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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Power Cleans vs. Strongman For Football

If you think that Olympic lifting and power cleans are the only way to get athletes faster and more explosive, then you haven’t looked outside the box.

Consider that a power clean is basically a “loaded jump”, your moving massive amounts of weight with an explosive triple extension.

Well, here are a list of other exercises performed with an explosive triple extension but are way more fun, safe and affordable than barbell Olympic lifting.

1. Tire Flips

2. Keg Loading

3. Stone Loading

4. Sandbag Loading

5. Medicine Ball Backwards Toss

Watch this video of Drayton performing a heavy sand bag load:

I’m pretty sure many of you have experimented with and have discovered other non traditional ways to get bigger, faster and stronger. -

I’d love to learn about them… post your best non-traditional exercises below.

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Have a great weekend!