Louie Simmons' 353-page guide to building the special strength required for the snatch and the clean and jerk. The Westside Conjugate Method applied to Olympic weightlifting.
Olympic weightlifters obsess over technique. Louie's argument is that strength has been forgotten. Weight classes exist because strength matters, and the Olympic lifts ultimately reward the lifter who has built the deepest reservoir of special strengths to draw from.
This book is a methodology, not a technique manual. It teaches what to do in the strength training that supports the snatch and clean and jerk, drawing from the special exercise libraries of the former Soviet Union, the East Bloc lifting programs, and the Westside system itself.
What's inside
- Special squats: box squats, belt squats, and shock methods
- Speed strength training and the power snatch and pull variations
- Maximal effort, dynamic effort, and submaximal repeated effort methods
- Plyometrics and depth jump methodology for weightlifters
- Box squatting and accommodating resistance with bands and chains
- Three-week speed strength wave periodization
- Programming examples from a 400-pound to a 1,000-pound squat
- Speed pulls, sumo deadlifts, and box deadlifts as accessory methods
- Long-term athlete development from age nine through the high-performance stage
- Comparisons of the Russian, Bulgarian, Chinese, and Westside methods
From Louie
"I am writing this book on the development of special strengths to help raise individual lifts, specifically the snatch and the clean and jerk. The value of top strength has been forgotten. If strength did not matter, then there would be no need for weight classes."
The book draws on Louie's knowledge of Soviet sport science (Zatsiorsky, Verkhoshansky, Medvedyev, Roman, Laputin, Oleshko, Dvorkin, Ermakov, Atanasov, Prilepin) translated by Andrew Charniga Jr., and on Louie's own four decades of producing world-class powerlifters at Westside Barbell.
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Pages: 353
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Format: PDF instant download
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Author: Louie Simmons
