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Your Snatch Is Inconsistent From the Power Position

The fault

Looping the bar and hitting a different position every rep.

Why it happens

Consistency lives in position one. If the power position is slightly different each time, the finish is different each time, and the catch is a guess.

The fix

An easy correction to the power position that makes the same lift repeatable. Fix the position and the loop goes with it.

About this fix
Originally published as "How to Get More Consistent in the Snatch", part of The Lifting Fix, the free weekly technique series Danny Lehr started filming over a decade ago. He gave every episode away then, and they are still free here. Danny Lehr competed in Olympic weightlifting from 2010 to 2019 and won the 2019 Masters World Cup. More about Danny Lehr.
Transcript

You don't say why, you just point. All right, so Frank has a little problem with looping the bar. Danny, by the way, we heard The Lifting Fix, cranking cross-fitting self. So it's probably looping the bar, and a lot of that stems from his position.

One, it's not very good. Just go ahead and grab the bar, Frank. The wind's prank snatches. All right, when he's practicing position, he's kind of leaning.

back here. That is not good. What that's going to do, that's going to put more weight towards the front of his foot and then when he goes through finish, it's also going to set the bar up and around. It's not good.

It's going to cause a problem missing behind or kind of moving in. To get it more consistent, we need a more vertical bar path. To do that, he's going to get a vertical position one. Like his back is against the wall.

Alright, now from this position his weight is back on his heels more so he goes to finish. He can finish up instead of out just by punching his knee through the floor. Go ahead and go. go much more vertical bar pound.

So one way to think of this is like a push press, you want to be straight down not leaning back to the bottom of the push press position. Mimics this, another way to stand against the wall to make sure your shoulders and hips are both against that wall. So a bad example one more time is leaning back too much, weights forward, gonna loop it. If he's nice and vertical, he can punch through, put his weight on his full foot.

Alright, one more time. Here we go, nice vertical bar tap.

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