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Max Lang Clean and Snatch Pulls Tutorial

January 27, 2016 By Gregor Winter

“Zug Eng!”

That’s not a Rammstein song, but German for Clean Pull (lit. translation “Pull Narrow”).

In this video Max Lang goes over the first phase (“First Pull” – the pull to hips). Second Pull is the high pull to belly button / chest. He’ll cover that in his Snatch Pull video.

Max emphasises:

  • being able to see your toes when you look down. Bar mid foot.
  • externally rotating the legs so that the knees can get out of the way during the pull
  • keep your back angle the same, keeping your butt down
  • Shoulders over the bar, or slightly in front, arms straight
  • Max wants you to have thigh contact as soon as possible
  • you can utilize the shoulder shrug at the top, “definitely not a mistake”
  • stresses the importance of doing it correctly, not going too heavy too soon

Common Errors:

  • butt comes up first, which means you pull mostly using your back. In the long run that’s not the healthiest of ways.
  • rounded back, lack of tension in back, too heavy loads
  • you don’t pull using the entire food (weight shifting onto toes for example), lack of concentration, wrong footwear
  • too close or too far away from the bar. Bloody shins means bar too close. No thigh contact means bar too far away.

Second Pull and Snatch Pull

Filed Under: clean pull, exercises, snatch pull, videos, weightlifting

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Comments

  1. Mr_Rogers413 says

    January 28, 2016 at 16:07

    I am really enjoying Max’s videos. Looking forward to more!

  2. OlyALb says

    March 1, 2017 at 09:20

    Compare to the Russian style of lifting, max seem almost behind the bar.

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