A scoping review of the models to teach the split jerk in strength and conditioning

This scoping review highlights the gaps and inconsistencies in the existing literature around coaching the split jerk exercise in strength and conditioning (S&C). S&C practitioners commonly implement weightlifting movements and their derivatives, such as the split jerk, into their athlete training programs, without a comprehensive technical model to follow. Eleven articles were retrieved using electronic databases, and their contents systematically analysed. Four articles did not provide a technical model. Of the remaining seven articles, six used a learning sequence of establish exercises to teach the split jerk and one provided a novel technical model. The review concluded that there is a gap in the literature, and an absence of a detailed and bespoke technical model to teach the split jerk in S&C.