Talk:Clean and jerk

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I feel this article has a bias in it, as it completely disregards powerlifting in the following sentence: "When strength coaches and weightlifting coaches refer to weightlifting, they are speaking about either the snatch or clean and jerk and a large variety of ballistic movements associated with them. All other resistance training is weight training or bodybuilding." Maybe a less biased edit is in order?

Agreed. I removed the two sentences making that claim. The claim isn't that necessary for the article--if correct, it should be in the Weightlifting article (which it is at the time I'm writing this).MrVibrating 22:21, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

I think it would be a much better article if we could get a video of the lift. Also, a less biased version while maintaining that a lift based on moving a weight with speed (Olympic) versus lifting one where the weight can be moved as slowly as you want (like say, Bench Press or Squat) has an advantage in that it trains a person to move with speed.