Please read! After years of being approached by my audience (both online and irl) about how important my technique videos have been I decided I wanted to update them. Over the next 5 videos I will be sharing everything I know regarding the snatch and clean and jerk technique. The goal is to have this be the reference point for any and all weightlifting coaches and or athletes to come. The most important thing about this is that it is COMPLETELY free. Not behind a paywall. Not part of a master class. Just free on the place that started it all for me. All of that is possible because of 2Pood Belts. They hired a production team and shot and edited these videos because they believed in me. So if you’re in the market for a weightlifting belt please check out my belt here 2pood.com/products/graceful-giant-4-weightlifting-belt?variant=48382971576480 Thank you all so much for your support ❤
I have learnt so much from your videos, transitioning into oly lifting from other strength disciplines, and very excited to see you release some updates ones. Incredibly helpful. Keep up the great work ZT.
IMHO you are at your BEST when you're doing instruction vids. That's how I found your channel and have been a follower for years now. The vid logging etc, were a distant second to your vids of technique, workouts, corrections and motivations. PLEASE more of these. Cheers!
Thanks so much for this. I've always wanted to ask you if you could go over bar position on high bar squats since coming from low bar I always have a really hard time getting it right and it hurts like crazy so I just end up going back to low bar. If you could even do a short about that I'd be eternally grateful. Almost no one on youtube has a decent tutorial on high bar bar position in depth.
I learned and attempted my first Snatch and Clean & Jerk at the age of 31 because of your videos. I am now 36 and will be competing for the first time in April with 100kg and 130kg as my openers. Appreciate everything you put out. Love this sport. Only regret is not learning it sooner.
The content on this channel around deep squatting and the "5-minute squat" have helped me immensely. I am honestly grateful for this instruction. I hit a significant squat PR today, and I owe it to starting back over with squatting from a "just break parallel so it counts" mindset to this stuff. Now squatting is a full leg workout by itself and I have experienced strength and hypertrophy gains. I have used Zack's stuff throughout the process, the technique and pause squatting and all the rest. Doing the stuff in this video and some variants have helped me with tons of mobility throughout my back and shoulders as well. For me and where i am, I put significant loads on my back, and the pause squatting at heavier weights has kept me from bouncing at the bottom when I hit my max ranges and I feel it is very safe. Honestly, thanks for all this, Zack.
I was formerly totally unable to squat. I passed like months trying to improve my ankle mobility in vain because this was the only factors influencers talked about - but the problem originally was a hip mobility issue. Then I watched the 5-minute squat routine from Zack and tried to do the same, and after a few weeks the problem was solved. I'm so grateful for this cue Zack!
I've never tried the snatch or clean because they look really intimidating. Those videos [that many people use to "teach" new people with] almost feel like those drawing tutorials that say "draw a circle, now fill in the details... you drew an owl!" I've seen bits and pieces of his videos and how he explains the process... and frankly I'm hyper excited to try this out. if it weren't bed time for me right now I'd go to my garage and start. (tomorrow after work it is!)
Thank you Zack! It was yourself and Clarence who got me hooked on olympic weightlifting for the first time. 4 years passed and I still try to better myself every day. Olympic weightlifting became my passion and you played a great role in it. Thanks!
Im incredible impressed by your coaching bro. From a fellow Strength Coach and Physical Therapist, I just need you to know you have the gift. The gift of making the critical, important elements appear sooo easy, doable, and intuitive without introducing the client to fear / doubt in ability. Keep growing, learning, and gaining brother
Excellent video! You have added so much material, concisely, compared to your early videos. At 2:30 your comment to put the forearms on the knees, wow, such a simple thing but what a difference it makes in simply getting down into that bottom position. So much better for my knees and also cues up the adductors.
I’ve struggled with an overhead squat forever and this has helped me immensely. Just the tip of hand placement (I too am a lanky bastard) made it so much more accessible. Thanks brotha ✌️
I’ve seen your other videos demonstrating this proper technique and it’s awesome. As a former CrossFitter, it’s probably the best instruction I’ve seen.
I have been doing power building programs for the last few years and just bought the bells of steel oly bar to get into these lifts. PERFECT TIMING AND GREAT INFO!
I am not even weightlifting, I am only squatting. But I have started watching your content to understand more about squatting technique. This is perfect!
Thank you so much for putting this content out there. Very educational and so easy to understand. I’ll start implementing and do it frequently until I get to the last progression By the way you’re new look (no Mo ) love it. & Keep up the good work.
