Clean with two legs beside eachother or an single leg?

Expert Discussion Strength Training
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Can anyone explain to me what the difference in effect is between a clean with both legs beside eachother and a clean with one leg in front and the other one behind your body?

At my club in Eindhoven(The Netherlands), highjumpers and longjumpers do the one legged clean, sprinters do the two legged version. There’s nobody who can explain to me which version is better and why.

Every picture i have seen of a clean shows a two legged version. The people at my club that claim the one legged version is better seem to use a lot of old training techniques. Is this also something athletes used to do 15 years ago?

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This is an example of the technique I’m using. The two legged version I was referring to.

http://www.advantageathletics.com/snatch.html

Must I call it a clean or a snatch? All those new english terms are a bit confusing for me. :slight_smile: Excuse me

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The split clean is used by some throwers as well. Just works the lead leg more, something different I guess.

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In dutch we call it ‘trekken’, I bet you guys never heard of that :slight_smile: