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CrossFit uses the medicine-ball clean as a gateway movement into learning the barbell clean. The movement patterns mimic those found in the clean, and also are an analogue for the day-to-day movements that require bringing an object from the ground to a position of support.

Watch as CrossFit Seminar Staff trainer Eric O’Connor demonstrates a progression for the medicine-ball clean.