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You Jump Forward

The fault

Landing a step in front of where you started.

Why it happens

Jumping forward is usually blamed on the feet. It is normally a lat problem: without back tension the bar gets in front, and the body follows it forward to stay under the load.

The fix

A drill that puts tension exactly where it is missing, in the lats. Fix the tension and the feet stop needing to chase the bar.

About this fix
Originally published as "Stop Jumping Forward", 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

Welcome to the Limp Team Fix, I'm Danny and I have Aaron with me. One problem that I was actually personally having earlier, it's pretty common, is not being tight where you should be in your back and so people tend to jump forward. So if you're a forward jumper, we have a fix for you. So Aaron's gonna demonstrate what we don't want to do.

So, I'm gonna clean this. He's a successful clean. He made the lift, but he jumped forward about, you know, whatever a foot. So we're gonna do these rows over here to kind of help out with that.

Alright? So we can set up, we'll get a bar, you can bench or whatever, you can stack some weights or some pulling blocks, whatever you do. grab the bar, he's going to first retract. All right, and then keep these elbows straight.

He's going to row it, but with straight arms. There it is. So notice he is not rowing like a bed of a room. That is not what we're going for.

We want to do a bend over row. We want to do a row with all the tension in our laps. We tighten there as we bring it back in, pull them straight into his hips. We're straight into where he would do this.

So practice that. Do you want two more? Good. One more.

There we go. So that's going to teach him how to get... tight when you need to get tight. Then when you're dressed the bar on the ground you want to set that back, set your lats and keep that tension throughout the lift.

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