The reason power cleans aren't indicated in a lot of strength routines is because it's too hard to teach a lifter without a coach to do a power clean. Power cleans were originally prescribed in Bill Starr's original 5x5 iirc instead of deadlift because the power clean has more carryover to sports but it's too hard to teach to lifters who don't have a coach how to do one properly so it's fallen out of favor over the years.
@Docd187123 Is it true that if you lift your max effort lifts as fast and explosively as possible then you will also simultaneously train dynamic effort for these movements as well? I'm not sure where I heard this so it could be complete bs but some time ago supposedly the Soviet weightlifting team figured if you lift ME work as fast as possible, regardless of how fast the bar physically travels, you will also train the dynamic effort function of these lifts. Is this the case? If true, since SAID principle always applies, wouldn't this have more carryover to 1rm than doing speed work with a lower intensity?
I understand the other benefits of having a separate day for DE, it's another opportunity to train the movements with less intensity and therefore less fatigue, but if someone wanted to be completely minimalist, can they just get away with attempting to lift ME as fast as possible?
I am an explosive bencher and I can tell you for a fact "speed work" does absolutely nothing for my bench. I think if you aren't explosive by nature maybe speed work benching would be of benefit.
I move the bar as fast as possible on all of my warm up sets benching and bench frequently which provides more than enough "speed work".
Although I don't do a lot of "speed work" deadlifting I think it makes some sense to do even if you are an explosive puller given the toll deadlifting at relatively high percentages of your 1RM take on the CNS especially for us older guys.