re: Shoulder pain from snatches

You’re not quitting man, you’re resting I’m serious. An elite, elite guy that I used to train with would shove what looked like a woman’s vibrator in his shoulder between sets and I guess it kept his body hanging on by a thread so I would recommend just giving it a break when you’re hurting or scale way, way down on weight and focus on auxiliary lifts like 3’s and 3’s if you don’t want to completely stop.

Speaking of, how strong are you at your auxiliary lifts? Can you overhead squat significantly more than you can snatch?

Considering you seem to enjoy snatches and top notch technical coaching is very readily accessible nowadays on YouTube, I’m going to assume that your problems aren’t as much bad technique as “I can snatch way more than my stabilizer muscles and support muscles can handle because I don’t do enough hang snatches, snatch pulls, 3x3’s, etc.” I’m not recommending this, but you can very well get away with only doing those auxiliary lifts if you don’t hurt when you’re doing them and actually end up stronger when you eventually throw up a full snatch for the first time in months.

That being said, if you do choose to rest, the month or so of feeling bad about yourself for not doing snatches will be well, well worth it in the long run. Olympic lifting is 90% technique and if you’re hurting really badly when you lift you’re developing bad habits which isn’t worth it in the long run

I tweaked my long head bicep tendon on very heavy pec deck flys and really fricked it up on weighted pull-ups a week or so later.

After that, snatch movements with very light weight felt like someone was sticking a knife in my shoulder.

I eventually tore it 5 weeks later helping a kid on my daughters soccer team over a fence.

Try using lifters.

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It’s funny if you’re 12.

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Or if you take the less obvious route of it being one letter off from "snitch".

Dang that sucks brother. This bursitis, I couldn’t handstand or deadhang for over five months. It was AWFUL

I actually used a band to do some ankle mobility this morning, and the first I noticed was how much lower I went into my squats. I was doing them well before, but my ROM was definitely greater. I’ll have to keep doing that.

Why in the frick you snatching with a bar for anyways? You old bro, stop that shite

Waste of time for 99% of non competing athletes. Very very limited benifit over a traditional clean on explosiveness and not really any other benefits for normal person.

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Just can’t seem to be able to get low enough. Which is weird because my back squats and front squats look good.

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You need a ton more lat and thoracic spine mobility for an OH squat compared to a back squat

And that doesn’t even account for things you can’t control like femur length and how that affects your upright posture when trying to squat

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lsu777

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I want to enter some comps in 2021. I want to do a strongman comp and an olympic comp. To do an oly comp, I really need to be able to snatch. Other than that, I would want to snatch.

I don’t think I can afford Coach Hatch. I’m not 100% sure if I’m going to do an oly comp, but I want to.