Do you have problems holding snatches overhead? Do your shoulders ever feel unstable in the snatch receiving position? Try a behind neck press in squat stance with snatch grip. This exercise will make you strong and stable in that all-important snatch receiving position.
I haven’t always been this strong and healthy. Here are 10 things you didn’t know about my past life.
How to do pull ups to focus on back strength not just getting your chin over the bar at all costs! Pull ups are an incredible exercise for strengthening the back. If you focus on getting full engagement of your back muscles, you’ll have a stronger pull up in the long run.
Barbell complex for snatch technique. The 6 exercises focus on all the key positions in the snatch, allowing the lifter to drill correct body positioning, and transition from one position to the next. This complex can be done as a warm up for snatch, or as a standalone drill with a bar or stick.
Three exercises to strengthen the lower and middle traps. These muscles are important for stabilising weight overhead and for good posture.
Fail! Lots!
We’ve all heard the quotation, ‘you must fail in order to succeed’. But really think about this for a second.
What happens when you attempt to do something new? Chances are, you’ll fail it the first time, if you are doing it properly. This is because the correct technique takes practise. However, the more you try, the closer you get to success.
Continuing our series of videos on how to practise your olympic lifting in a commerical gym, we demonstrate a snatch drill and a jerk drill.
In this series of videos I will be demonstrating exercises you can safely do in a commercical gym environment to help you learn and improve the olympic lifts: the snatch and the clean and jerk. In part 1, I take you through the overhead squat and the front squat.
Many women can find the gym daunting enough as it is, and that’s before even stepping foot into the weights room. Whether you are new to free weights or have been training for years, it is still easy to feel out of place when the majority of the population in the weight area are male. […]
I’m all for female empowerment, but all of this ‘I can out-lift the blokes at the gym’ or ‘My girlfriend can out-lift you’ talk frustrates me.