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Free Weight · Barbell

Hang Clean

Muscles worked

  • Glutes
  • Lower Back
  • Quads
  • Hamstrings
  • Traps
  • Forearms
  • Calves

How to do it

  1. Stand holding the bar at your hips, then lower it to just above your knees with a flat back
  2. Jump explosively through your hips and knees and pull yourself under to catch the bar on your shoulders in a front squat
  3. Stand up

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