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You Lean Forward on the Dip

The fault

The chest travels forward during the dip, which sends the bar out of position before the drive.

Why it happens

The dip is the whole jerk. A dip that goes anywhere but straight down means the drive is fighting the bar's momentum instead of adding to it.

The fix

Straight down and straight up. Keep the torso vertical through the dip so the drive puts the bar back into the slot over the middle of the body.

About this fix
Originally published as "Jerk More Weight", 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

I'm Danny from The Lifting Fix and I have Kevin with you today. Kevin's from Lid Mentally Tough, so a brand out of Alaska. He's brought him out, getting outside, doing some fishing stuff. He's our fitness out there.

It's really cool. They're done visiting us and he needs some work on his jerk. Alright, so the problem that we kind of talked about is when he goes to jerk sometimes. or when people jerk in general, they tend to lever forward.

That's really not ideal. When you jerk along the bar, go straight up and down. You lever forward a lot of times, kind of causing you to push it up front, and all kinds of other kind of issues, all right? So go ahead and let's see what we've got.

So you can see there as you turn the dirt, it's kind of actually leaning forward a little bit. Oh, Sarah, who's driving up front. So to fix that, I'm going to put a barrier in there for him. All right, give him some feedback there.

So I'm just grabbing the PVC pipe, nice and handy, or broomstick, whatever you got. And I'm just going to go hold it right there. So it's just in front of the bar. So if he starts to inform and he did, he feels that, he's hitting that PVC, he kind of gets that feedback.

But if he does it straight down, he's in the clear. So go ahead and do a couple of turns now. There we go, and a shower again. So if you have a problem, I know some of them will probably pour the dip, get a juicy pot, make sure you get that straight up and down and you'll get that fixed up right away.

Alright? Thank you Kevin, thank you Zach, Mr. Cawlinger, and thanks a lot.

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