Bodybuilding Mauritius Quick tips: The Clean and Press. By Vic Goyaram

BODYBUILDING MAURITIUS QUICK TIPS:
THE CLEAN AND PRESS

by Vic Veeraj Goyaram for Bodybuilding Mauritius

Newly signed Team Bodybuilding Mauritius athlete from South Africa
Duane Gilbert, a big believer in clean and press. Check his shoulders

You can work your entire body with the "fabulous four", consisting of squats, deadlifts, bench presses and the last one which risks being forgotten: the clean and press. The clean and press is a bodybuilding adaptation of the olympic weightlifting move called the Clean and Jerk. 

Ways of performing the clean and press

1. The "Bodybuilding style"

The video below of Justin Harris depicts this very well. Shoulder width grip with minimal involvement of the legs and no jerking. Justin relies less on weightlifting technique and momentum to get the bar up and recruits more muscle to do the job. This is what we bodybuilders are after. There is no bending of the legs and the bar travels only at arm's length up to mid thigh. 

2. The hang clean and press (pictured)

Bending the torso a bit, allowing the bar to reach near the knees. 

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts

The barbell clean and press works many muscles at once, making it a great metabolic activator besides a great movement to thicken the body. The clean and press works many muscles in unison and the end result of working with such compounds is more impressive than individually developing each muscle with isolation exercises. 

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