Contact vs No-Contact Muscle Snatch - Q&A with Greg Everett

[@GuyInaGarageWL]

Thanks for answering my question. I’ve played around with no contact muscle snatches and as a masters weightlifter all I got from it was early arm bend, over extension of the torso and difficulty in not allowing the elbows to drop under and press. I feel like the muscle snatch is one accessory exercise that all weightlifters do from all countries and I’ve certainly enjoyed the benefits cycling it through my technique primers.

[@chiselednatty]

I appreciate your authenticity.

[@bigdog7563]

Love this channel. Train the way you play. Thank you.

[@bleepblabloop]

Also, I’d be afraid the no contact variation could mess with the timing of the second to third pull transition and potentially ingrain an early arm bend habit.

[@navarroherreraricardo8808]

I have your book in spanish

[@rh.m6660]

Yo lo tengo en ingles. Lograste implementar sus ideas en tus entrenamientos?

[@navarroherreraricardo8808]

@@rh.m6660 más que nada lo técnico

[@jakerohloff3539]

Hey Greg, in your opinion, are there any assistance exercises he would recommend to better somebody’s muscle snatch?

[@CatalystAthletics]

Yes, see this - kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5qbfIxtm7V2bLc

[@AwestaKhalid]

I wanna have a weighitlifting channel where I'm talking and lifting in old school late 70s early 80s singlets and call the channel "3-2-1 Hip Contact"

[@emilystonedavis3143]

lol--...RUINS YOUR WHOLE LIFE...so true.🤣

[@richardarmitage5976]

Honestly I've never really understood contact in these movements please explain?

[@commentconnoisseur1001]

Watch a snatch and clean tutorial by Clarence, Zack or Juggernaut

[@CatalystAthletics]

@@commentconnoisseur1001 Or even perhaps... me. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKHHna2uaMmYo5Y

[@CatalystAthletics]

What do you not understand? How it's supposed to happen? Or why it's necessary?

[@richardarmitage5976]

@@CatalystAthletics I know it sounds strange, training for a long time but I never really have understood the hip contact it's just not the way I perceive it. To me contact is going to move bar away not up.

[@CatalystAthletics]

@@richardarmitage5976 Watch this video - kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKHHna2uaMmYo5Y And also the next Q&A talks more about contact and should help. Short version is that you cannot pull properly without contact - but how that contact occurs will determine whether or not it improves bar acceleration and elevation, or adds forward momentum.

[@stephenjlewis1976]

Come on who disliked the video?,

[@tall9145]

That was my thought too

[@tonybrown7199]

Someone that gets their elbows under the bar lol

[@stephenjlewis1976]

@@tonybrown7199 the snatch high pull/awkward turnover/snatch grip push press.