I love Olympic Lifting.
Because I hate Olympic Lifting.
It beats me up.
It beats me down.
It is demoralizing.
I can count a handful of times in my life when I felt the amazing fluid pull and catch of a perfect Snatch.
But those times were AMAZING.
They made me feel more alive and more human than any other movement.
Those perfectly executed snatches made me feel like an athlete
Why is that?
There are Ten Fundamentals of Fitness:
- Cardiovascular/respiratory endurance.
- Stamina.
- Strength.
- Flexibility.
- Agility.
- Balance.
- Coordination.
- Accuracy.
- Power.
- Speed.
To be a fully functioning physical human being – you need all of these components.
See if you can hit the perfect snatch without any one of them.
Is the Snatch actually a functional movement – no.
But you will be hard pressed to find any other single movement that teaches you the complex neural pathways to combine more of the ten fundamentals than the Snatch.
Want to be a better physical human and only able to do one thing? Snatch.
Then get ready to spend the rest of your life perfecting it.