Floppy Pulls Make Sloppy Lifts
Quit flopping around at the top of your pulls like someone cut your strings!
In a snatch or clean pull or high-pull, continue pushing into the floor and remaining tightly extended until the bar stops moving up.
Relaxing early trains you to quit driving too early when you snatch and clean—floppy pulls make sloppy lifts.
In an actual snatch or clean, the legs will not continue driving until the bar reaches its maximal height like in a pull; but remember, we make changes to various exercises to achieve specific goals to support the lifts, not just mimic them. Cutting the leg drive off early when training pulls limits their effectiveness and will tend to cause weak and incomplete leg drive in snatches and cleans.
Note that in a speed pull, AKA panda pull, the lifter will be actively pulling the body down to the bar after reaching full extension rather than continuing to pull the bar up past this point as they would in a conventional high-pull.
While this appears very different, the fundamental goal of constantly applying force to the bar is identical, and it takes a lot of discipline to finish the pull completely in this variation, which is why it’s generally a poor choice for new lifters who don’t yet have a solid technical foundation.
In a snatch or clean pull or high-pull, continue pushing into the floor and remaining tightly extended until the bar stops moving up.
Relaxing early trains you to quit driving too early when you snatch and clean—floppy pulls make sloppy lifts.
In an actual snatch or clean, the legs will not continue driving until the bar reaches its maximal height like in a pull; but remember, we make changes to various exercises to achieve specific goals to support the lifts, not just mimic them. Cutting the leg drive off early when training pulls limits their effectiveness and will tend to cause weak and incomplete leg drive in snatches and cleans.
Note that in a speed pull, AKA panda pull, the lifter will be actively pulling the body down to the bar after reaching full extension rather than continuing to pull the bar up past this point as they would in a conventional high-pull.
While this appears very different, the fundamental goal of constantly applying force to the bar is identical, and it takes a lot of discipline to finish the pull completely in this variation, which is why it’s generally a poor choice for new lifters who don’t yet have a solid technical foundation.
