All right, Danny Lehr here with The Lifting Fix. I have my friend Jeff Lund who's in town in Alaska. I'm working with on the clean and jerk. On the clean, he does a pretty good job and the jerk is making them, but he's having this issue.
He's getting forward and they're a little sketchy. So what's happening is when he starts to jerk, he just gets a little tosy and the bar's kind of straight up, but it's a little. borderline. So do what like Ken Wierdow.
So he's making it, the bar is behind his head, but his back leg is kind of straight, it's kind of forward, it's not really ideal. As the weight gets heavier, it's going to be an issue. So what we're going to have him do is, before he jerks, he's actually going to lean back, almost like he feels like he's going to fall backwards, and then complete his jerk. So he leans back.
Back, hands and you'll notice here, this back leg is bent, the bar is further back, this front shoe is vertical, you're in a better position. So if you have someone, or if you yourself have maybe a background in basketball, like Jeffrey does, and they kind of tend to get a little cozy, it's not that big of a deal, but as the bar is going straight and it's not really going back. A way to fix that. Lean back, almost so you feel it's gonna fall backwards.
And at that point... complete your jerk. If you look at some videos, some really high level lifters, there's this great jerk-er. People are really good at jerks.
For example, Spencer Borman does this kind of... You'll actually see as they did, they did, and they almost are moving backwards already as they're driving the bar. There's this week's The Lifting Fix.