This is going to be bloody great and I for one am looking forward to it all enormously. MUCH APPRECIATED and thank you BIG! Age 71 in May over here, six three with fun-femurs, lifting since the mid-sixties, and I LOVE WHAT YOU DO! But not like that, eh., and I have a gray beard to prove it. Ba-dump-bum. Looking forward to what lies ahead, comes down the pike, round that mountain and all that. Let's Lift!
I was just telling my wife how I wanna attend a seminar with you one day to learn to do Olympic weightlifting because it’s something I’ve dreamed of learning for over a decade. I still want to attend a seminar but this will be a nice stopgap until then
I'm definitely doing this on my Saturday workouts. I have such a hard time with cleans and especially snatches because I can't get down into a deep squat like this.
Plateaued and couldn’t understand why. Great ankle mobility. Arguably, terrible shoulder mobility with the bar going up and not behind. So really not hitting the positions I need to be in. Add increasing weight and the wheels fall off the wagon. Will work on locked out elbows/scaps together/overhead bar position until it’s consistent. Thank you so much. Think this will make a massive difference.
If you wanna help your progress with extra mobility work, try "learning" the pancake. It works the same hip mobility that helps you getting your legs to your chest while keeping the back straight. It also helps with adductors flexibility which Zack mentioned is important for the deep squat
Could you make a video about the ankles in the snatch or clean? Whenever I go full squat or power in the snatch and clean my ankles go far out to the side
I gotta confess, I stopped watching this channel a while back when you started doing reaction videos to a lot of topics that were increasingly unrelated to your core expertize. (And to be honest, you seemed lost and bored with a lot of those videos). But videos like this is what I come here for. You are absolutely in your element with this one. Never sacrifice quality for quantity... unless of course you are Stalin fighting Hitler on the Eastern Front, but that's completely different. PS. Don't take this is as harsh criticism. Do with your channel what you think is right. You can't please them all.
They're alright. But just like cleats for football, or basketball shoes for basketball, or runners for running. Weightlifting shoes are made for weightlifting and they'll only help you improve. Not just the added heel height but also the stability they provide. So if you want to snatch and clean & jerk the best you can, get a pair
Zack, one thing that has always concerned me is how flat feet can influence one's stability in the squat. Weightlifting shoes should alleviate the issue, but what about when barefoot?
Does anyone know why my overhead squat feels better then my front squat? I use a pretty wide stance with feet turned out due to poor dorsiflexion and longish femurs in both squats and i have pretty much perfect front rack mobility as far as i can tell but it just seems like so much effort whenever i front squat.
Please read! After years of being approached by my audience (both online and irl) about how important my technique videos have been I decided I wanted to update them. Over the next 5 videos I will be sharing everything I know regarding the snatch and clean and jerk technique. The goal is to have this be the reference point for any and all weightlifting coaches and or athletes to come. The most important thing about this is that it is COMPLETELY free. Not behind a paywall. Not part of a master class. Just free on the place that started it all for me. All of that is possible because of 2Pood Belts. They hired a production team and shot and edited these videos because they believed in me. So if you’re in the market for a weightlifting belt please check out my belt here 2pood.com/products/graceful-giant-4-weightlifting-belt?variant=48382971576480
Thank you all so much for your support ❤
As I mentioned in a previous post you made… your training content videos are the equivalent of modern day Ironmind lifting videos. Thank you 🙏🏼
I have learnt so much from your videos, transitioning into oly lifting from other strength disciplines, and very excited to see you release some updates ones. Incredibly helpful. Keep up the great work ZT.
IMHO you are at your BEST when you're doing instruction vids. That's how I found your channel and have been a follower for years now. The vid logging etc, were a distant second to your vids of technique, workouts, corrections and motivations. PLEASE more of these. Cheers!
Thanks so much for this. I've always wanted to ask you if you could go over bar position on high bar squats since coming from low bar I always have a really hard time getting it right and it hurts like crazy so I just end up going back to low bar. If you could even do a short about that I'd be eternally grateful. Almost no one on youtube has a decent tutorial on high bar bar position in depth.
I learned and attempted my first Snatch and Clean & Jerk at the age of 31 because of your videos. I am now 36 and will be competing for the first time in April with 100kg and 130kg as my openers. Appreciate everything you put out. Love this sport. Only regret is not learning it sooner.
