Which of the following is NOT listed as a major lift to practice?

• A. Bench press
• B. Clean and Jerk
• C. Deadlift
• D. Snatch

Answer: (A)

Major lifts to practice are movements that involve large, multi-joint patterns and high athletic transfer, driven by full-body coordination and hip drive. In CrossFit-style programming, that set typically includes the deadlift and the Olympic lifts—the snatch and the clean and jerk—because they recruit the largest muscle groups and mirror functional athletic movements. The bench press, while valuable for upper-body strength, is mainly an upper-body pressing exercise and doesn’t engage the hips and posterior chain in the same integrated way. It’s usually treated as an accessory lift rather than one of the primary lifts to train. For that reason, the bench press is not listed among the major lifts to practice, whereas the other three are.