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Olympic Lifts for Powerlifters: How to Add Them
Add the snatch and clean and jerk to your powerlifting training. Learn which variations to start with, what loads to use and how often to train them.
Guides
Training guides
Research-backed supertotal guides you can turn into a program in the builder.
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Supertotal Training Program: A 4-Day Five-Lift Week
Program the squat, bench, deadlift, snatch and clean and jerk in one week. Get a sample 4-day plan, loads, sets and a weekly progression that works.
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What Is a Supertotal? The Five-Lift Strength Test
A supertotal adds your best squat, bench, deadlift, snatch and clean and jerk. Learn how to test all five lifts, pick attempts and set a baseline.
From the guides
"The clean pull, snatch pull, hang high pull, jump shrug, and mid-thigh pull are weightlifting pulling derivatives that can be used in the teaching progression of the full weightlifting movements and are thus less complex with regard to exercise technique."
Suchomel TJ, Comfort P, Stone MH. Weightlifting pulling derivatives: rationale for implementation and application. Sports Medicine, 2015. PubMed