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You Cannot Find the Strong Overhead Position on Your Own

Coaching by Danny Lehr with Garret Fisher1:37
The fault

Not knowing what a reliable overhead position feels like when nobody is watching.

Why it happens

A coach can put you in the right spot. Finding it yourself, mid-session, with nobody there, is a different skill and it is the one that matters on most training days.

The fix

Garret Fisher's drill for locating that strong overhead position solo. Self-check, no coach required.

Guest coach
Garret Fisher

This fix was filmed with Garret Fisher. See every episode they appear in.

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About this fix
Originally published as "How to Simplify Overhead Feat. Garret Fisher", 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

We're going to do a couple of exercises. come here do a little rotating up and then pushing up and really gauging the traps to hold back okay and so that's a great position it's really strong position for him to get in to do one or two more presses now Garrett. So, we're going to have to get into that good strong, low rep position. Alright, right there.

Very good. Okay. Now go ahead and put the bar down. The problem is that I don't get a word for Chara very often, but each of that often.

And so he's going to then have a tran on his own and he's going to kind of feel it, but it's not the same as having someone actually get in there and grab your arm. So what we're going to really like now is a way you can feel that on your own if you don't have any coach who's physically touching you and fixing you. So you stick his hands out front and then pull his shoulders back as strong as he can and then guiding it with the pinkies, leading with the pinkies, he's just going to pull back into a good overhead position. Okay, good.

Now in this position here, he has that rotation. He's pushing up and he's locked in exactly how he should be. Alright, so you just do that a couple times. You can shake it out and again forward, pull back and then leading with the PCs in that good strong overhead position keeping his scab back together.

Alright, so on your own you can still feel like you're in a very good position. YEET.

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