Developing the Hips
The hips may be the most overlooked muscle group for improving sports performance. At Westside, we say the key to strength and speed is from the top of...
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Hamstring Injury Prevention
There are far too many hamstring injuries that lead to knee injuries that could cause the season to end for the athlete and sometimes the team’s season. The...
Isometric Training
Isometric training is an almost forgotten method of strength training. However, according to notable strength experts from the former Soviet Union, it can be equal to conventional barbell...
2021 Metal Milita Summer Smackdown
Tags: Squat, Bench, Deadlift Jeremy Smith blew up the 123 World Squat and Bench Records at the Smackdown meet in Erie Pa. With first a 675 All-Time...
Developing Special Endurance
Tags: Plan, Strength, Explosive Strength Time to Read: 5mins Westside Barbell would seem like the last place to talk about special endurance. Our powerlifters must increase all muscles’...
WSBB Article: The Journey
Tags: Reflect, Journey, TrainingTime to Read: 7-8 mins In life and sports, everyone must look up to someone or something. And that person or thing you look...
Special Devices
Tags: Bars, Conjugate, Variation Time to Read: 6.5min The Westside System divides work volume into 20 percent and 80 percent. The barbell volume mostly calculates the 20 percent...
Programs for the Olympic Lifter
Programs for the Olympic Lifter Tags: Olympic, Conjugate, Speed Time to Read: 5 Min Westside Barbell has broken more than 100, actually close to 140, all-time world records....
The Luckiest Man Alive
By Louie Simmons Tags: Conjugate, Westside, ThoughtsTime to Read: 5min It may sound like I am not lucky to hear my story, but it was a long journey...
Equipment to Train Properly
By Louie Simmons Tags: Reverse Hyper, Home Gym, Sleds I competed in powerlifting contests from 1966 to 2011. During that time, I made the top 10 lists for...
Speed-Strength Periodization
Tags Squats, Dynamic Effort, Bench For the development of speed-strength, one should use the Combinations of Methods training. Westside has had great success with adding bands to the...
Hey, Coach. You Can’t Be Too Strong.
By Louie Simmons Tags, Special Strength, Explosive Strength, Coaching Years ago, I heard the head strength coach at Tennessee University say to his audience that he did not...