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Jerk

Best Exercises to Improve Your Jerk

Max Aita shares his favorite movements to address different problems and improve the Jerk.

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4 Tips To Improve the Jerk

Coach Max Aita and Team Juggernaut bring your 4 Tips To Improve Your Jerk. Use these simple but effective tips to…

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Warming Up for the Jerk

We break down some simple drills to help you warmup for the Jerk and improve your technique. An effective Jerk warmup…

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Improving the Jerk

The Jerk is the toughest lift in Weightlifting. Here is everything you need to know about improving your performance in…

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5 Keys to a Better Jerk

The Jerk is the most missed lift in Weightlifting, fix yours with these 5 important technical aspects. The start…

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Pillars of Jerk Technique | Catch and Recovery

Max Aita concludes of Pillars of Jerk Technique series with Part 5. Check out our other series, including: Clean…

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Pillars of Jerk Technique | The Split

Find a stable and consistent split position to receive your Jerk.

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Pillars of Jerk Technique | Start Position

Max begins our Jerk Pillar series with a tutorial on the proper start position. Check out our other series, including…

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Week In Review-Refining The Jerk

Max sits down with Juggernaut weightlifters, Colin Burns, Cortney Batchelor and Anthony Pomponio to discuss their week…

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Jerk Tutorial with Max Aita and Anthony Pomponio

The jerk is the most missed lift in the sport of Weightlifting, but often gets too little attention when addressing…

Fitness

How to Fill CrossFitters’ Weightlifting Gaps

Learning the snatch and clean & jerk is the pursuit of a true craft. Every athlete who has competed in weightlifting…

Recovery

National Championship Update – Donovan Ford

The last few weeks there has been a lot on my mind, mainly about this year’s National Championships. Training has been…