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Your Weight Gets to Your Toes Too Early

The fault

Shifting onto the front of the foot well before the finish.

Why it happens

Early weight shift is a balance error that shows up as a bar path error. You feel it at the catch, but it happened at the knee.

The fix

A simple progression of pull to waist, then high pull, then full lift. Each step rehearses staying over the foot before adding the part that usually breaks.

Guest coach
AsianOLY

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About this fix
Originally published as "Virtual Fix with AsianOLY", 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

Everybody what's up? It's Danny from The Lifting Fix. We're doing something a little bit different today We're gonna do a virtual fix Asian only was kind enough to let me fix one of his lips So we're gonna take a look at that. We're gonna come back here I'm gonna give him a drill that'll help him out and set him down the right path.

All right, let's take a look So there's a lift. All right [static as I back that up. A lot of things go well here. It's a few things we really want to fix.

As he's going, you'll see as soon as he passes the knee is where he runs into his biggest problem. Just pass the knee and he immediately throws the hips forward and he's already in a trouble spot here. If we zoom in, we can actually see his foot. All of his weight is forward on the ball.

feet on his toes. And so that's going to cause some problems. And so he needs to do a better job of pushing through the full foot for a longer period of time. So you can see that as soon as it crossed the knee Boom, weight shifts forward onto the balls of his feet.

Okay, wanna put the full foot in there. All right, so that's how we So that all considers only take I think about 10 to 12 lessons. And so that all being, you know, under taking a consideration, he's doing a great job. So one thing that I really want to focus on, like I talked about, is the fact that he's getting to his toes, he's throwing his hips forward into the bar.

So I'm gonna give you a little drill now that'll help you push through your full foot for a longer period of time. help get that bar over towards the center of your foot longer so it won't pull you forward on heavier lifts. Alright, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to do a pool where they pause at the hip making sure my lats are tight pulling the bar into my hip in that position. pushing through my full foot still.

From there, I'm then gonna lower down to just below the knee and I'm going to do a high pull and then just below the knee for a snatch. Now what's important about that is on a focus, as I go past the knee, past the knee it is not me sliding my knees under immediately. I'm gonna continue to just push through the floor, push my feet through the floor. as I pass the knee.

Alright, full foot. So again, pause the hip. Okay, now a hang cycle. And now I hang his neck.

(b There we go. Agent Ollie, good luck with that. And I'll be sure to link to his Instagram and YouTube below so anybody can check him out. All right, thank you.

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