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Technique Primer






Coined by Greg Everett in Olympic Weightlifting: A Complete Guide for Athletes & Coaches. This is an exercise performed before a primary exercise to practice and reinforce certain technique points of the primary exercise.




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Liselotte Berglund
April 15 2016
What about the weight in technique primer? Should it be light or kind of heavy?
Light. This is to train and reinforce technique while avoiding fatigue.

Greg Everett
mike
July 19 2016
i have been trying to find what the technique primer actually is for the three lifts but i cant find it anywhere. what do they entail?
Here are a few technique primers for the Snatch: 
http://www.catalystathletics.com/exercise/217/Tall-Snatch/
http://www.catalystathletics.com/exercise/401/Dip-Snatch/
http://www.catalystathletics.com/exercise/316/Snatch-Long-Pull/
http://www.catalystathletics.com/exercise/96/Muscle-Snatch/

Clean:
http://www.catalystathletics.com/exercise/150/Tall-Clean/
http://www.catalystathletics.com/exercise/149/Muscle-Clean/
http://www.catalystathletics.com/exercise/371/Dip-Clean/

Jerk:
http://www.catalystathletics.com/exercise/218/Tall-Jerk/
http://www.catalystathletics.com/exercise/193/Jerk-Balance/

These are just a few, but you can find more on our exercise library here: http://www.catalystathletics.com/exercises/

You can choose a specific technique primer based on what you feel you need to work on most, and add these in as warm ups for the respective lifts. 

Alyssa Sulay
Luis Beza
September 22 2018
There is any technique primer list???
Alyssa listed several good ones right above your comment.

Greg Everett