How To Bench 500 Pounds, Easy!
HOW TO BENCH PRESS 500 EASY! 2018 Update Everyone strives for a goal, one of which may be a 500 bench. The problem is how do you achieve...
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MORE BIG BENCHES
I was proud to write the article ‘Three of a Kind”, which reported that Westside had three 600-pound benchers. Only a few years later we have eight 600-pound...
OVERCOMING PLATEAUS
Your squat is going nowhere. No matter what you do it won’t increase. What can you do? Well first, let’s find the real problem. It can be several...
OVERCOMING PLATEAUS PART 2: THE BENCH PRESS
Everyone likes to bench press, but no one likes to get stuck. Not making progress is no fun and sometimes grounds for retirement. Only the strong at heart...
OVERCOMING PLATEAUS PART 3: THE DEADLIFT
Squat and bench press records are continually being set in recent years. It’s easy to see why. Most federations have a 24-hour weigh-in rule, which is a positive...
CHAIN REACTION: ACCOMMODATING LEVERAGES
Chain Reaction Because the human body is stronger at some positions than at others, we are limited as to the amount of weight we can use in a...
TRAINING THE BACK
At Westside we do an enormous amount of back work. This consists of upper and lower back work. The upper back plays a large role in all three...
ADVANCED SYSTEM FOR BEGINNERS
I hear all the time that Westside training is for the advanced and that only top 10 lifters can do the training that is required at Westside. It...
TRAINING METHODS PART 1: SPEED DAY
While recovering from my second lower back injury, for which doctors recommended removing two disks, taking off a bone spur, and fusing my vertebrae, with no guarantees, I...
TRAINING METHODS PART 2: MAX EFFORT DAY
In part 1 I wrote about the numerous methods that Westside uses on dynamic squat and bench day. Many methods are combined and rotated in the conjugate system....
THE BENCH PRESS SHIRT
There’s always a lot of talk today about the bench shirt. In the beginning everyone welcomed it on the scene. Unfortunately, bench shirts provided only a small increase...
CONJUGATE METHOD™ - (Circa 2004)
When lifters repeatedly use the same simple method of training to raise their strength level, they will eventually stall. Like the scholar who must utilize many sources of...