Strongman Log Clean & Pressing
It never ceases to amaze me how many sports and strength coaches think that they need to teach their athletes the incredibly technical skill of The Olympic Clean & Press! These well meaning coaches sometimes forget that exercises like the Clean & Jerk as well as The Snatch are OLYMPIC EVENTS!! — The men and women who receive the greatest benefit from executing these movements have generally spent several years, sometimes decades learning how to perfect their skills. Also, I have discovered that in order for our training programs to be effective, they have got to be FUN. No 16 year old football player, who is full of “piss and vinegar” is going to want to stall his strength efforts in order to “learn” how to execute a lift. He wants to “hit it hard… NOW”, and within the bounds of safety, it is our responsibility to let him go for it! This is why I love Strongman Training so much. The movements we use are very functional, based on “Primal Movement Patterns”, create incredible strength and explosive capacity AND it fun to do. Among several substitutions for Olympic Lifting movements like the clean and press is The Strongman Log Clean & Press. This movement requires very little skill but a SH*T LOAD of Attitude! Also, it puts such an immense demand on the bone and muscle tissue that it literally forces the body to release a flood of testosterone and other naturally produced anabolic hormones directly into your blood stream. Below is a video of me doing Log Clean & Presses with over 300 lbs. I move lots of weight with this movement, granted that I am a Professional Strongman 
. If you see me lifting like this and are thinking to yourself, “there is NO WAY that my that my young, skinny punks will EVER clean and press like that” — please rest assured that my athletes use about 1/4 of the weight displayed here and are usually performing sets of 5 reps.
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Elliot you would soo kick Wolverine’s ass. Hugh Jackman needs to fall back. Log press : (
I REALLY should have bought a cage/rack for my apt when my wife gave me the chance way back when.
Can you imagine a rack in a Bronx apartment…lol
peace dawg
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Now that’s how a motherf*ckin man trains! By far and away my favorite exercise of all time.
Awesome job, man.
Jason Ferruggia
http://www.JasonFerruggia.com
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How is that in any way possible healthy for your back?
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Elliot,
Huge presses man. Congrats on the recent strongman pro card!
The log clean and press is the shit.
Chase Karnes
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I love the ability to be explosive without the mastering the technical. Good Stuff Elliot.
Jimmy
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Elliot, that was bad ass. When most folks would have called it a day after 335lbs. You pushed through to 345lbs. That was inspiring in its simplicity (the mere fact of pushing through.
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You are a monster dude! I agree about powercleans for young athletes…in the right teaching environment, they’re a good exercise, but most of the time stuff like sandbag loading, log clean and presses, tire flips, sled dragging, etc not only require almost 0 learning curve, but are way more fun. Keep crushing it!
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@ Andy – hmm? I wouldn’t make claims that what I did with that heavy log is “healthy” for my back… but I nor any of my athletes have ever had any problems doing it.
You DO need quite a bit of core strength the be able to handle this though.
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Thats quite a show you put on. I will agree that the Olympic lifts do require quite a bit of training as I am an Olympic wieghtlifter. Many atheltes don’t have the time or interest in learning them, I can also understand this. But, they are the MOST powerful lifts in the world. Look at any Olympic weightlifter, just damn explosive power, period. There are also always alternatives as well which I have seen on your blog. The log clean and press your doing is more hardcore strength than power, but none the less inmpressive. I als agree not very healthy for the back Keep pumping it out.
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Thanks for clearing that up for me I was hating on it, that makes sense. Looks like an awesome workout, Ive never used logs before, I guess I need some background info.
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Gotta love raw power!!
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How is this good for the back?? How about great job you just made your back stronger!
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