Muscle snatch, why?
WHY” Why do you do a particular exercise? What is the issue you are trying to resolve? What can muscle snatch help with?
Its very easy to look at top lifters and mimic the things they do. People in general should think despite of, instead of because of. Those athletes have excellent genetics and perform so well even if the form is not perfect. Dont comare yourself with them.
Do you know what elevates the barbell in a snatch? Hips and legs, do you know the role of the arm in weightlifting? To pull yourself under the barbell, not to elevate the barbell.
That is to say, by the time the barbell passes the lifter’s waist, he/she should already be dropping down into the squat; which encompasses both the skill to move the body and produce a vertical lifting force against the barbell.
What happens in a Muscle snatch? The barbell lose velocity, the elbows goes under the barbell and the lifter press the barbell overhead… The moment the barbell is pressed up we lose all value of the exercise. So who should use it and why?
If your barbell is swinging the bar away from the body at the top of the snatch you can use it for warmups. BUT in that case only with so light weights that you never really press the barbell overhead.