What is "natural" would require an agreed-upon working definition of that term. How about, "something we might do as adults if we worked on a farm 200 years ago?" (Reminds me of that old joke, "Manual labor isn't just the president of Argentina" - nothing bad intended about Argentina, of course, just a reference to the fact that we in Western societies, as a group, don't do much of it any more.)
If you agree with my definition, then I think deadlifts would win the "what's most natural" contest among all the power and Olympic lifts. We might add pullups, and various carries, too - shouldering something and carrying it, e.g.,
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If you agree with my definition, then I think deadlifts would win the "what's most natural" contest among all the power and Olympic lifts. We might add pullups, and various carries, too - shouldering something and carrying it, e.g.,
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