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Okay, now, real Ethan Lamana through Instagram asks,

what change in stress will result when using a clean versus a power clean in the Texas method?

Well, that's an interesting question.

The question really is why do we use the power clean

instead of the clean, what is called the full squat clean

or just the clean in Olympic weightlifting talk.

We use the power clean because the pull has a longer range of motion.

And for our purposes, we would like to train a longer range of motion.

We don't want to cut off the range of motion because you don't have to pull a bar as high

to squat under it to catch it and then front squat it back up as you do if you're going to

catch it at the top of the pull which is a power clean I don't hold to this nonsense about

calling anything that's caught above parallel a power clean.

I think that's just stupid.

I think obviously a power clean is when you catch it at the top.

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