Snatch from blocks (knee height)
The second pull with the first one deleted. Heavy, honest, and it does not care how good your floor position is.
The second pull with the first one deleted.
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How heavy
90–95% 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, where the bar goes.
Faults this drill fixes
Jumping forward
Your feet travel and you finish a foot in front of where you started. The bar is always slightly out front.
Push the floor straight down — weight through the middle of the foot, not the toes.
Ripping it off the floor
It is fast to the knee and then nothing is left. The chest comes up first and the bar chases it.
Same speed to the knee, then explode — the floor is setup, not the lift.
Side by side
- Hang snatch, above the knee vs snatch from blocks (knee height) · against 85–92%
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More from position work
The whole lift, started or paused somewhere awkward, so a position you normally rush through has to be held instead.
- Hang snatch, above the knee · 85–92%
- Hang snatch, below the knee · 80–88%
- Paused squat snatch at the knee · 70–85%
- Slow-pull squat snatch · 65–80%
- Segment squat snatch · 65–80%
- Deficit squat snatch · 85–95%
- Snatch from low blocks (below the knee) · 85–95%
- Snatch from high blocks (above the knee) · 85–92%
- Paused squat snatch below the knee · 70–85%
- Floating squat snatch · 75–88%