• Assume athletic stance with shins touching bar
• Grip bar just outside of stance
• Get into deadlift position with back locked, shoulders up, and abs and chest flexed
• Explode by fully extending hips, knees and ankles and forcefully shrugging
• Pull bar up keeping it close to body
• Drop under bar and catch it along shoulders in athletic stance with knees bent

Sets/Reps: 5 x 5 at 80-85%
Frequency: Twice per week
The payoff: Explosive power throughout your hips and legs
The wisdom: “There is a direct relationship between proficiency in the power clean and success in the 40 and vertical. The clean trains the same hip drive that generates explosive power in those tests. Therefore you need a good clean to get faster and jump higher.”