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Originally Posted by alwayslive
anyone know how to fix bad elbow positioning on the clean/power clean?
i've been doing wrist stretches, bicep/forearm stretches, front squat arm positioning and just everything that google has told me to do bu my elbows are still too low..
somone help please
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A really good way to gain that flexibility is to break the power clean down into different parts and working on the part where you are having the most difficulty with.
For you, I can bet you anything its your shoulder flexibility, provided you have been working on wrist flexibility. There are many ways to do this, but what you can try doing is have the barbell about shoulder level racked on the power rack. Load up the barbell with plates so that you can't push it up. Then position your arms in the way you would for the power clean with the barbell resting on your clavicle. Stretch this for about 20 seconds, and as you get better push you elbows a bit higher.
The next step would be to try front squatting with that position.