12/06/2026
How close you have the bar to your centre of mass matters, the further the bar is away from you, the more out of balance you'll be and the less you'll lift.
In Olympic Weightlifting, the 3rd pull is often where people struggle with this and the Muscle Sn**ch & Muscle Clean (with hook grip and contact) is a movement I've found success in helping improve that proximity, because if you create too much separation at any point, there's no way to recover effectively.
I like to max them out for triples, or doubles as part of my warm up reps working into my main movement or as part of lighter sessions.
And because they're naturally load limiting, you can do that basically every session giving you frequent exposure to challenging loads on movement that will improve a common technical deficiency.
Cue mid foot pressure and high elbows that don't drop.
Happy days.
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