"Stay over the bar as long as you can," says Olympic weightlifting coach Mike Burgener. In this video from April, 2008, Burgener talks about what you should and shouldn't do when cleaning a barbell from the floor.

In an earlier time, the push-up was largely regarded as a measure of a person's strength and fitness. In more modern times, much of this reputation has been passed on to the bench press, but the push-up’s passing misses the great opportunity to master a gateway movement to one of the most developmental progressions in all of fitness.