I am a 17 year old athlete, almost 6´1 and 157 pounds. High jumped 6ft off no training in 2006, started year 2007 doing distance cycling for three months, then switched back to track again. Trained for 3 months, my bw went from 143lb to 154, yet externally I am the same skinny kid as you can see in the picture. At the beginning july got a non track related injury which left me out for 4 months.
I am training now since january uneventful and also started lifting in january (no previous experience ).
My “problem” is the ratio between my deep squats and my power cleans. I am able to clean 1rm at 176lb (5rm at 154lb), while deep squatting 3x176lb is a complete nightmare, and front squatting 3x154lb the same. Since I am a total beginner I am doing a progressive overload on both lifts so that the ratio remains the same. My bench press 1rm is at 150lb now.
I have pretty long legs and arms and am fairly skinny but have really wide shoulders. It annoys me that my squat sucks so much, yet I am cleaning almost the same (1rm ratio perhaps at 1.1). I bet that if I could do full cleans properly I would be moving the same weights as in full squats.
On the other hand I have some interesting results on the track. I am running fairly consistent 30m at 4.2h from the blocks in trainers and recently ran 40m at 5.00 (deinterlaced video) on grass from reaction, 1:33 for the 600. I have also have some jumping abilities (14.7m l-l-l-l-r five bound test from standing, long jumped 5.9m from a 6 step (6 contacts) approach).
What does this mean? Should I focuse only in my squat (which sucks completely)?
This is a picture of mine (hope it helps):
Your long levers (arms/legs) are (theoretically) going to help you generate more power as shown by your 5 x 154# in clean. On the flipside, those long levers, are going to make deep squatting a pain in the butt.
Since your training age is so low right now, all things considered, it looks as though you are on the right track.
I would have somebody look at your clean technique though.