Episode 335/365: Tunnel Backwards To Improve Overhead

Great video as always Kelley. This clears up a question that I recently posed to a friend at a Olympic Lifting Clinic. The instructor was demonstrating the overhead lock out position and he was taught to internally rotate vice externally rotate due to the fact that it allows the elbow to point back instead of down seeming more stable. Like I thought this is probably the cause for most of his wrist pain. Still an amazing lifter just not in an optimal position.

this is going to be fun… twisting myself up! OUCH!
I’ve been trying to teach my athletes about this: start strong, end strong. Start right, end right. I have one athlete that is pretty much uncoachable and does presses and jerks with the back of his hand touching his inner collarbone! it looks like hes pulled a SDHP clean! and his overhead pos sucks! will def use this on him. thanks.

thanks kelly.
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Thanks for this video Kelly, I’ve seen lots of athletes with this problem and I’ve always though that the elbow was the limitation. Very enlightning! Once again thanks.