Have you ever been told that the best way to improve a skill is to do just that skill? It makes some sense. If you want to improve your squat, squatting more frequently is going to be a lot more beneficial than doing leg extensions or leg presses. What happens, however, when you have a weakness that isn't addressed in the exercise you're trying to improve? Let's just say, as an example, that your hamstrings aren't as strong as the rest of your lower body (i.e., quad-dominance). So when you squat you shift forward coming out of the bottom position. Doing more squats won't fix this problem. Your quads will just compensate and carry the load that your hamstrings should be taking. Now is the time to train our weaknesses.
How does this apply to the Olympic lifts? Maybe we have good hips and can dive quickly under a clean of 100 lbs., but we can't front squat 100 lbs. Is doing more cleans going to help us stand up with the weight? Eventually it will, but not as quickly as if we focus on the weakness.
Train smarter to train harder.
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