All CrossFit coaches should watch this
The content on this channel around deep squatting and the "5-minute squat" have helped me immensely. I am honestly grateful for this instruction. I hit a significant squat PR today, and I owe it to starting back over with squatting from a "just break parallel so it counts" mindset to this stuff. Now squatting is a full leg workout by itself and I have experienced strength and hypertrophy gains. I have used Zack's stuff throughout the process, the technique and pause squatting and all the rest. Doing the stuff in this video and some variants have helped me with tons of mobility throughout my back and shoulders as well. For me and where i am, I put significant loads on my back, and the pause squatting at heavier weights has kept me from bouncing at the bottom when I hit my max ranges and I feel it is very safe. Honestly, thanks for all this, Zack.
That's amazing man. Keep grinding❤✊🏾
I was formerly totally unable to squat. I passed like months trying to improve my ankle mobility in vain because this was the only factors influencers talked about - but the problem originally was a hip mobility issue. Then I watched the 5-minute squat routine from Zack and tried to do the same, and after a few weeks the problem was solved. I'm so grateful for this cue Zack!
Amazing! This will aid newcomers to weightlifting for years to come.
I've never tried the snatch or clean because they look really intimidating. Those videos [that many people use to "teach" new people with] almost feel like those drawing tutorials that say "draw a circle, now fill in the details... you drew an owl!" I've seen bits and pieces of his videos and how he explains the process... and frankly I'm hyper excited to try this out. if it weren't bed time for me right now I'd go to my garage and start. (tomorrow after work it is!)
To have access to this level of instruction for free is a gift to humanity. It’s a beautiful act of service
Thank you Zack! It was yourself and Clarence who got me hooked on olympic weightlifting for the first time. 4 years passed and I still try to better myself every day. Olympic weightlifting became my passion and you played a great role in it. Thanks!
Man....feels good to see Zack teaching lifts again. Love how the content has evolved over the years but this just feels right.
I NEEDED this! Thanks Coach
Im incredible impressed by your coaching bro. From a fellow Strength Coach and Physical Therapist, I just need you to know you have the gift. The gift of making the critical, important elements appear sooo easy, doable, and intuitive without introducing the client to fear / doubt in ability.
Keep growing, learning, and gaining brother
Finally some weightlifting content!! Awesome!
Bro his whole channel is weightlifting content 🤣
@@federicocarnebalenot really though, he branches out a lot! I like it though
as a 6'5 novice weightlifter...this is huge. thanks man
Excellent video! You have added so much material, concisely, compared to your early videos. At 2:30 your comment to put the forearms on the knees, wow, such a simple thing but what a difference it makes in simply getting down into that bottom position. So much better for my knees and also cues up the adductors.
the fact you progressed so much in terms of quality of your movies speaks volumes about you sir
I’ve struggled with an overhead squat forever and this has helped me immensely. Just the tip of hand placement (I too am a lanky bastard) made it so much more accessible. Thanks brotha ✌️
Eager to see the rest of this miniseries, so far so great!
Much appreciated. Thanks for the super hi-res 8k footage too haha
I’ve seen your other videos demonstrating this proper technique and it’s awesome. As a former CrossFitter, it’s probably the best instruction I’ve seen.
I have been doing power building programs for the last few years and just bought the bells of steel oly bar to get into these lifts. PERFECT TIMING AND GREAT INFO!
what a time to be alive, thanks for sharing your precious knowledge Zack
I am not even weightlifting, I am only squatting. But I have started watching your content to understand more about squatting technique. This is perfect!
This is a must watch video not just for weightlifting, but anyone who's remotely interested in squatting. Really good tips. Thank you sir.
I am so unreasonably excited to try this at the gym
Thank you for this! I’ve been struggling with my squats after an ankle injury and starting from the basics to build up again is key!
All hail The Weightlifting Giraffe!
May the wisdom from these videos proliferate through the generations.
really weird watching u so serious but LOADS of knowledge. loved
Fresh and just what i needed
Thank you so much for putting this content out there.
Very educational and so easy to understand.
I’ll start implementing and do it frequently until I get to the last progression
By the way you’re new look (no Mo ) love it. & Keep up the good work.
I miss these videos from Zack. Love it.
This is going to be bloody great and I for one am looking forward to it all enormously. MUCH APPRECIATED and thank you BIG! Age 71 in May over here, six three with fun-femurs, lifting since the mid-sixties, and I LOVE WHAT YOU DO! But not like that, eh., and I have a gray beard to prove it. Ba-dump-bum. Looking forward to what lies ahead, comes down the pike, round that mountain and all that. Let's Lift!
impressive production value with this one wowee
Love your content Zack!! Keep it coming 🙌🏼💪🏼🥰
I was just telling my wife how I wanna attend a seminar with you one day to learn to do Olympic weightlifting because it’s something I’ve dreamed of learning for over a decade. I still want to attend a seminar but this will be a nice stopgap until then
I'm definitely doing this on my Saturday workouts. I have such a hard time with cleans and especially snatches because I can't get down into a deep squat like this.
