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Originally Posted by cha59
Its interesting to me that you feel like WLing is helping with your issue. I feel like PLing is helping with a lot of my issues, including the neck, and I couldnt do a power clean if my life depended on it due to mobility issues.
Maybe it's simply because WL forces you to spend much more time on working on that flexibility and mobility in order to get in the proper positions. Shoulders, upper back, hips. Without that ability, you could hardly begin training properly, let alone putting more weight on the bar. (For example, throwing a weight overhead is already hard, but without the proper flexibility you would barely be able to begin trying.)
Whereas almost anyone is capable of benching and deadlifting, and hip flexibility for squats is rarely a big problem - so it's much more accessible (less demanding) and people can continue to do it even with a ton of imbalances that don't immediately stop them from doing the lifts.
Writing this suddenly kind of made me realize that perhaps, olympic style weightlifting is a sport that requires you to work on flexibility and mobility FIRST (or at least prioritize it in the beginning), and is needed quite abit in order to begin proper training. Whereas powerlifting you can almost always just start immediately, and problems areas are discovered later on - and then treated along the way (or not). And, by that point in time maybe already exaggerated and harder to overcome.