We do very little olympic lifting with our high school athletes.

They are a cool exercise but they are totally misused by uneducated sports coaches (usually football coaches that just do what they did in 1980)….

I see kids injured all the time from doing cleans and snatches.

They are too slow to build explosive strength. Olympic lifting is a strength speed sport. Remember bar speed is important because of the force velocity curve.. I did a video last year on that here: https://youtu.be/kO-dX02w5Ys

The kids rarely triple extend. The shoulders and wrists usually are mobile enough to execute it safely and it takes months to teach.

See how we train our athletes to be explosive and strong: