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Hips, Meet Bar: The Extension of the Snatch and Clean
Greg Everett
| September 9 2011 |
Training: Weightlifting
Some topics seem to generate more heat that others, and for some reason, the question of how a barbell should come into contact with the body during the snatch and clean seems to get some people extraordinarily wound up. I personally don’t lose any sleep over how anyone else lifts or teaches the lifts. I may agree or disagree, but I don’t let it upset me too much. The following will undoubtedly further upset the same people who are already upset.
In my humble opinion, there is mor......
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Hook Grip or Not Overhead in the Snatch
Greg Everett
| August 20 2011 |
Training: Weightlifting
A common question is whether or not a lifter should keep the hook grip overhead in the snatch. This is one of those issues that doesn''t have a simple answer: it depends. The main issue while holding a barbell overhead is stability: obviously the athlete needs to be able to support the weight. The hand and wrist need to be able to settle in under the weight of the bar to create a cradle that balances the weight properly and doesn''t cause injury. Lifters need to condition the joints over time to......
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Improving the Clean through a Better Turnover
Greg Everett
| August 12 2011 |
Training: Weightlifting
A lot more attention tends to be paid to the third pull or turnover of the snatch than the clean, likely because the consequences of poor execution tend to be more dramatic and obvious, but the turnover of the clean deserves its own share of attention. The timing and precision of the turnover in the clean can be the difference between a make and a miss, or can prevent the recovery from being so taxing that a subsequent jerk fails.
An idea I commonly talk about with my lifters is attempting to......
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Overhead Stability in the Snatch
Greg Everett
| June 17 2011 |
Training: Weightlifting
When an athlete has difficulty supporting the bar overhead in the snatch, it's natural to immediately assume there is insufficient strength and to address the problem with strength work. While this may often be the problem, or at least one part of it, there are other elements to consider that may be preventing the athlete from properly using what may be adequate strength. In some cases, these problems can be corrected very quickly and save everyone a lot of headaches.
When it comes to s......
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Strength Lifts and Classic Lifts for Weightlifting
Greg Everett
| May 7 2011 |
Training: Weightlifting
This discussion will not die, so I will poke at it a bit more. US weightlifters need to get stronger. This is the refrain repeated endlessly from many outside the weightlifting community. From inside the community, the response is essentially a unanimous agreement in principle - of course in a strength sport athletes need to get stronger. Where the argument really exists is with regard to what exactly that means and how to achieve it.
First, weightlifters compete in the snatch and clean &......
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Weightlifting Technique Drills & Training Lifts
Greg Everett
| April 29 2011 |
Training: Weightlifting
There seems to be a bit of discussion on technique training and strength training for weightlifters, and it's made me think of a couple points I want to clarify. First, how do you define a technique drill or a training exercise? In my opinion, the difference is based on the purpose, and a symptom is usually different loading and volume. We should also understand the difference between these two things and a learning/teaching drill.
A learning drill is an exercise intended to teach someone a ......
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Correcting Jerk Weaknesses
Greg Everett
| March 11 2011 |
Training: Weightlifting
Gerasimos Asks: Hello i want to ask a question about jerk training. When a lifter has a weak jerk (strength or technique) is better to perform jerk and assistance exercises in front or behind the head?
There are a huge number of possible causes for problems with the jerk. Since this question explicitly asks about both strength and technique, yet doesn't describe any specific issue, I'll try to cover both topics in a general sense without being so vague it's useless. Eventually I'll try......
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Predicting Snatch and Clean & Jerk 1RMs
Greg Everett
| February 18 2011 |
Training: Weightlifting
Iain Asks: What do you use as a predictor for a 1rm in the snatch and clean & jerk in training/ competition? (I know that there can be many many variables to consider)
This is an interesting question because there are no straightforward answers and a good number of opinions on how to approach it.
First let’s talk about training and then we’ll get to competition. For all the 1RM formulas out there, nothing works like actually performing a max lift. There is far too m......
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Grip Strength and Training for Weightlifting
Greg Everett
| November 26 2010 |
Training: Weightlifting
Grip for the snatch and clean is a topic very important to me personally as someone with relatively small hands. For most lifters my size, grip is not an issue because they tend to have fairly large hands and easily get better coverage on the bar. Even my lovely wife Aimee's fingers are almost as long as mine, and she gets to lift on a bar 3 mm smaller.
There are a million ways to train grip strength and related abilities and quite an array of movements and positions. However, if we're t......
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The Push Press: Use Your Legs
Greg Everett
| November 13 2010 |
Training: Weightlifting
An exercise I use very frequently both in training and teaching is the push press. The push press has tremendous utility in a multitude of senses and should definitely be a staple of any strength training program.
As an intermediary between the press and the jerk, the push press largely splits the difference and shares features of both the press and jerk. Interestingly (at least to me), I see the majority of people thinking of it strictly as an upper body movement, and being more closely rel......
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