Danny Lehr here with The Lifting Fix got Ariana to help me out again we're going to talk about the jerk today a little bit I was talking to someone the other day about their jerk they kept driving up front and we were trying the different cues people were saying drive it back do this do that and I think she just kind of didn't understand what exactly we're trying to say some people are good visual learners some people are good with cues some people are good at just understanding if they understand why they need to do something then it makes a lot more sense and so we're just going to talk real quick about why when you jerk or
press you need to put it behind you it's she standing here if I go draw a line straight up I'll use this PVC pipe to demonstrate I go to the middle of her foot or the middle of her leg where we really want this bar to be if this thing is straight up and down we'll notice that it is not is actually slightly behind her ear all right I'm not pulling off the side it really is plum line straight down uh overhead is actually a little bit towards the back of her head if we go straight through her body so then she grabs the bar and puts it in the front rack position this where you grab it
very good can even know what she's doing all right so now if I draw the same thing right there middle of the foot you'll notice this is straight up and down the bar is actually in front of the pipe is in front of where it needs to be so when we say drive the bar back it's not that we want to behind you we see it overhead all right that's also why you can back squat more than your front squat all right now so so now she presses just do a press or push presses or jerks whatever we'll see the bar actually needs to be slightly behind her head so again straight up and down middle her foot
all the way up all right that is straight you'll see go straight up her arm to where the bar is that is why it needs to be behind her head all right so more than like a big fix of drills this that the other thing just an understanding of where it needs to be and where you should be will help with that a lot all right so when we say drive the bar back we don't mean way behind your head we can put it over your head just behind your ears is actually overhead there you go now your jerk is fixed now your jerk is fixed and now Mike hopefully your jerk is fixed you don't bomb out
