Monday, November 05, 2007

Things you should know.


I can't believe how many people who are "into" strength are not intimately familiar with Louie Simmon's writings and research. THings you should know is a great article.

5 comments:

MikeC in NZ RKC said...

Great stuff .. I love Westside stuff. When I lifted WSB methods weren't as widely known and there was real resistance from so called experts to using their methods. I often wondered why so called "Top Lifters" continued to use a standard training method of so many weeks of 10's, then 8's then 5's then 3's. So many lifters trained like they did years ago and then wondered why they couldn't lift more tan lifters of years ago... go figure

Taikei Matsushita said...

That's a great article.
One worth to embed in my mind.
Kneeling squat? reading it and I'm about to puke. Might as well try with kettlebells ?

BJ Bliffert said...

Great Article Rif!

Mark Reifkind said...

takei,

kneeling squats look terrible but I could never do them because my knee doesnt bend enough.You can get very very strong in them as you have great leverage in that position. My training partner in the late nineties, steve silver would do 600 pounds for reps when he could only back squat in the fives.

Joe Sarti said...

WOW! That about says it!

175 x 1 x 5, 185 x 1 x 5 ( layback style) 16 kg five mine 15:15 swing test 100 reps

 This took a few warmup sets ( and almost tweaking my tricep again with  95!) but I think it went well over I just have to 'THINK RIGHT...