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Daily Doubles! Weekly Weightlifting Workouts – Snatch Focus: Week 2

September 20, 2015 by Nick Horton

Week 2 of your snatch cycle! Same basic concepts: shoot for good (contest legal; safe) technique, rather than “max” weights; get lots of total volume (sets x reps); and have as much fun as possible! You’ll notice there is more of a focus on pulls over squats during this cycle. I’ve always felt that your […]

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Daily Doubles! Weekly Weightlifting Workouts: Sept 7

September 6, 2015 by Nick Horton

Week 5 of a Squat Strength Cycle. This is your “taper”, or rather, a slight deload (lowering of the total load of your weekly workouts). That said, don’t mistake this as a “contest taper”, as it isn’t meant to deload you that much. Your total load is certainly much lower this week than it was […]

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Filed Under: Daily Doubles Tagged With: clean, jerk, program, programming, snatch, squat, squat nemesis, weightlifting

Bad Bar Path? Crush Your 3rd-Pull: Speed & Power on the Snatch & Clean

June 2, 2015 by Nick Horton

NOTE: Today’s video is not a “normal” episode — it’s part of a HUGE 7-week series on the 3rd-Pull for the Nemesis Journal. Don’t worry, this video makes sense by itself. But if you want to go deeper, make sure you sign up for the weekly journal and watch every episode — there are a […]

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Filed Under: Episodes Tagged With: 3rd pull, clean, drill, hoedown, snatch, technique, weightlifting

Swan Rows: Move Better – Snatch & Clean 3rd-Pull Drill

May 20, 2015 by Nick Horton

Fix your 3rd pull by learning to move your body better — In today’s episode of Weightlifting Academy! It’s one thing to be shown correct technique. It’s quite another to be able to pull it off with correct body mechanics. Most beginners I see simply don’t have the level of mind-body neurological connection that they […]

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Filed Under: Episodes Tagged With: clean, drills, mobility, movement, snatch, technique, traps, weightlifting

Mississippi Snatch Drill, OR, How To Control Your Snatch at the Weightlifting Dance

May 12, 2015 by Nick Horton

Rhythm is a dancer, it’s a Snatch Enhancer — in today’s episode of Weightlifting Academy! Timing, Rhythm, and Control are terms that apply to dancing, the martial arts, and certainly to Olympic weightlifting. The Mississippi Snatch Drill is designed to help you learn how to control the bar better, and get into better rhythms with […]

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Sumo Stomp! Snatch Technique Drill – OR – How To Get Under the Bar Faster, Smarter

May 5, 2015 by Nick Horton

Want to get under the bar faster? Don’t think “down”, think UP! — In today’s episode of Weightlifting Academy! The Sumo Stomp is a fun name for a simple drill that can get you under heavier weights faster. Paradoxically, you should NEVER think “down”. Instead, I want you to think of everything going up: Your […]

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Terminator Snatch Pulls: Technique & Strength Drill

May 1, 2015 by Nick Horton

Fix your Snatch Technique & Build Strength at the same time – Try the Terminator Snatch Pull in today’s episode of Weightlifting Academy! The Terminator Snatch Pull is so named because you want to be as precise and deliberate as a machine. 🙂 The big idea is to PAUSE at each position, fix that position, […]

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How To Extend Safely in Olympic Weightlifting: T-Spine Snatch Drill

April 7, 2015 by Nick Horton

Stop Extending At Your Lower Back! Try this T-Spine Snatch Drill and Learn How to Extend the SAFE Way in the Olympic lifts — In today’s episode of Weightlifting Academy! Everyone keeps telling you to EXTEND more – not just in the hips and knees.. but in the torso. But if you do this at […]

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Butt-Stomp Drill – Fix Your Snatch & Clean: Move Faster, Catch Harder

March 24, 2015 by Nick Horton

You are too SLOW and too WIMPY in your Snatch & Clean… it’s time to fix that. In today’s episode of Weightlifting Academy, the Butt-Stomp Drill! Learn to Move FASTER & Catch HARDER in both the Snatch and the Clean. There are two parts to the drill: BUTT: Flex your ass, hard and fast STOMP: […]

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Anatomy of a Snatch FAIL: Why You Gotta Lock Out… HARD – Weightlifting Academy Episode

January 26, 2015 by Nick Horton

In today’s episode of Weightlifting Academy: Why Eli misses this snatch and how to make sure you don’t! I do a little mini-comparison of a snatch FAIL by Eli and a snatch make (a PR, actually) by George. Eli does nearly everything right, but fucks up the MOST IMPORTANT thing (Rule #1: Lock Out like […]

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