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Snatch
34 articles
weightlifting
Pillars of Snatch Technique | The Turnover
Turning the bar over quickly, in the right trajectory is critical to making heavy snatches. Max Aita and Alyssa Ritchey…
weightlifting
Pillars of Snatch Technique | The Explosion
When the bar meets the hip, the athlete’s ability to explode upward and impart vertical force on the bar is critical…
weightlifting
Pillars of Snatch Technique | Pull to the Hip
Max Aita continues our Pillars of Snatch Technique series with a discussion of the pull to the hip.
weightlifting
Pillars of Snatch Technique | Start Position
Max Aita kicks off our newest series, Pillars of Snatch Technique, with a tutorial of finding the best start position…
weightlifting
The JuggLife LIVE | Queens
Chad and Max visit JDI Barbell in Queens, NY for a Snatch Workshop and special LIVE episode of The JuggLife discussing…
weightlifting
Quiana Welch American Record Snatch
Quiana Welch broke the American Record in the Snatch with 108kg/238# in the 75kg/165# class on her way to Gold in the…
weightlifting
How To Stay Over the Bar
Team Juggernaut Head Coach Max Aita discusses the important technical concept of staying over the bar in the Snatch. In…
weightlifting
Beginners Guide to Snatching
Team Juggernaut Head Weightlifting Coach Max Aita walks Meg Gallagher aka MegSquats through some training for the…
weightlifting
American Record Snatch Comparison
Max Aita and Colin Burns dissect the differences between Colin’s 169kg American Record from 2014 World Championships…
Movement
Shoulder Position for the Overhead Squat
Coaching shoulder position in the overhead squat/snatch lift is a hotly debated topic within weightlifting circles. You…
weightlifting
Snatch Training with Max Aita
Last weekend, Max Aita, Head Coach at JuggernautHQ, took a few top CrossFit and Weightlifting athletes through a…
Fitness
Stop Treating CrossFit Like a High-Intensity Sport
“Intensity is the independent variable most commonly associated with optimizing return.” This view has long been held…