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Snatch Physics: Learn to kettlebell snatch in 21 days
The kettlebell snatch is a full body exercise that delivers amazing effects. The snatch can be used to increase cardiovascular endurance, muscular endurance, strength, flexibility, core stability, explosive power, and much more.
The snatch truly works each and every major joint in the body, ankles, knees, hips, shoulders, elbow, and wrists. For strength, you can't deny the major areas that will improve, such as, latissimus dorsi, deltoid, triceps, erector spinae, abdominals, glute, hamstrings, calves, hip flexors, quadriceps, lumbrical muscles, and many more.
All these properties make it the king of kettlebell exercises, an exercise everyone should include in his or her training. Mastering the snatch takes time, as someone who has completed 532 unbroken snatches in 30 minutes, working with kettlebells for over a decade, and trained thousands of people across the world, I'm able to break down the snatch step-by-step in such a way that you can go from zero to comfortably snatching at the end of the 21 days.
The snatch is an exercise in which a weight is lifted in one continuous motion from start to overhead with an explosive movement in which the weight arrives at the top through velocity generated at the start till approximately middle of the full movement.
This kettlebell book includes many photos of the exercises and drills broken down step-by-step. Bonus links to videos which demo the full movement and drills.
21 days to kettlebell snatch
Day 1: Practice hook grip/hand insertion
Day 2: Practice movement for the pendulum
Day 3: Practice pendulum low swing
Day 4: Practice pendulum swing
Day 5: Practice pendulum high swing
Day 6: Keep drilling
Day 7: Practice racking
Day 8: Practice assisted hand insertion
Day 9: Practice drop into rack
Day 10: Practice assisted half snatch
Day 11: Practice half snatch
Day 12: What fails first
Day 13: Practice pull-out
Day 14: Practice push press and full drop
Day 15: Practice full snatch one kettlebell
Day 16: Practice dead clean one kettlebell
Day 17: Practice dead snatch one kettlebell
Day 18: Practice double kettlebell pendulum swing
Day 19: Practice kettlebell pulling swing and snatch
Day 20: Practice double kettlebell swing snatch
Day 21: Practice snatch
“A very comprehensive guide covering a wide range of what novices and enthusiasts need to know about the kettlebell snatch. Well detailed for trainers and trainees with many video links. A book that will help with good snatching and variations.”
Olivier Vaudour
Professional Kettlebell Sport Athlete
Bonus videos
This book includes links to videos, however, all information for the snatch is contained within this book, the videos are to be considered a bonus.
New dimension of training
Knowing how to snatch adds a completely new dimension to your training, not just by using the exercise itself for multiple reps and programming it within your workouts, but also for things such as getting heavier weight overhead that you would normally not be able too. This assists with creating a new dimension of strength through exercises like heavy static overhead holds/walks, overhead reverse lunge, etc.
The snatch truly works each and every major joint in the body, ankles, knees, hips, shoulders, elbow, and wrists. For strength, you can't deny the major areas that will improve, such as, latissimus dorsi, deltoid, triceps, erector spinae, abdominals, glute, hamstrings, calves, hip flexors, quadriceps, lumbrical muscles, and many more.
All these properties make it the king of kettlebell exercises, an exercise everyone should include in his or her training. Mastering the snatch takes time, as someone who has completed 532 unbroken snatches in 30 minutes, working with kettlebells for over a decade, and trained thousands of people across the world, I'm able to break down the snatch step-by-step in such a way that you can go from zero to comfortably snatching at the end of the 21 days.
The snatch is an exercise in which a weight is lifted in one continuous motion from start to overhead with an explosive movement in which the weight arrives at the top through velocity generated at the start till approximately middle of the full movement.
This kettlebell book includes many photos of the exercises and drills broken down step-by-step. Bonus links to videos which demo the full movement and drills.
21 days to kettlebell snatch
Day 1: Practice hook grip/hand insertion
Day 2: Practice movement for the pendulum
Day 3: Practice pendulum low swing
Day 4: Practice pendulum swing
Day 5: Practice pendulum high swing
Day 6: Keep drilling
Day 7: Practice racking
Day 8: Practice assisted hand insertion
Day 9: Practice drop into rack
Day 10: Practice assisted half snatch
Day 11: Practice half snatch
Day 12: What fails first
Day 13: Practice pull-out
Day 14: Practice push press and full drop
Day 15: Practice full snatch one kettlebell
Day 16: Practice dead clean one kettlebell
Day 17: Practice dead snatch one kettlebell
Day 18: Practice double kettlebell pendulum swing
Day 19: Practice kettlebell pulling swing and snatch
Day 20: Practice double kettlebell swing snatch
Day 21: Practice snatch
“A very comprehensive guide covering a wide range of what novices and enthusiasts need to know about the kettlebell snatch. Well detailed for trainers and trainees with many video links. A book that will help with good snatching and variations.”
Olivier Vaudour
Professional Kettlebell Sport Athlete
Bonus videos
This book includes links to videos, however, all information for the snatch is contained within this book, the videos are to be considered a bonus.
New dimension of training
Knowing how to snatch adds a completely new dimension to your training, not just by using the exercise itself for multiple reps and programming it within your workouts, but also for things such as getting heavier weight overhead that you would normally not be able too. This assists with creating a new dimension of strength through exercises like heavy static overhead holds/walks, overhead reverse lunge, etc.
113 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 15, 2018
About the author
Taco Fleur
72 books3 followersTaco Fleur is the creator of KETTLEBELL MONSTER, the complete kettlebell ecosystem to learn, train, master, and connect, released January 2, 2023. He founded Cavemantraining in 2009 and IKU, International Kettlebell University, and is the author of more than 40 kettlebell books, including the Kettlebell Exercise Encyclopedia and the Master Kettlebell series.
