Cluster
A squat clean from the floor that goes straight into a thruster: stand out of the catch and press the bar overhead in one drive.
How to do it
Setup
Bar over mid-foot, clean grip, back flat, feet hip-width.
Steps
- Clean the bar from the floor and catch it on the shoulders in a full squat.
- Drive up out of the squat and use that momentum to press the bar overhead.
- Lock out overhead, then lower the bar to the shoulders and to the floor.
Common mistakes
Pausing in the bottom before the press: the drive out of the squat launches the bar. Elbows dropping in the catch: keep them high so the bar stays on the shoulders. Leaning back at the lockout: ribs down, the bar over the middle of the foot.
Breathing
Big breath at the floor, hold it through the catch, exhale at the lockout.
