Power Jerk

Legs · Barbell

How to do it

Bar in the jerk rack position on your front delts. Feet under your hips. Dip a few centimetres keeping your torso upright and reverse hard to send the bar up; **drop under by stepping your feet out to the sides and bending the knees**, receiving it with straight arms, then stand to finish. Unlike the split jerk, your feet stay parallel here: it is simpler to learn. The classic mistake is sending your hips back on the dip: the torso drops straight down.

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: Core, Calves, Glutes, Shoulders, Triceps

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