The #snatch50everydayprogram is a satirical look at the internet weightlifting coaches and quick-fix e-books market for a mentally and physically taxing sport like weightlifting, showing humorously that most athletes are products of nothing more than hard work and effort over time totally awesome and legitimate way to maximize your lifting potential and general athleticism. So let’s take a look!
How #snatch50everyday Came About
The #snatch50everydayprogram truly changed my life. But it took time to revolutionize weightlifting as I know it. It was discovered by chance one morning workout when I decided I would base my lifting off of how 50 kilograms (110 pounds) felt warming up.
Spoiler alert: It felt fantastic. I never knew 27% of my best snatch could ever feel so good.
I then had a mediocre day, snatching 70% for several reps and clean & jerking the same percentage for reps. Nothing felt right, and I left the workout tired and fatigued.
But it started a thought. And that thought came to fruition the very next day when I snatched 50kg again. I then had some of the best training I’d ever had, hitting 90% and more, all flawlessly and effortlessly. I realized, if two days of snatching this weight made me feel this good, how great would I feel doing it three days? Four? Five? More? It was then that I knew I was onto something. Consciously snatching 50 kilos everyday has changed my life, and I’ve never looked back.
A common myth about training is that success happens overnight. But success and programming success doesn’t always happen overnight; most often, it takes like two or three days.
What is the #snatch50everydayprogram?
Most people can’t figure out what the #snatch50everydayprogram just by looking at its name. So allow me to do my best in breaking it down: in its simplest form, the #snatch50everydayprogram is a workout where you snatch 50 kilograms every day. This is a totally awesome and legitimate way to maximize your lifting potential and general athleticism. Having doubts? Just read this article’s first sentence again. You can trust me.
However, this really just scratches the surface, and in this blog, I will work to reveal the secrets and intricacies of the program, as well as share my bit of knowledge of the sport. The #snatch50everydayprogram is more than just snatching. It’s more than just 50 kilograms. It’s more than just everyday. It’s more than just a program.
It’s a lifestyle.
And then again, it’s more than just a lifestyle too. It’s on a whole other level.
Like if a lifestyle lived on the first floor of an apartment, the #snatch50everydayprogram would be in the penthouse. Yeah, that level.
Why Listen to Me?
By now, you’re surely wondering, “But why? Why listen to you, Caine?” “Is this really as amazing of a workout as it seems to be?” “Is this a ploy to boost sales of 15kg plates?” “Did I leave the oven on?”
Well, check your oven, and then I’ll explain where my experience lies.
You might think that this is the part where I talk about how I’m a five-time national champion in weightlifting. How I’ve been part of four world teams. Or how I have won two Pan American Weightlifting Championships – 2014 & 2017. People might even think that I’d tout about my most recent and arguably greatest accomplishment in weightlifting, a new personal record in the snatch pull + snatch pull + hang snatch + hang snatch + snatch + overhead squat + snatch drop + overhead squat + clean complex (it was 90kg, or something like that).
While I’ve been in the sport of weightlifting for nineteen years now, nothing prepares me for the #snatch50everydayprogram as much as living life. As stated before, the #snatch50everydayprogram is not just a program; it’s a lifestyle. So why limit my experience to just the things that pertain to weightlifting? I have only nineteen years of experience there, whereas I have over thirty years of experience in living life. Thirty!
So here is the real deal. Here is what really qualifies me to be talking to you: sure I weightlift. But I also draw, paint, read, and write. I’m multifaceted. I like walks on the beach, dinners by candlelight, sunsets and driving into them. I can jump really high (for my size). I can do math in my head pretty well (for my size). I cried reading the book Where the Red Fern Grows. I can cook up a mean grilled cheese (for my size). I have lived.
None of this applies to this program or lifestyle; but then again, it all does. That’s life. A lifestyle.
Are you fired up? Cause that’s really the main thing. Start snatching 50 kilograms everyday in life.
That’s why I’m the person you need to listen to for this program. You’re welcome.
Step by Step Instructions to Snatching 50 Everyday
Equipment for male lifters:
20 kilogram barbell (1)
15 kilogram plates (2, preferably yellow)
collars or clips (2, not weighted, optional)
Equipment for female lifters:
15 kilogram barbell (1)
15 kilogram plates (2, preferably yellow)
2.5 kilogram plates (2, preferably red)
collars or clips (2, not weighted, optional)
Assembly
- Take bar. Set on floor.
- Take 15 kilogram plates. Slide one plate on each side of the barbell, making sure to slide the plate entirely and snugly onto the barbell. (If using a 15 kilogram bar, repeat this step with the 2.5 plates.) The bar should slide right through the hole in the center of each plate.
- Repeat the sliding-on process with the clips or collars, if applicable.
Execution
- Grip the now-50kg barbell on the floor with both hands, preferably in a snatch grip.
- Snatch 50 kilograms.
- Set bar down gently. The bar can be slammed, but really, it’s 50 kilograms; who are you trying to impress? And why hurt the bar? What has 50 kilograms ever done to you, aside from day by day making you the elite weightlifter you were meant to be?
It’s as simple as that!
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: How much weight should I use?
A: While specifics are hard to reach, and arguments and debates still are held over the numbers, the general consensus is that 50kg is how much weight you should use. But there are many schools of thought.
Q: How often should I snatch?
A: Snatch 50 kilograms every day. There are no different schools of thought on this one.
Q: Why 50 kilograms?
A: Partly because it is more than 49 kilograms. Partly because it is less than 51 kilograms.
Q: Are there any rest days while on the program?
A: No. That’s why it is very important to monitor the intensity of your workout. Overtraining is a very real threat in the #snatch50everydayprogram. Recovery is essential. Make sure to stay hydrated and get plenty of sleep while on the #snatch50everydayprogram.
Q: Why the hashtag?
A: It legitimizes the program and marks the program as current, hip, and now. But really, if you have to ask, you just won’t get it. #2legit2quit
Q: Is there any wiggle room to the programming?
A: Any good programming should have some wiggle room for athletes who know better than their coaches, as well as some wiggle room to deload from the more intense days of lifting.
There you have it, avid reader and lifter. That is the #snatch50everydayprogram in a nutshell. If you still have questions, please refer to figure 1 (above). Otherwise, get out there and live the lifestyle of a #snatch50er!