Weightlifting

Improving the Jerk


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The Jerk is the toughest lift in Weightlifting. Here is everything you need to know about improving your performance in it.


Max Aita goes step by step through the most important aspects of success in our Jerk Technique Pillars series.


Improve your Jerk technique and your communication with your athletes/training partners with these cues from Max Aita.


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Are you pushing your jerks out if front of you and having to chase them to the front of the platform? This will help.


Alyssa Ritchey made a HUGE 105kg/231# Clean and Jerk to win the 49kg/108# class at the 2018 American Open Finals. Her Coach Max Aita, breaks down her technique in this great lift.

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