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How to Learn the Snatch: A Step-by-Step Progression
Learn the snatch in stages: grip, positions, top-down drills, pulls and your first loading plan, with sets, reps and a weekly practice schedule.
Guides
Training guides
Research-backed olympiclifting guides you can turn into a program in the builder.
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Olympic Weightlifting Program for Beginners
A beginner Olympic weightlifting program: how often to train, which lifts to start with, what percentages to use and a sample 3-day week you can run.
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Snatch to Clean and Jerk Ratio: Find Your Weak Link
What a normal snatch to clean and jerk ratio is, how your squats compare, and how to use the numbers to choose the right lifts for your next training block.
From the guides
"The clean pull, snatch pull, hang high pull, jump shrug, and mid-thigh pull are weightlifting pulling derivatives that can be used in the teaching progression of the full weightlifting movements and are thus less complex with regard to exercise technique."
Timothy Suchomel, Paul Comfort and Michael Stone, Weightlifting Pulling Derivatives: Rationale for Implementation and Application, Sports Medicine, 2015