Athletes Options For Olympic Lifts By Wil Fleming Coaches everywhere, and a great percentage of coaches at that, choose to use some type of Olympic lift in their training of athletes. Typically this Olympic lift is a power clean, starting from the floor. While this is appropriate for plenty of athletes, there are multiple variations in the starting position, that it can be hard to determine which is the right place to start. So lets take a look at the advantages and disadvantages of some of the variations in start position. Floor Start Position .. More »