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[–]kwallio 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

clean and press

Also weightlifters were breaking their backs and becoming paralysed from doing this lift.

[–]FlippyKing 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I did not know that part of it! Wow, I can see why they'd want to scrap it instead of fix it. The Strength Lifting version is taken off a squat rack standing, and the form required is strict-- no standing bench press. The form is the one taught by, and here is where I end up sounding like a broken record, Mark Rippetoe as (I'm pretty sure) Strength Lifting is sort of his idea.