Bar Path
You Are Pulling the Bar Around Your Knees
The fault
The bar arcs out and around the knees instead of the knees clearing out of its way.
Why it happens
The bar should chase you. The knees negotiate the bar, not the other way around. When the bar goes around the knees it ends up in front of the body with nothing left to pull against.
The fix
Pause at the knee. Feel the bar stay close as the knees move back and then forward under it. Do enough reps that the path becomes what you do without thinking about it.
About this fix
Originally published as "How to Fix Your Bar Path" on 15 February 2016, part of The Lifting Fix, a free weekly weightlifting technique series Danny Lehr ran from June 2015 to December 2016. Every episode is free here and always will be. For the full structured course, see the professionally filmed program.
