Exercise guide
Power Snatch.
- Equipment
- Barbell
- Movement
- Compound
- Level
- Intermediate
Muscles at work
Make every rep count.
- 01
Start with the bar over the knot of your shoelaces (close to your shins, but not touching). Feet shoulder-width, toes slightly out, hands in a wide snatch grip.
- 02
Set your start position: hips down, chest up, eyes forward, arms long and relaxed, weight balanced through mid-foot.
- 03
Initiate the pull by pushing the floor away. Keep the bar tight to your body as your knees move back to clear the bar.
- 04
When the bar passes your knees, bring your knees back under you into a strong power position (torso tall, bar close at the thighs).
- 05
Explode upward: jump straight up and shrug hard, keeping the bar traveling close and vertical.
- 06
As the bar rises past your face, turn the bar over by flipping your wrists and rotating your elbows under so the bar moves smoothly overhead.
- 07
Punch to lockout and drop into a quarter squat to receive it. Catch with elbows locked, shoulders active, bar stacked over mid-foot.
- 08
Stand tall to finish the rep.
- 09
To reset: bring the bar back down under control—unlock the elbows, rotate the wrists back, guide it to the hip crease, then lower to the floor and repeat.





