Heaving snatch balance
A snatch balance with the feet left exactly where they are. Dip, drive, drop — all of it in one stance, so nothing gets solved by jumping.
A bigger dip and a harder drive, with the feet left where they are.
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How heavy
85–100% 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 catching low, holding it overhead.
Side by side
- Snatch balance vs heaving snatch balance · against 95–105%
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More from overhead position and mobility
You cannot catch what you cannot hold. These build the lockout and the bottom position before there is any speed involved, and most of them are light on purpose.
- Snatch-grip press · 25–40%
- Behind-the-neck snatch press · 30–45%
- Sots press · 25–40%
- Overhead squat · 100–110%
- Paused overhead squat · 85–100%
- Snatch balance · 95–105%
- Drop snatch · 50–65%
- Snatch-grip push press · 45–60%
- Pressing snatch balance · 40–60%
- Snatch balance with a receiving pause · 85–95%
- Tempo overhead squat · 75–90%
- Overhead hold in the squat · 80–100%