Power snatch
Same lift, caught above parallel. Punishes a lazy finish, because there is nowhere to hide a bad one.
The same lift, caught above parallel — nowhere to hide a lazy finish.
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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
80–85% 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 finishing the pull, getting under it.
Faults this drill fixes
Cutting the finish
You are diving under before the pull is done. Misses are forward and the bar never gets high enough to be easy.
Finish tall, then move — you cannot pull under a bar you have not sent up.
Side by side
- Power snatch vs squat snatch · against 100%
- Muscle snatch vs power snatch · against 55–65%
In a WOD
- Randy · 75 power snatches for time, at 35–45% of your snatch
Rx or scale: the CrossFit snatch workouts at your snatch →
Find out whether this is what caps your snatch
Tell snatchlike three numbers you already know and it will name the thing actually capping your squat snatch — then write you a session that fits the time you have. There is nothing to sign into to use it.
Find out whether this is what caps your snatch →
Film a set of it as proof of work →
More from the lift itself
The two everything else is measured against. Every other drill on this page exists to make one of these heavier.
- Squat snatch · 100%