Awesome work Zack.
Love your work Zach!
Your channel is blessing, very informative.
Great part 1!
Thank you, Zack. This helps so much. 👍
So much value in this video!
Thank you Coach Zack, much appreciated
Thanks for the tips, great as always.
This is priceless information. THANK YOU
great vid Zack, very helpful 🏋
Plateaued and couldn’t understand why. Great ankle mobility. Arguably, terrible shoulder mobility with the bar going up and not behind. So really not hitting the positions I need to be in. Add increasing weight and the wheels fall off the wagon. Will work on locked out elbows/scaps together/overhead bar position until it’s consistent. Thank you so much. Think this will make a massive difference.
Thank you!!
Quality and easy to understand, nice!
Great stuff !!! ❤ keep it coming !
If you wanna help your progress with extra mobility work, try "learning" the pancake. It works the same hip mobility that helps you getting your legs to your chest while keeping the back straight. It also helps with adductors flexibility which Zack mentioned is important for the deep squat
Great video Zack!
Great stuff Zack
This series is going to be sick
This is great! Your opus magnum maybe this series will be hahahe.
Thank you for the awesome content
This is an excellent video.
Thanks Zack. Good coach.
thank you so much, mega helpful and awesome!!
Great video! Subscribed!
I am 62 years trying with Olympic lifting... this should help me surely
Love it!! Thank you!!
Thanks, great video !
Zack is the rare man who can rock the stache, I miss it already.
This is gonna be sick
Great advice thanks zak
i love this quality
cheers dude .... on the cas
Thanks for the tips
@zacktelander when’s the tellie model TYR lifters drop? I need some to match my giraffe hat.
Excellent video 👌👍💯
Always gold ❤
Great video
where can i find your patreon i heard you post good stuff there too .. cheers
Could you make a video about the ankles in the snatch or clean?
Whenever I go full squat or power in the snatch and clean my ankles go far out to the side
Thank you!
PIBB’D up and ready to go
Thank you
Thank you Goat
I gotta confess, I stopped watching this channel a while back when you started doing reaction videos to a lot of topics that were increasingly unrelated to your core expertize. (And to be honest, you seemed lost and bored with a lot of those videos).
But videos like this is what I come here for. You are absolutely in your element with this one.
Never sacrifice quality for quantity... unless of course you are Stalin fighting Hitler on the Eastern Front, but that's completely different.
PS. Don't take this is as harsh criticism. Do with your channel what you think is right. You can't please them all.
Excellent
Coach ZT, can we progress our deep squat and still train like a bodybuilder?
back to basics! noice
When overhead squatting, how do you stop the palm of your hand (near the thumb) from getting sore?
I use van slip ons will they work for now for oly weightlifting? Or should I just get a pair specifically for oly?
They're alright. But just like cleats for football, or basketball shoes for basketball, or runners for running. Weightlifting shoes are made for weightlifting and they'll only help you improve. Not just the added heel height but also the stability they provide. So if you want to snatch and clean & jerk the best you can, get a pair
best weightlifting shoes for a beginner? cant find any in store...
Great to see more training instead of ‘who does steroids?’ content
Yes weight lifting content 🦒🦒🦒🦒🦒
How could I improve my overhead position, the bar travels forward when I squat down?
Zack, one thing that has always concerned me is how flat feet can influence one's stability in the squat. Weightlifting shoes should alleviate the issue, but what about when barefoot?
What about it. Why would you need to lift barefoot
What about shin splints? How do squats every day or other day deep and high volume without developing it?
Can you start doing this with PVC? I struggle with this.
Thx Giraffe❤
Does anyone know why my overhead squat feels better then my front squat? I use a pretty wide stance with feet turned out due to poor dorsiflexion and longish femurs in both squats and i have pretty much perfect front rack mobility as far as i can tell but it just seems like so much effort whenever i front squat.
Thanks 🫡
Holy thumbnail. Get that money fr fr
Damn will need to break down my squat technique and start from ZERO. Damn
Finally my years of yoga pays off. can unweighted deep squat for days.
iv tought myself to deep squat by placing an object on the floor that i pick up during a squat with my sphincter
09:36 - 10:00 its a great moment!🧐
my pooping habits have gotten much better after i started doing deep squats, cheers yall.
I can squat fine, just watching for tha algorithm
I can see the potential here...