Power snatch vs squat snatch

The power snatch runs at 80–85% of your squat snatch and the squat snatch at 100%. Both train finishing the pull and getting under it. Here they are moving next to each other, with everything snatchlike prescribes each one for.

Power snatch

80–85% of your snatch

The same lift, caught above parallel — nowhere to hide a lazy finish.

Same lift, caught above parallel. Punishes a lazy finish, because there is nowhere to hide a bad one.

Watch for: The hips fully open before the feet move, and a catch above parallel that is locked the moment it lands.

Squat snatch

100% of your snatch

Floor to overhead, received in the bottom of the squat.

The whole lift, floor to overhead, caught in the bottom. Everything else on this list exists to make this one heavier.

Watch for: The bar staying close past the knee, the hips opening all the way before you drop, and a catch that lands over the middle of the foot.

Both at half speed, on one clock.

Each figure is the same six points the video read judges. The disc is the hands: the detector sees hands, not a barbell, so the bar is wherever the wrists are.

How heavy

The squat snatch is the heavier of the two: its whole band, 100%, sits above the power snatch's 80–85%. Both are percentages of your squat snatch, and both are conventional coaching bands rather than anything measured here: where to start on a drill you have never done, before the bar tells you the rest.

In kilos for your snatch: the power snatch · the squat snatch

What each one trains

Both	Only the power snatch	Only the squat snatch
finishing the pull and getting under it	nothing the other does not	catching low and holding it overhead

The faults each one fixes

Cutting the finish · the power snatch
Finish tall, then move — you cannot pull under a bar you have not sent up.

Where the planner uses each

The power snatch is not in any of the sessions the planner writes. It is in the library for you or a coach to choose.
The squat snatch: main lift at 88% of your snatch in a snatch session for catching high; main lift at 88% of your snatch in a snatch session for a slow turnover; main lift at 88% of your snatch in a snatch session for when your technique is ahead of your legs; main lift at 88% of your snatch in a snatch session for when nothing is out of line.

Both on one bar

Power snatch + squat snatch (70–80%) — a complex is held to the hardest thing in it.

Which one do you need?

That depends on what is capping your snatch, and that is a question your numbers answer. Put in three you already know — your snatch, and any of your power snatch, overhead squat and back squat — and snatchlike names the limiter and writes the session for it. A lift you have not tested is left out rather than guessed. Or film one snatch from the side: the pose model runs in this browser tab and the video never leaves your device.

Put in three numbers → Film one snatch →