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One piece at a time

Nick | 11/19/2014 | 3

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When most of us are first introduced to olympic weightlifting, the sheer complexity of the movements can be quite daunting and downright confusing.  We use drills often to help us clean up and focus on various aspects of each lift so as not to overwhelm our brains with too much to think about all at once.  Today’s complex will help us in such a way by allowing us to focus on the “up” and “down” parts of the snatch separately.
The muscle snatch will take care of the “up” for us.  Once we start this lift, the bar and our bodies only move upward. See the link below for a very detailed explanation, but this drill will help us make sure we’re fully opening our hips and getting a high and aggressive turnover with the elbows.
Once we lock that in, the overhead squats will allow us to focus on the drop in the snatch in a controlled fashion, building solid motor patterns that we can then rely on when we do a full snatch and are looking for maximum speed and explosiveness.
This is drill work – the weights will be limited by our ability to execute the movements with precision and consistency.  Pushing the load heavier than we can do these movements perfectly will only hinder our progress.
STR/SKL:
+
3x OHS
WOD:
AMRAP 16
100′ bear crawl (forward)
16 dumbell snatch
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3 comments for “One piece at a time”

  1. Olivia says:
    November 20, 2014 at 8:25 am

    STR: 90#

    WOD: 8+90′ @ 35#. Started out alternating the DB snatches to conserve energy, then switched to 4/4/4/4 for speed and efficiency in the later rounds.

  2. Niki Brown says:
    November 20, 2014 at 3:59 pm

    Kirsties snatch face is the best 🙂

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