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At Home Baseball S&C

At Home Baseball S&C

Westside Barbell 3 minute read

Louie Simmons | Exercise Programming | Strength Training Methods | Strength Training Program

    When at home with only the basics, it is more than possible to continue to grow and improve at one’s chosen sport. In this case, we’ll take a look...

Training the Overhead Press

Training the Overhead Press

Westside Barbell 3 minute read

Louie Simmons | Exercise Programming | Strength Training Methods | Strength Training Program

    When training at home or the gym, a universal standard of strength is the overhead press (OHP). This is a very common movement in strongman, and...

Westside Barbell: Gym Based Home Workouts Wk.4

Westside Barbell: Gym Based Home Workouts Wk.4

Westside Barbell 2 minute read

Louie Simmons | Exercise Programming | Home Gym Training | Strength Training Methods | Strength Training Program

Below is the forth week of bare-bones conjugate style workouts you can do to for your strength as well as increase GPP.   -Work up to a 3 Rep Max...

Bench Pressing Tips

Bench Pressing Tips

Louie Simmons 5 minute read

Louie Simmons | Exercise Programming | Strength Training Methods | Strength Training Program

Tags: bench, triceps, max effort     Westside has had six men hold the all-time bench press record along with DaveHoff making the biggest full-meet bench...

Westside Barbell: GPP Home Workouts Wk.4

Westside Barbell: GPP Home Workouts Wk.4

Westside Barbell 2 minute read

Louie Simmons | Exercise Programming | Home Gym Training | Strength Training Methods | Strength Training Program

*extra workouts *DO NOT break up the reps within the set, the idea is to go past the a normal ‘high’ repetition limit   Ultra Wide Push-up 1xMax Reps...

Avoid Boredom

Avoid Boredom

Westside Barbell 1 minute read

Louie Simmons | Exercise Programming | Strength Training Methods | Strength Training Program

      When training at home, at times lack of equipment can be present a road block in terms of stimulation. Below are tried and true methods we’ve...

Training Basic

Training Basic

Westside Barbell 2 minute read

Louie Simmons | Exercise Programming | Strength Training Methods | Strength Training Program

    Think back to the 1980s, when Louie trained in his basement and garage. There existed no specialty equipment, and yet he and his training partners...

Westside Barbell: Gym Based Home Workouts Wk.3

Westside Barbell: Gym Based Home Workouts Wk.3

Westside Barbell 2 minute read

Louie Simmons | Exercise Programming | Home Gym Training | Strength Training Methods | Strength Training Program

Below is the third week of bare-bones conjugate style workouts you can do to for your strength as well as increase GPP.   -Work up to a 3 Rep Max Good...

Westside Barbell: GPP Home Workouts Wk.3

Westside Barbell: GPP Home Workouts Wk.3

Westside Barbell 2 minute read

Louie Simmons | Exercise Programming | Home Gym Training | Strength Training Methods | Strength Training Program

*extra workouts   These catch up to you quick, and are executed in the following fashion: Set 1: exercise 1 Set 2: exercise 1&2 Set 3: exercise 1, 2,...