Exercise library / Legs
Clean and jerk
Legs · Barbell
Sets, reps and RIR
Sets3 to 5
Reps4 to 8
RIR1 to 3
A heavy multi-joint lift with free weights. Keep a rep or two in reserve on most sets so technique holds.
RIR means reps in reserve: how many you could still have done when you racked it. RIR 2 is two short of failure.
Muscles worked
Primary: Glutes, Quads.
Secondary: Front delts, Traps, Lower back.
Estimate your one-rep max
Epley's formula, from a set you have actually done. It is an estimate, and it drifts above eight reps, so keep the input between one and twelve.
Enter a set to see the estimate.
What it is called elsewhere
- Norwegian Støt
- Swedish Stöt
- Danish Stød
- German Umsetzen und Stoßen
- Spanish Cargada y envión
- Italian Slancio
- Portuguese Arremesso
- Russian Толчок штанги
- French Épaulé-jeté
Related legs exercises
- Goblet squat
- Bulgarian split squat
- Lunges (dumbbells)
- Walking lunges
- Step-ups
- Single-leg Romanian deadlift
athlate logs this exercise, keeps the numbers, and tells you what you lifted last time.