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The accessory work you choose to improve your snatch should depend on where your limitations are for the lift.  Here’s a drill I use as a warm-up frequently to help improve position in the snatch.

Try it in your warm-up before your next snatch session.

Snatch it up,

Dan Pope DPT, CSCS

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As you guys are all probably aware of by now, having adequate ankle flexibility is important for achieving a deep squat.  What is important is being able to distinguish between whether you actually have an ankle flexibility problem or not.  Lucky for us this can be done with an easy assessment:

Passed but still can’t squat?  You can be reasonably sure that ankle mobility isn’t the issue.  How about if you failed?  Here are some of my favorite exercises to address that:

Happy Ankling,

Dan Pope DPT, CSCS

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Physical therapist Dr. Erson Religioso has been a huge influence on my career as a physical therapist.  I’ve been following his blog for the past few years incorporating several of his thoughts and ideas successfully into my own clinical practice.  He’s been a major mentor to me over this time periods (most likely without him realizing it).  Lucky enough for me we’ve been able to collaborate some an he’s had some of my articles featured on his site www.physioanswers.com.  Some time back Dr. Erson Religioso gave me a few of his products to try out at my clinic.  Among those were:

The EDGE Mobility Tool

The EDGE Mobility Bands

The EDGE Mobility Balls

Since then, not a day has gone by where I haven’t used one of these products.  I’ve had the opportunity to try several IASTM devices (Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization).  Some products out there are extremely expensive while others are much cheaper but are not stainless steal and don’t have the same feel of the EDGE tool.  The EDGE tool is a great combination of quality at an extremely reasonable price (Go ahead and search the prices of other stainless steal IASTM tools, I dare you.  Try not the throw up).

The EDGE mobility bands I use frequently for ankle mobility and the edge balls for self soft tissue mobilization.  I’m a huge fan of giving patients the tools to treat themselves and adding …read more