Snatch

Snatch

Skill Tree

Muscles

Technique

  1. Stand with the feet hip width apart and the bar over the middle of your feet. Bend your knees and hips to grab it with a wide overhand grip, back flat and arms straight.
  2. Drive through the legs to lift the bar off the ground, keeping it close to your body.
  3. Once the bar passes your knees, explosively extend your hips, knees and ankles, shrug and pull the elbows high and outside.
  4. Pull yourself under the bar and catch it overhead with locked arms in a deep squat.
  5. Stand up with the bar overhead, then bring it back down.

Form tips

  1. The arms never press the bar up: the hips launch it and you pull yourself under it.
  2. Keep the bar close to your body during the whole lift.

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