Barbell Snatch
How to Do Barbell Snatch
- Stand over a barbell with the balls of your feet placed under the loaded bar slightly wider than hip width apart.
- Squat down and take hold of the bar with a very wide grip; ensure that your shoulders are positioned above the barbell, keeping your back straight and eyes straight ahead.
- Explosively lift the bar by extending your hips from the squatting position and allow the bar to travel along the front of your legs.
- As the bar reaches your hip level, shrug your shoulders and pull the barbell upwards keeping the same line of trajectory if viewed from the side.
- Bending your elbows and allowing the bar to extend overhead, squat your body below the bar so that your position is squatted with your arms fully extended above your head.
- Maintaining a solid grip on the now overhead bar, drive your feet into the floor and rise upwards from the squatting position to complete the lift.
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Barbell Snatch Exercise Details
Muscles worked
Barbell Snatch targets glutes & hip flexors and quadriceps and upper back & lower traps and also works shoulders. Use the illustration and step-by-step instructions above to learn the movement pattern and practice proper form.
Equipment needed
This is a gym exercise. Equipment required: full gym.
Similar exercises
Related exercises that work similar muscle groups include Bulgarian split squats, bosu ball single / one leg bridge / hip thrusts / extensions / raises and resistance band clam shells. Browse our free illustrated exercise directory for more exercises.
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