![]() ![]() Although many lifters may never get their jerk up to par, as you said, there are probably even more lifters who can’t get improve their clean as a limiting factor since most of them, you will never even hear about because if they got on that stage and cleaned nothing, who would mention them? They’re just unknown. I didn’t say it was outright easy, but it’s much easier to fix a technique problem than to try to improve leg strength by any serious amount in an elite lifter who already probably does everything known to be effective in building leg strength. Among all the lifters I mentioned in this post, I think we all know who has the most potential to win Olympic gold and break WRs. The power’s there, but it’s just the technique. Tian Tao is on the other end he is a lifter who cleans a WR like a lollipop, but has so far failed to jerk it twice. Zhao Chaojun (56), Oleg Chen (62), Li Fabin (56), Wu Jingbiao (56), Ding Jianjun (62) all suffer from this problem and I was SHOCKED to see Wu seemingly conquer it this time, (though he’s done 137+163 before at the 2012 Olympic trials and only got 133+156 in London). ![]() The type of lifter who struggles to stand with the clean may have a more serious leg strength deficit that often cannot be greatly improved because it’s simply a physical limit of theirs. What you said is another kind of imbalance, but in my opinion, the lifters who fail to jerk but can easily clean just need to improve technique and translate more absolute strength into speed strength. Well, usually, people who struggle with the clean have trouble with the jerk as well since the clean saps up so much of their power. ![]()
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