Personal Trainer Certification

Barbell Complex

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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