Keeping Your Arms Straight

Keeping your arms straight and relaxed in you pulls can be hugely beneficial in the efficiency of your Olympic lifts. This isn’t true in all cases but for Coral it does affect the amount of power she can generate in her clean and snatch.

A really simple cue to help with this is to thing of your arms as spaghetti. They are only tethered to the bar by your hookgrip, not by a death grip on the bar..

Try it out and tell me how you go!