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Contact Vs No-Contact Muscle Snatch

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Glen Asks: Can you compare the benefits, differences and uses for the no brush muscle snatch and the brush muscle snatch.    See these two videos for more on muscle snatch technique: The Muscle Snatch: Making It Effective Drills for a Better Muscle Snatch

Buddy Shoulder Stretches For The Snatch and Jerk

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Here are two great buddy stretches for those lame shoulders of yours. Remember - the goal here is to stretch, not rip the tendons off the bones. You won’t get more flexible faster by hurting yourself - it’ll actually do the opposite. Throw these in before and after training along with all your other rolling, dynamic ROM work and any other static stretches you do, like these: Shoulder Mobility for the Snatch and Jerk Underarm Stretch for Snatch, Clean and Jerk Mobility

Push The Bar Back In The Jerk

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Remember—the bar in the jerk should move backward slightly from its starting position. If you move it straight up, it’s too far forward, and your base is behind it rather than balanced directly under it.   The heavier the weight you’re jerking, the less ability you have to correct a bad trajectory. In other words, once a heavy weight is headed a certain direction—such as straight up, or if you’ve really screwed up, forward—it’s not changing signif

Is Contact Necessary In The Snatch?

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Tarang Asks: Wanted to ask you about the "explosion phase" of the snatch. Does one need to hit/contact the bar at the end of the pull or just shrug up? I been trying to correct my pull under. A hit kind of forces the bar forward for me while just a shrug up might not get it high enough. See these videos also: Hip Contact in the Snatch Leg Drive in the Snatch

Snatch To Clean and Jerk Ratio

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Shawn Asks: I was wondering if you could talk a little in one of your Q and A videos about gap in weight between the snatch and C and J. I am only about a year in training specifically for weightlifting. I am a masters athlete and my current numbers are best snatch 72kg and best C and J is 113kg. Which is a 41kg gap between. It is frustrating because I know I am strong enough to put the weight overhead but technically trying to close this gap. Thanks.   See more in this article

Weightlifting Training After A Layoff

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Roberta Asks: How would you manage a percentage based program after coming back from either a long lay off or injury recovery? Meaning what if the program says doubles at 80% of a snatch and your best snatch is in NO way something you can do currently.

Get Control and Focus for Technique in Weightlifting

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You’re probably bad at more than one thing when it comes to your weightlifting technique. That’s not a value judgment, it’s just a fact I’m pretty confident in due to many years of coaching. You’re in good company (mostly).   The problem with this aside from the obvious is that you find yourself about to lift, or during a lift, with your mind spinning out of control trying to organize all of your thoughts and cues and points of focus, and wind up doing none o

Should You Wear A Belt And When?

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Eryn Asks: When should you use a belt? I can definitely lift a bit more when I do belt up (all squats and jerks) but is there any detriment to your core development by doing so?

Some Thoughts About COVID-19 and Weightlifting

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So there’s this coronavirus thing going around right now. I’m not sure if you’ve heard about it…   All joking aside, can you believe this? I’m 47 years old, and I’ve never experienced anything like it. I never thought I’d see something bigger than 9/11, but here we are.   I’m not going to make this article a comprehensive look at COVID-19. You’re all getting that every day on the news. In a nutshell, the world has been turned u

Fix Uneven Feet In The Snatch Or Clean

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Do your feet land unevenly in the snatch or clean?   First of all, STOP PANICKING… It’s really not that big of a deal.   Next, work on your hip flexor strength and balance. Perform knee ups mimicking the squat motion and position—keeping your back arched and abs tight, lift your knees up and out into the same angle you squat in, and keep the soles of your feet parallel with the floor.   Do these both slowly and quickly, but in both cases with an isometric


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