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Free Weight · Barbell

Block Snatch

Muscles worked

  • Glutes
  • Lower Back
  • Quads
  • Hamstrings
  • Traps
  • Calves
  • Forearms

How to do it

  1. Place the barbell on blocks around knee height and take a wide snatch grip
  2. Extend your hips and knees explosively, then pull under the bar and catch it overhead on straight arms in a squat
  3. Stand up with the bar stable overhead

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