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This is episode 138 of the Squat University podcast.

To go with each and every one of these shows is to bring you as much value-packed content to help you move better in the gym and in life, decrease your bodies aches and pains and help you reach your true athletic potential. Today I'm joined once again by two-time Olympian Chad Vaughn, which, Chad, I feel like we should just make you an official co-host by now. This is my university podcast, how frequently we've been doing these.

Yeah, I'm up for that.

Yeah, for sure.

Today, our quick tip is going to be on how focusing on parts of your lift can help you benefit the lift as a whole.

What I mean by that is sometimes on social media you'll see maybe an

Olympic weightlifter do a hang snatch rather than the full snatch or a bottom snatch press. So it's a

part of or a breakdown of the full left as a whole or maybe how a power lifter may do a rack pull.

So I pull from an elevated or a deadlift from an

elevated position. So we're going to talk about how focusing on parts of the lift can help you

benefit the movement as a whole. And I want to come at it from both a perspective for a healthy

athlete trying to train for performance and really benefit the lift

as far as how much you can lift and how well you can lift. But then also I want to come at it

from an injury perspective and let you guys have some insight into how I would use a partial

for an athlete that may be coming to me as a physical therapist who is having a problem

for an injury and how we can reincorporate

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