Bar height in the lifts is a big determining factor to a successful lift. I often hear “Pull the bar as high as you can”. This cue I believe gives the wrong impression to newbie lifters. While it’s beneficial from the athletic perspective in the Power Clean, this cue doesn’t carry much weight to the squat clean or squat snatch for Olympic Weightlifters.
I like to teach my guys positioning, regardless if the bar has 60k on it or 120k, the bar height should still maintain. Your warm up sets and technique sets have one purpose, to have transfer over to your max lift. If you’re varying the height position you may not build up bar control/awareness and over pull the bar= bar crashes.
Take Alex for example, before he started training with Fusion Weightlifting, his focus used to be pull the bar as high & hard as possible.
While he has the strength and power to make this lift, you can see he tried to rip it up as high as possible.
Here he is after 6-7 months of training with Team Fusion- Alex focused on positioning of the bar through various drills, but the point is that he FOCUSED on pulling the bar to the correct height and then getting down FAST.
His new Clean and Jerk PR in training- 110k. In competition- 107k.