Louie Simmons | Exercise Programming | Strength Training Methods | Training Methods & Techniques
Everyone should know what accommodation is. Accommodation causes your performance to stagnate or decrease. Zatsiorsky stated that the response of a biological...
Louie Simmons | Exercise Programming | Strength Training Methods | Training Methods & Techniques
In the late 1960s isometrics were used not only by the Soviets but also here in the United States by the York Barbell team. They were very effective but...
Louie Simmons | Exercise Programming | Strength Training Methods | Training Methods & Techniques
Isometrics have been around since the 1950s. It was an effective method to develop strength at a particular angle and affordable to most because of the limited...
Louie Simmons | Exercise Programming | Strength Training Methods | Training Methods & Techniques
I am asked all the time what we do with kettle bells. Although they have been around forever, they have once again become the rage. There are kettle...
Louie Simmons | Exercise Programming | Strength Training Methods | Training Methods & Techniques
I have written about overspeed eccentrics, citing why it is so important to lower the bar as fast as possible to produce the most powerful stretch...
Louie Simmons | Exercise Programming | Lower Body | Strength Training Methods | Training Methods & Techniques
When one thinks of rack work, Bob Peoples comes to mind. He was a powerlifting pioneer. His 725 deadlift at 185 in the 1940s and 1950s is legendary. Bob...
Louie Simmons | Exercise Programming | Strength Training Methods | Training Methods & Techniques
Have you ever thought that ideas should be reversed? What if we were born with the wisdom and the reasoning of a 65-year-old? We would make more right...
Louie Simmons | Exercise Programming | Strength Training Methods | Training Methods & Techniques
Do you know the importance of special strength development? What are the velocities of explosive strength and isometric strength? The answer is high...
Louie Simmons | Exercise Programming | Olympic Weightlifting | Strength Training Methods | Training Methods & Techniques
In this article the training methods of the most successful countries in weight lifting will be examined. In Bulgaria, where many of the greatest...
