Muscle Clean (Barbell)
Pull a barbell from the floor to the shoulders with straight arms, no dip or re-bend to catch it.
- Pattern
- Hip hinge
- Equipment
- Barbell
- Works
- Glutes, hamstrings, quads, upper back
- Loads
- Shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees, ankles, lower back
When it stalls, these usually help
Direct work for your hamstrings, which this lift also depends on.
Direct work for your quads, which this lift also depends on.
How Swolver coaches it
This lift is read from your own sessions. When it goes flat for four weeks, Swolver names the likely cause in plain words, such as weekly sets that dropped, and the one change to make. The rules are all on the method page.