my power bar with the center knurl like you.  That knurl tears me up sometimes if I dont watch it....haha.

I have never been able to get in the catch position I just don’t bend that way

I still do them at 62 as I like the feeling of speed in at least one lift. Also my quads get hit by them

Thank you!  Made up my mind. I have been back and forth on this one

I went down that rabbit hole. I have watched so many fucking videos, predominantly olympians' who're doing either cleans, powercleans or clean and jerks:

This guy has just broken all of my over-thinking, fixed my questions and confusion from all of the different videos by saying one damn sentence hahaha.

What's age got to do,  got to do with it? (apologies to Tina Turner). I'm 60 and I power clean, squat clean, clean and jerk, power snatch and snatch. Not a problem. And I only started about 5 years ago so not like I've done them all my life. Wts are not all that heavy, 62.5kg for my various cleans (137.5lbs) and 45-50 kgs for my snatches (100-110lbs). Limiting factor is technique at the moment but all the weights are going up (slowly).

I shouldn't and never will.  My elbows don't come up at all.  Never did, even in high school.  I don't respond to stretching either.   So, I do double heavy kettle bell cleans instead because the elbow stays pointed at the floor so no problem.  But if you wanted to work on power with a barbell, you can do snatch pulls. But forget the power clean.

If the point is to keep your power in line with your strength. Would the high pull be a better exercise?

Maybe this is dumb, but what are the signs that I can't recover from 3x a week deadlift? Starting to miss reps? Or just general fatigue?

I’ve been doing the Arnold Bodybuilding Program (not the 2x a day one) and Clean and Presses are on the 2nd and 5th day - what are your thoughts on this as a bodybuilding exercise? I used to do 8-10 reps but recently dropped them to 3-5 reps.

What percentage of your deadlift should your power clean be if your technique is sound?

On week 3 of trying to let my back heal from my first go at Power Cleans in the SS plan...

I'm going into my 6th week of the novice progression program. I have an old groin tendon injury that resurfaced and is causing difficulty with my squat and deadlift. Should I let it heal, or should I go lighter and let it stronger with lighter weight?

those 225 cleans look great! I've backed away from power cleans at 61 as I'm concerned they may be hard on my shoulders