Main site Saturday 231209 Workout

  • On a running clock
  • 000-1000
  • 1 snatch high pull
  • 1 hang power snatch

  • 1000-2000

  • Complete the following complex for max load

  • 1 power snatch

  • 2 hang squat snatches

  • For Part 1 Start at 30% of your max snatch and work up to 50%.

  • For Part 2 Make as many attempts as desired within the 10-minute window.

  • Goal Technical practice and application. Percentages are based on your best power snatch.

  • Focus on continuous leg drive and elevating the bar. If the second pull is not executed efficiently, you won’t be able to lift as much load.

  • When time starts, athletes begin with 30% of their best snatch, or what they consider to be a light weight, and work up in load using the complex of 1 snatch high pull + 1 hang power snatch until they hit about 50%.

  • At the 10-minute mark

  • Athletes move on to their working window and hit the complex of 1 power snatch + 2 hang squat snatches as heavy as possible.

  • Athletes cannot drop the bar between their power snatch and hang squat snatch.

  • Scaling

  • Intermediate option

  • Intermediate athletes can perform this workout as prescribed.

  • Beginner option

  • From 000-1000

  • Practice the following complex with an empty bar or a light weight

  • 1 hang snatch pull

  • 1 hang power snatch

  • From 1000-2000

  • Work up to a heavy set of

  • 3 hang power snatches