Bar Path
You Drag the Bar Up Your Thighs and Throw Your Hips
The fault
The bar never gets back into the hip, so the hips lunge forward to meet it.
Why it happens
Dragging the bar up the thighs means it is out in front of the hip crease. The only way to make contact from there is to throw the pelvis forward, which sends the bar out and away instead of up.
The fix
Practice bringing the bar back in with the lats while simply standing up. Once the bar arrives at the hip rather than the thigh, the throw stops being necessary.
About this fix
Originally published as "How To Stop Looping The Bar" on 16 November 2015, 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.

