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Why does conventional weight-lifting lend itself to injury?

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Why does conventional weight-lifting lend itself to injury?

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• Power cleans should not be attempted without a full core strengthening program as the foundation. • Power cleans are too “linear”. What sport requires only linear up and down movement? • Power cleans place undue pressure on the shoulders, elbows and wrists and back. • Coaches use power cleans as a method of evaluating power, which forces athletes to lift weight beyond their capabilities and risk injury. • Power cleans do not provide avenues for rotational force that involve the feet, hips, shoulders or arms that duplicate integrated sports movement. The speed of muscular contraction diminishes as the load increases, which means that heaviest is not the best for optimum athleticism. The best athletes don’t necessarily have the biggest muscles or lift the heaviest weights, but produce the greatest force, by utilizing high speed of muscle contraction, elastic energy (the relaxing of the extended muscles along with the contraction of the moving muscles) and neuromuscular efficiency- coor

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