WSBB Blog: Westside Warmups - Minibands
When you enter the gym, the goal is always to have the highest quality training session possible. In order for this to happen, an athlete must do the...
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WSBB Blog: Back Building 101
The benefits of having a strong, well-developed back cannot be overstated. The muscle groups that make up the musculature of the back are not only responsible for the...
WSBB Blog: The Barbell Business
In the 1970s, Louie Simmons founded the Westside Barbell Club in Columbus, Ohio. Long committed to a life of strength and conditioning, Louie was a blue-collar tradesman realizing...
WSBB Blog: Strong Shoulders = Healthy Shoulders
It is no secret that the shoulders play a tremendous role in strength sports. Powerlifting requires an athlete to have strong shoulders for bench pressing, while strongman and...
WSBB Blog: Building General Endurance for Strongman
No matter the strength sport, there is always a level of general endurance needed to train and compete at a high level. The strength sport that requires the...
WSBB Blog: Strong Lats, Strong Bench
Out of the three powerlifts, the bench press is the lift that requires the highest level of precision to complete. With most powerlifters, the squat and deadlift movements...
WSBB Blog: How to Program Max Effort Lower
When designing a Conjugate Method program, you must know how to properly organize each training day to get the most out of your programming on a week-to-week basis....
WSBB Blog: How to Program Max Effort Upper
No matter what sport you participate in, having a strong upper body is essential for overall sports performance and injury avoidance. To develop a strong upper body, athletes...
WSBB Blog: Conjugate for Firefighters
When it comes to physically demanding jobs, few can compare to firefighting. Whether you are using heavy duty tools to extract an injured person, climbing up and down...
WSBB Blog: Box Squat Success
If you know Westside Barbell, then you know that we have been utilizing dynamic effort box squats for years to increase the power and explosiveness of our athletes....
WSBB Blog: Early Retirement
As the old saying goes, 'time waits for no one.' If you have been around a powerlifting gym, you have inevitably heard older lifters talk about how they...
WSBB Blog: Big Arms, Big Bench
Over the course of the last thirty years, Westside Barbell has had numerous lifters achieve 600lb raw benches, all the way up to 1000lb geared benches. It is...