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...
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WSBB Blog: Building Bulletproof Hamstrings
There are many different muscles in the body; however, few muscles play as important a role as the hamstrings when it comes to lower body strength. If you...
WSBB Blog: Hamstring Training 101
Tags: Deadlift, GPP, Squat When it comes to powerlifting training, few muscle groups play as important of a role as the hamstrings do. In order to squat and deadlift...
WSBB Blog: Quick Guide to Hamstring Training
Tags: Deadlift, Good Morning, Accessory Time: 4min When training the posterior strength chain, no group of muscles is more important to focus on than the hamstrings. The hamstring muscles...
THE VIRTUAL FORCE SWING
At Westside Barbell we use the dynamic method throughout the year. Its purpose is not to build maximal strength but to improve the rate of force development and...
THE WESTSIDE BARBELL BELT SQUAT
The Secret Weapon in Strength and Conditioning At Westside Barbell we are constantly asked what is the most effective and versatile piece of equipment used to train a...
Equipment Education- Dual Pendulum Reverse Hyper
The Westside Barbell Dual Pendulum Reverse Hyper: … Or as I like to call it “The Swiss Army Knife” of Reverse Hypers. Users can get so much out...
Equipment Education- Standing Hamstring Curl Machine
The Westside Barbell Standing Hamstring Curl Machine: First let me preface this piece with a simple statement: There is NO such thing as quad dominant! There is only...
Equipment Education- Inverse Curl
In athletics the hamstrings are rarely, if ever used by themselves… so why should athletes train them only isolated? While its true hamstring curls have their place in...