Muscle Snatch

Legs · Barbell

How to do it

Bar at mid-thigh with a **very wide grip**, feet under your hips with toes slightly out. Extend hips, knees and ankles hard and, as the bar travels up, **take it overhead without dropping under**: the arms finish the job, pulling and then pressing. You end standing tall, no squat. With no low catch, it teaches you to pull high and hard. **Light weight.** The classic mistake is bending the knees to receive it: drop under and it is a power snatch.

Variants

The drawing shows one way of doing it, and the technique above describes that one. Almost every exercise has variants — standing or seated, the grip, the bench angle — and is still the same exercise: if you do it another way, write it in the exercise note and you will have it every time you train it.

Also works: Glutes, Back, Shoulders, Triceps

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