Exercise guide
Snatch.
- Equipment
- Barbell
- Movement
- Compound
- Level
- Intermediate
Muscles at work
Make every rep count.
- 01
Start with the barbell over the knot of your shoelaces (close, but not scraping your shins).
- 02
Set your stance shoulder-width, toes slightly out. Take a wide snatch grip.
- 03
Brace your core, drop your hips, lift your chest, and keep your eyes forward with a neutral spine.
- 04
Begin the pull by pushing the floor away. Keep the bar tight to your body as your knees move back to clear the bar.
- 05
When the bar passes your knees, bring your knees back under into a strong “power position” with your torso more upright.
- 06
Explode straight up (no swinging forward): extend hips/knees/ankles and shrug hard, keeping the bar close.
- 07
As the bar rises past your face, turn the bar over: rotate your wrists and punch your elbows under as the bar settles overhead.
- 08
Drop into a squat to receive it, catching the bar locked out overhead with active shoulders and the bar stacked over mid-foot.
- 09
Stand up to finish the rep.
- 10
To lower: control it down, bringing it back to the hip crease first, then to the floor (reset your start position each rep).





