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Thank you so much for checking out today's show.

This is episode 129 of the Squat University podcast.

The goal with each and every one of these shows is to bring you as much value pat content to help you move better in the gym and in

life, decrease your body's aches and pains and help you reach your true athletic potential.

Now in today's episode, I got to sit down again with two-time Olympian Chad Vaughn for another

quick tips episode to improve your

Olympic lifts. Today we were talking specifically about the jerk. So without further ado,

let's just jump right into it. I hope you guys enjoy the show. So Chad, let's start off.

What is your quick tip for improving the jerk? Yeah, absolutely. You know, I really love this tip because it is

something that I've seen make quicker change in just anything in Olympic lifting in general,

in at least than anything else. Just, and it's, it's about slowing them down. And usually with any

movement that you're talking about, you know, gymnastics, whatever, weightlifting, by slowing things down, you can obviously help make change.

But this is more so about slowing down the setup process of the jerk and making sure that

you're, you're braced and you're ready to go into the movement. From there, of course,

we can slow down the movement.

We should probably slow down the dip as well.

But I find by stopping people between the clean and the jerk or stopping them

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