Power clean the bar, then ride a thruster straight overhead.
Use the leg drive out of the squat to launch the press in one fluid motion.
This complex strings a power clean into a front squat and drives straight through into an overhead press, so your quads power both the pull and the squat while your shoulders and glutes carry the finish overhead. The magic is the transfer, the leg drive out of the squat launches the bar so the press is a punch rather than a grind. Few barbell movements pack this much work into a single rep.
A regular thruster starts from a rack or with the bar already at the shoulders, this one starts on the floor, so every rep opens with a power clean. It adds a pull and makes the whole rep longer and more expensive.
Just long enough to settle the bar in the front rack and take a breath. Rushing from a sloppy catch straight into the squat is how reps get dumped forward.
Your limit is the overhead finish, not the clean, so load for the press. A weight you can thruster crisply for all reps beats one you can clean but grind overhead.
