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don't really know if this is the case with everybody else out there, but it certainly is for me. i hurt my back a while ago (lost concentration and rounded my back while doing bent BB rows), so last week i was just trying to get back into the swing of things using light weight and seeing how my back responded. so i'm doing my upper body work and it comes down to my last move which is a shrug of some sort. so i set up a bar with 225 to do some light shrugging. i was hitting 12's easily and not wanting to go higher weight or higher reps i wanted to make it as hard for myself as i could, which led me to using a snatch grip for the shrugs. lo and behold i couldn't even hold on to the bar for 12 reps. so can anyone gimme a biomechanical breakdown of why its so much harder to hold the bar using a snatch grip? i've racked my brain with the little psychic energy i have left after studying for all of my finals and still couldn't figure it out so i digress and throw it out there for you smart people.