Any time you are lifting heavy, safety should be your number one concern. While hitting your target weight or besting your record is important, doing it unsafely could lead to injury and time away from your workouts.
In our industry, we see a wide range of safety devices, designed to make lifting weights safer and more effective. These safety devices can be innovative and elaborate, or something as simple as a weightlifting belt, or jerk blocks. For this article, we are going to take a look at jerk blocks and see why you need them and how they are used. With that being said, let’s get started:
What Are Jerk Blocks?
What are jerk blocks? To simplify it, jerk blocks are an important piece of safety equipment that any workout facility should have. Jerk blocks eliminate the need to constantly re-rack or catch the bar when performing the jerk portion of the clean-and-jerk. Also known as Olympic weightlifting technique boxes, jerk blocks are easy to use, stackable, raised platforms that enable you to keep the barbell a couple of feet above the floor. This makes practising your jerk technique easier and safer.
Jerk blocks are adjustable, giving you a wide range of possibilities when it comes to weightlifting. Another benefit of jerk blocks is that when built properly and used correctly, they shouldn’t move or jump when the bars are dropped. Jerk blocks can also be used for squatting or pressing exercises and similar devices are often used in strongman competitions around the world.
Wooden Olympic Jerk Blocks
UK Supreme Fitness offers a range of custom-tailored, heavy-duty precision-engineered jerk blocks. Wooden Olympic Jerk Blocks from UK Supreme Fitness is built to be durable, reliable and easy to use. They are made to order, CNC manufactured and custom-tailored to your exact needs. Everything from the height and width, to the number of blocks and your gym’s name and logos, can be changed to suit your needs.
Wooden Olympic Jerk Blocks from UK Supreme Fitness are made from high-quality, double layer birch plywood and offers a large 60mm adjustable drop area on each block. Each stack of jerk blocks contains four separate height blocks (8 in total) – 39cm, 30cm, 15cm, 6cm.
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