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Single Arm Snatch

Equipment - Dumbbell or tins of fruit/beans
Area: Back, shoulders, thighs and buttocks
Muscle Group: Deltoid, Erector Spinae, Glutes and Quads

You can do this exercise with or without weights.

• Stand with your feet shoulder width apart
• Take one arm across your body to centre line, and place the other arm in centre of your back palm facing outwards
• Keep your head in neutral position and your shoulders back for a good posture
• Keep your belly button drawn in and sit into an imaginary chair - ensure your shoulders stay behind your knees and your knees are in line with the second and third toe, behind the toe line - inhale
• Allow your arm to hang freely
• Keeping your head and chest lifted look out to the horizon
• Return to the standing position (whilst exhaling) and raise your arm straight out in front and then above your head - ensure your bicep remains forward of the ear