Open Palm Kettlebell Clean

Legs · Kettlebell

How to do it

Kettlebell between your feet. Extend hips and knees to drive it towards your shoulder and catch it on your forearm **with an open palm**, fingers not closing on the handle. The bell is held by arm position, not grip. Lower closing your hand. Since you cannot hold it, the path has to be clean and the catch soft: it is the best diagnostic of whether your clean bangs or lands. **Light weight.** The classic mistake is squeezing the handle on instinct at the catch.

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

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