Born in Amsterdam in 1973, he joined the Air Force at sixteen and left the Netherlands at nineteen. In the more than three decades since, he has lived and trained in nine countries: the Netherlands, Spain, Australia, Vietnam, Thailand, Italy, Tanzania, Albania, and Greece. He has traveled, trained and hosted kettlebell workshops and certifications in many more, among them Bali, Singapore, Germany and Sri Lanka. He started as a programmer, writing code for banks and governments. In 2004 he founded Executive Results in Brisbane, filled the gym with kettlebells and picked up his first, sixteen kilograms. In 2009 he opened The Tough Spot in Brisbane, followed by a second location in Albion, and around 2014 Gym Elite in Danang, Vietnam. Most people pick up a kettlebell and learn the swing. He picked up a kettlebell and started taking it apart, not the bell, but the movement. That analytical instinct became the foundation of everything he teaches. Every exercise broken into steps.
He obtained certifications from both sides of the kettlebell world, because the kettlebell does not care what school you came from: StrongFirst SFG2, IKFF Certified Teacher, Russian Girevoy Sport Institute Level 1, IKSFA Kettlebell Coach (ACE approved), HardstyleFit Level 1 Instructor, Kettlebells Level 2 Trainer, Kettlebell Science and Application, and Kettlebell Sport Rank 1. He also obtained the CrossFit Level 1 Trainer certification. He has written for BoxRox and was featured in four issues of Iron Man magazine, Japanese edition, around 2015. He has taught more than 26,000 students online, and his YouTube channel Cavemantraining, started in 2008, has close to 70,000 subscribers and more than 7 million views.
His own numbers, in the kettlebell and outside it: a 36kg strict press for 5 reps, a double 32kg strict press, a 36kg Hardstyle snatch, the StrongFirst snatch test completed twice, 200 unbroken swings with 28kg, one hour of unbroken clean and jerk with 16kg, 45 minutes of unbroken clean and jerk with 20kg, 532 unbroken snatches, 1,501 swings with 28kg in a single session, 11,111 swings with 28kg in 28 days, a 40kg windmill, 100 Turkish get-ups with 20kg in one session, a 160kg deadlift and an 85kg Olympic squat snatch. He took part in the 100k Bribie Island Multi-Sport race (2006), the Hells Bells 24-hour adventure race (2007) and Tough Mudder (2010), and won gold and silver medals in BJJ tournaments (2011).
He teaches the why first, in plain language, with the research behind it. Most teachers are Hardstyle or Sportstyle; he covers both and everything in between. His books are the same.
"Stop making excuses, commit to it, and take a small step. Those small steps will become part of your life as long as you repeat them. Then they will become bigger steps, and then it will just become a lifestyle, and you will love it. Pick up a kettlebell and just do one thing with it."
Born in Amsterdam in 1973, he joined the Air Force at sixteen and left the Netherlands at nineteen. In the more than three decades since, he has lived and trained in nine countries: the Netherlands, Spain, Australia, Vietnam, Thailand, Italy, Tanzania, Albania, and Greece. He has traveled, trained and hosted kettlebell workshops and certifications in many more, among them Bali, Singapore, Germany and Sri Lanka. He started as a programmer, writing code for banks and governments. In 2004 he founded Executive Results in Brisbane, filled the gym with kettlebells and picked up his first, sixteen kilograms. In 2009 he opened The Tough Spot in Brisbane, followed by a second location in Albion, and around 2014 Gym Elite in Danang, Vietnam. Most people pick up a kettlebell and learn the swing. He picked up a kettlebell and started taking it apart, not the bell, but the movement. That analytical instinct became the foundation of everything he teaches. Every exercise broken into steps.
He obtained certifications from both sides of the kettlebell world, because the kettlebell does not care what school you came from: StrongFirst SFG2, IKFF Certified Teacher, Russian Girevoy Sport Institute Level 1, IKSFA Kettlebell Coach (ACE approved), HardstyleFit Level 1 Instructor, Kettlebells Level 2 Trainer, Kettlebell Science and Application, and Kettlebell Sport Rank 1. He also obtained the CrossFit Level 1 Trainer certification. He has written for BoxRox and was featured in four issues of Iron Man magazine, Japanese edition, around 2015. He has taught more than 26,000 students online, and his YouTube channel Cavemantraining, started in 2008, has close to 70,000 subscribers and more than 7 million views.
His own numbers, in the kettlebell and outside it: a 36kg strict press for 5 reps, a double 32kg strict press, a 36kg Hardstyle snatch, the StrongFirst snatch test completed twice, 200 unbroken swings with 28kg, one hour of unbroken clean and jerk with 16kg, 45 minutes of unbroken clean and jerk with 20kg, 532 unbroken snatches, 1,501 swings with 28kg in a single session, 11,111 swings with 28kg in 28 days, a 40kg windmill, 100 Turkish get-ups with 20kg in one session, a 160kg deadlift and an 85kg Olympic squat snatch. He took part in the 100k Bribie Island Multi-Sport race (2006), the Hells Bells 24-hour adventure race (2007) and Tough Mudder (2010), and won gold and silver medals in BJJ tournaments (2011).
He teaches the why first, in plain language, with the research behind it. Most teachers are Hardstyle or Sportstyle; he covers both and everything in between. His books are the same.
"Stop making excuses, commit to it, and take a small step. Those small steps will become part of your life as long as you repeat them. Then they will become bigger steps, and then it will just become a lifestyle, and you will love it. Pick up a kettlebell and just do one thing with it."
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