Double Kettlebell Jerk

How to do it

1. Clean two kettlebells to the rack position, bells on the forearms, elbows tucked.
2. Set your feet under your hips and brace your stomach.
3. Dip a few inches by bending the knees with the torso upright.
4. Drive up hard through the legs and send both bells off the shoulders.
5. Drop under them by rebending the knees, catching both locked out overhead.
6. Stand tall, then lower both to the rack under control.

Common mistakes

• Dipping by leaning forward. Two bells on the ribs pull the chest down, and the dip has to stay vertical against that.
• Pressing them out. The arms lock as the bells arrive; a press-out means the leg drive fell short.
• Letting the elbows drift out in the rack. Elbows tucked against the ribs is what makes the rack a shelf the legs can drive from.
• Catching on locked legs. Rebending the knees is what absorbs two bells arriving overhead at once.

Muscles worked

Primary

• Shoulders

Secondary

• Calves
• Quads
• Triceps