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Snatch Grip Deadlift (Barbell)

A deadlift with a wide, snatch-width grip that starts the bar lower and asks more of the upper back.

Pattern
Hip hinge
Equipment
Barbell
Works
Glutes, hamstrings, lower back, upper back
Loads
Hips, knees, lower back

If something hurts

Not medical advice. Sharp pain, numbness or swelling needs someone qualified to look at it.

Each swap below spares one joint.

Hip extension with the back supported and no knee bend.
Hip extension with the back supported and no knee bend.

When it stalls, these usually help

Direct work for your hamstrings, which this lift also depends on.
Direct work for your lower back, which this lift also depends on.

How Swolver coaches it

This lift is read from your own sessions. When it goes flat for four weeks, Swolver names the likely cause in plain words, such as weekly sets that dropped, and the one change to make. The rules are all on the method page.

Snatch Grip Deadlift (Barbell): joints, swaps and alternatives · Swolver