Chrisdavisjr
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‘Horrific’ is the word! You see that from poorly-coached CrossFit athletes too. I’ve heard it mockingly called a ‘Starfish’ clean but really it’s just a power clean with poor technique.There is also that horrific variation that they like to teach high school football players where they float the feet out to the sides for the catch.
Any weightlifting manual I’ve read differentiates the muscle snatch and the power snatch in the same way: The former involves receiving the bar very high with straight legs (and often pressing the bar to full extension of the arms), whereas the latter involves receiving in a partial squat from anywhere between ‘soft knees’ to femurs parallel with the floor and with the arms fully locked out (this possibly being the most notable distinction).I hav always heard Muscle Snatch and Power Snatch equally used synonymously. I would like to know if there's an actual recognized refernce thoug,
This terminology is definitely used fairly uniformly across the English speaking Olympiv weightlifting community but there are countless other variations of these lifts, each with their own specific applications in training aspects of the competition lifts.
Outside of Olympic lifting there’s less need to be so specific with terminology, if you’re using these lifts to train for power output as part of a general strength and conditioning program for example, so terms like ‘power clean’ and ‘power snatch’ are more broadly applied.
I suppose it’s kind of like how a ‘Larsen Press’ is a bench press but also isn’t, depending on who you talk to.
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