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The drills · The first and second pull

Deficit snatch pull

Stood on a plate, so the bar starts lower than it ever will on a platform. A longer first pull, done with the same patience.

The pull from a plate: the bar starts lower, and the rest is the same.

Playing at half speed, so the turnover is visible.

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Writing a program, or running a club site? Paste this into your page beside the line that names the drill, and your readers get it moving, with its band and the fault it fixes, and a link back here for the rest. No video, so nobody's face. To show the band in loadable weights, add ?snatch=80&units=kg to the address in it, with your lifter's snatch. Coaching a squad? Read the whole team sheet at once, with a link for each lifter.

How heavy

95–105% of your squat snatch — see it in kilos. That is a band, not a prescription: where in it you work depends on the day. It is a conventional coaching band rather than anything measured here — treat it as where to start on a drill you have never done, then let the bar tell you the rest.

It trains raw pulling strength, where the bar goes.

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More from the first and second pull

The bar on the way up, and the back that holds it there. These are the heaviest things in the library, because none of them ask you to get under anything.