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Home » exercises » Strappo Lento Warm Up with Mirko Zanni

Strappo Lento Warm Up with Mirko Zanni

May 20, 2017 By Gregor Winter

In the Rebeka Koha & Mirco Scarantino Training Hall video many of you commented on the Mirko Zanni‘s (69kg, Italy) snatch warm up exercise. So here is a separate post.

Strappo Lento (Slow Snatch / Tall Snatch Drops)

A post shared by All Things Gym (@atginsta) on Feb 15, 2018 at 1:28pm PST


Focus is on full extension / finishing the pull before dropping under, as well as keeping the bar close.

Mirko said that his coach taught him this variation about a year ago.

“In Italia we call it “strappo lento” (slow snatch). It helps me a lot and I love it, because it seems to cancel the gravity.”

How often? What weights?

“I do this 2/3 times a week (60/80kg) in the first training in the morning to prepare the movement for the afternoon’s snatch.

To put it into perspective, Mirko won snatch silver at Europeans with 143kg at 69kg.

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