It is a speed and strength exercise thus training your body to move faster to get the lift completed. You can’t do this exercise slowly as we started earlier. Increased Speed – Overall body speed is required to get the weight up to the catch position. The nice thing about power cleans is they work the entire body and getting strong at power cleans means you have a good overall body strength particularly in the posterior chain If you can power clean over 300 you are a strong person even if it is the only lift you ever train. Increased Strength – Power cleans are an underrated strength exercise. You must go fast thus the perfect power-building exercise is the power clean. Have you ever seen anyone do a power clean slowly? Me either, you can’t, it’s impossible. The power clean is the perfect exercise for power because you need to move the weight quickly in order to execute the lift. So basically, power is the combination of strength and speed together. An example of strength would be how much weight you can deadlift while an example of power is how fast you can deadlift an amount of weight. Many people think power is the same thing as strength, but it’s not. Increased Power – Power cleans are easily one of the best exercises there is out there for increased power. There are many benefits to doing power cleans that can help all athletes as well as weekend warriors and even fitness nuts. They are also one of our best exercises to give you an athletic body let’s move on and talk about some of the benefits that make power cleans worthwhile. Nearly all athletes can benefit from cleans and should be doing them. The power clean is also one of those exercises that is just fun to do, not to mention it makes you feel like a bit of a badass throwing the weight around like that, especially if you are strong at it and can use a good amount of weight. Not to mention they would look pretty sweet in that golf gear being all swole. Even golfers would improve their game and certainly hit the ball farther if they would start doing power cleans as part of their training. I would bet just about every athlete from every sport out there could benefit from doing power cleans. If you play a power sport like football, wrestling, MMA, lacrosse or rugby then power cleans should be part of your workout routine.