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This is episode 134 of the Squat University podcast.

To go with each and every one of these shows is to bring you as much value-pat content to help you move better in the gym and in life, decrease your bodies, aches, and help you reach your true athletic potential. On today's episode, I sit down with Olympia and Chad Vaughn, and we share some tips to help you blow up your Olympic lifts. So if you're a weight lifter, a crossfitter, or just someone who loves to lift the snatch in the clean and drink, and you want to enhance your technique quality and the weight that you can lift, this episode is for you. So without further ado, let's get into the show. Hey, what's up, everyone? Thank you so much for joining to Squat University podcast. I'm once again joined by two-time Olympian Chad Vaughn. Today, we're going to be talking about how to blow up your Olympic lifts. There's a very key and magical

concept that you can use within your own training to enhance your Olympic lifting. That's a little

bit different than what you may think.

It's not necessarily an assistant exercise that you're going to use in your training in hopes that it will transfer over into better clean and jerks and snatches,

but actually a way you can manipulate the variables within your own training.

So I'm going to let Chad take it away from here and yeah, enjoy.

Yeah, absolutely.

Back in the day, we called these clusters and not clusters in clean into a thruster. That's a movement that a lot of people are familiar with, especially coming from CrossFit, but clusters

in that these are clusters of single reps, usually in five reps that you're going to do to really allow

yourself to accumulate reps within higher percentages.

Higher percentages, meaning, you know, somewhere around 75 to 85%, usually maybe a little bit

higher than that, but that rep range there where there's a lot of magic to be had

in gaining strength within the Olympic lifts, specifically, the snatch and the clean and jerk,

really allowing you to try to transition all the other strength work that you've been doing in

squats, dead lifts, presses into the Olympic lifts. And this is a great way to do it.

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