Your Lats Are Not Engaged, So the Bar Swings Out

How you doing everybody? Danny Lehr here with The Lifting Fix. Just got home from nationals, so my voice is a little bit rough. So bear with me.

And you may notice today, I'm by myself. I don't have something to demonstrate, but that's okay because you're here. All right, I have a lifter who has an issue. As the bar comes up, he never really gets...

it back. It just kind of comes up and he kind of throws himself into it, gets to his toes and lets himself get pulled forward and this whole thing. It's not good when you get the bar tight into the body so that we can finish, okay? It needs to stay close.

So there's a few different drills for that. The one we're doing today, pretty simple, band and the bar, okay? We're not going to get crazy. We're not going to load up the bar, we're going to stay on the empty bar and work without the band.

So I can come in here and get my statuette. And all I'm going to do is go through positions. Pulling my shoulders back and my lats tight. I can feel if I don't keep my lats tight, the bar is pulled away and I keep it there.

There's one, two down in the knee, to the floor. Back to that good position one. I can feel a left tight. Couple times through.

Knee, hit. Knee. Hit. All right.

Do that a few times through, you'll feel the tension in your lats. Take that over the platform, just do some high pulls, keeping your heels on the ground. After that, do a couple snatches and you should be ready to rock. That bar's gonna be getting behind your knees like it should.