Crazy-Time Power Cleans With Jesse Ward

When it comes to the clean, it’s all about fully opening the hips. In other words, “violently extend the hip,“ says Jesse Ward, a member of CrossFit’s Level 1 Seminar Staff and a coach at CrossFit Lynnwood in Washington state. To drive home the point, he has athletes throw medicine balls backward. It’s a simple but creative drill the ebullient Ward uses to help athletes identify and focus on one critical part of the clean. You can usually find a host of form errors in any lifter, and Ward is s