ORGANIZATION OF TRAINING PART 1
When planning training, one must not plan for the next meet, but rather the next year or even longer. The following are some issues to consider: Weight gain...
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363 articles · page 26 of 31ORGANIZATION OF TRAINING PART 2
When planning training, one must not plan for the next meet, but rather the next year or even longer. The following are some issues to consider: Weight gain...
PERCENT TRAINING: WHAT IS IT REALLY?
In the squat, what is too heavy to train with and too light to train with? In Russia , much research revealed that 65-82.5% of a 1 rep...
Programming and Organization of Training
When training for a meet, there must be organization of systems of training. This is called periodization. In 1917, Kotov, of the former Soviet Union, wrote a series...
2010 POWERSTATION PRO/AM MEET
As always, Mike Ferguson, owner of the Powerstation gym in Cincinnati, OH hosted a great three day meet on August 20-22nd. Mike’s motto is no mistakes and there...
A Multiyear Plan
Renowned sports scientist A. S. Medvedyev wrote a text called A System of Multi-Year Training in Weightlifting (1986). It was translated by Andrew Charniga, Jr. It presents a...
General Physical Preparedness
I am often asked, how do we recover from two max effort workouts a week on top of two high-volume speed days? The two max effort workouts are...
TOP FIVE SQUATS: PART I
We have 17 men who squat over 1000 pounds. The top five average 1143 pounds. Our top five totals equal 2690 pounds. How can one gym develop such...
TOP FIVE: PART II. THE BENCH
I wrote an article in 1993 entitled “Three of a Kind”. Westside was the only gym to have three 600-pound benchers: Kenny Patterson, George Halbert, and Jerry Obradovich....
TOP FIVE: PART III. THE DEADLIFT
Before bench shirts, there was a saying, “the meet does not start until the bar touches the floor”. At Westside, we have always had very good deadlifters: 18...
Strong Legs
Strong Legs (Circa 2011) Westside lifters started doing belt squats in 1975. I personally realized in the early 1970s that my quads were somewhat smaller than before I...
WAVE PERIODIZATION
You must have a plan to succeed” In Powerlifting USA, there was a discussion of what is the best training system. Everyone had an opinion, and of course...