How to Overcome Squat Sticking Points
The barbell squat is an exercise that nearly all athletes can use to improve their sports performance. This exercise focuses on developing the anterior and posterior chains, which...
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The Front Squat
The Westside Barbell Conjugate Method offers many strength and athletic development training options for a coach or athlete. One of the most beneficial aspects of our training methods...
The Safety Bar Squat
The Conjugate Method is a multifaceted training method designed to maximize the use of strength and conditioning tools to cause specific training effects and improve sport-relevant strength and...
The Reverse Hack Squat
A hack squat is a machine you will find in many gyms. It is a useful lower-body training tool, most often used to strengthen the muscles that make...
Proper Execution of a Box Squat
No matter the sport you compete in, every athlete can benefit from improved lower body strength and muscle development. If you wish to become strong, explosive, and fast,...
The Giant Cambered Bar: King of All Specialty Barbells
The use of specialty bars is nothing new. Many years ago, Louie demonstrated to the strength and conditioning world the effectiveness of specialty barbells when used to train...
Box Squats for Raw Powerlifters - Execution and Programming
The box squat is an effective exercise variation of the conventional squat and is an especially useful tool in training multiple types of special strengths. For powerlifters, the...
WSBB Blog: 3 Max Effort Movements to Improve Your Squat Skills
If you are looking for one lift you can improve to help you become a better athlete, look no further than the squat. No matter what sport you...
WSBB Blog: Mastering the Squat I
Over the years, Westside Barbell has produced countless 1000lb+ squatters and 800lb+ deadlifters. When it comes to training the lower body, the Conjugate Method offers the most comprehensive...
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: Fix Your Squat Weakness
Tag: Hamstring, Squat 101, Mentality Designing a training program for the squat is extremely simple when you first begin training. All you have to focus on learning to squat,...
WSBB Blog: Advanced Box Squatting
Tags: Squat 101, Chains and Bands, Conjugate Method Time to read: 2,5 min Westside Barbell has popularized many different exercises, specialty bars, and training modalities over the...