Under the Bar
You Land on Your Toes and Touch a Knee Down
The fault
Receiving on the balls of the feet, sometimes with the front knee dropping to the floor.
Why it happens
Landing on the toes means there is no base under the catch. Everything above a bad base gets unstable, which is why the knee ends up on the ground.
The fix
A drill to land flat. Feet down, whole foot in contact, and the catch has something to be solid against.
About this fix
Originally published as "Land Solid" on 19 October 2015, part of The Lifting Fix, a free weekly weightlifting technique series Danny Lehr ran from June 2015 to December 2016. Every episode is free here and always will be. For the full structured course, see the professionally filmed program.
