Description
- With your hands placed on the bar at hip width, set up with your back straight, chest up, and torso tight.
- Keep your arms straight and maintain your shoulders over the bar.
- Pull the bar off the floor in a controlled manner, still keeping the shoulders over the bar.
- Once the bar moves above the knees, forcefully extend the body to accelerate the bar onto the shoulders.
- Once you receive the bar on your shoulders, press the bar over your head.
- Lower the bar carefully onto your upper back, to assume the back-squat position.
- With the bar on your upper back, descend by bending your hips and knees, keeping the weight on your heels.
- Rise back up to the top.
- Press the bar over head again and return it carefully to resting.
- This is a high skill exercise. Please seek the guidance of a USAW Certified Olympic Weightlifting coach for further instruction.
Mistakes
- At set up: chest not held higher than hips, and hips not held higher than knees
- While pulling the bar off the ground: allowing the hips to come up first.
- Using the arms instead of the legs to accelerate the barbell onto the shoulders
- While pressing the bar overhead: Using too much arms and not enough legs
- While squatting: rounding the back and/or letting the knees buckle inward
Muscle Groups
- Abs & Core
- Full Body
- Hips & Buttocks
- Legs
- Upper Body
Purposes
- Leg power and strength
- Glute power and strength
- Hip power and strength
- Torso strength and stabilization
- Upper body power and strength
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