Louie created a method for the advanced and elite athletes to train and progress FOREVER. Or till they get old. This is a HUGE LEGACY not only for him, but for humanity in general. No more plateus for the advanced. This is HUGE man. People that have not born yet, will thank this sir for years. It was great he was with us.
Your down-to-earth and objective home gym site is the on the internet. And I've used used Louie's revolutionary machines and training protocols. Over twenty years ago Louie Simmons saw the value of my revolutionary Football Bar, and Westside now has three of them. RIP Louie Simmons.
Some cool Louie influenced moves- Box squats Seated box jumps Also he’d have folks sit on the ground on their knees with a barbell on their back and jump onto their feet. Good move even unloaded. Most of the videos with Louie are gems but I particularly like the one where Stefi Cohen and her crew visit him and he gives her great pointers on her deadlift and they use some of the machines he’d designed
I love Nordic hamstring curls but being 6’3” over 300 lbs there really hard get enough accommodation. I also love ab rollouts but same issue plus I have really long arms. The solution? I do both at the same time. Hamstring assisted ab rollouts. Or rollout assisted nordics. Wish I had room for the machine though that would be dope.
If you have a rack, something I've been doing is to put my feet under the bottom support on the side. I use bands over the flip down safety, and hold one in each hand to assist (hands up near my shoulders--think the bottom of a bench press). You can obviously switch the bands to change the assistance, but the cool part is that you can also move the safety up or down holes to change the tension on the bands, and fine-tune the assistance. It's a nice setup to progress, and you can really dial it in with a little effort.
I have a 1994 model Reverse Hyper in my garage gym. It was purchased directly from Louie Simmons in 1996. No strength coach has ever given so much to so many for so little. I called Westside in 1997 to ask some questions about the program. Louie answered the phone and talked to me for so long that I started to feel uncomfortable, like I was taking up too much of his time. However, before we ended the call he said "if you ever need anything else just give me a call". I was a 19 year old nobody. Louie Simmons, Born: October 12, 1947; Died: NEVER!
He also helped popularize Williams/Tate Press, Tricep Rollbacks, Dimel Deadlifts, and Zercher Squats. Equipment wise he also made sleds popular. Did a CF seminar at Westside years ago, one of the best weekends in my life. On the deadlift, he takes me aside, a nobody, tells me to be loose, then tight, punches me in the gut to motivate me and I go pull 430 for the first time on the Westisde Platform.
I developed a disk problem in my lower back and called Westside. I talked directly to Louie and he gave me some great advice and turned me onto to the belt squat. That was many years ago and thanks to his advice I was able to eventually return to barbell squats. Thank you Louie, I’m 60 and still going strong. RIP bro.
Louie truly cared abotu people and the sport, he was a guardian angel for most, and helped reformed many peoples lives who he coached. If he could have it his way, he'd probably clone himself just so he could help more people in the fitness industry. He was tough and old school, rough around the edges. But he genuinely cared for people's health and wanted to see people succeed.
Mike Bartos Power Center has a pulley system that can have a training partner restrict movement of the barbell (for deadlifts) that closely mimics the Static Dynamic device from WestSide. I watched a recent video w/ Jujimufu when he trained in MB's basement and he explained how it works.
@@GarageGymReviews back in the 60-70's there was the exer geni : the company is still around: we did a circuit before each football practice: you could hold 10 seconds and then a max exercise. It's not that expensive and can be used with a rack for isometrics.
My gym has a reverse hyper from West Side Barbell but incorporated a Keiser pneumatic machine with it. You CANNOT cheat the rep with this setup, you can't just throw it up and drop it back down. You have to work through the entire rep. It's amazing.
I thank Louie Simmons for the Hip Belt squat for me and my father. My dad has Spinal stenosis, and the hip belt squat is saving him from loading his spine.
Louie created a method for the advanced and elite athletes to train and progress FOREVER. Or till they get old. This is a HUGE LEGACY not only for him, but for humanity in general. No more plateus for the advanced. This is HUGE man. People that have not born yet, will thank this sir for years. It was great he was with us.
Westside spacing? See those annoyingly close holes in your rack that are a nightmare to line up your safeties on, that's from Louie and is called westside spacing. He also brought variety bars into the mainstream, sled work. Fairly sure he invented the bench cage as well. So much of what we do now was popularised by Louie. Other great inventors like Donnie Thompson, Mark Bell and Spud Inc were all westside lifters as well. People nowadays are so quick to judge westside on geared lifting and conjugate they are blind to the fact Westside made gyms what they are today. Look round your gym and there's probably something you have that wouldn't be there or designed that way if it wasn't for westside barbell.
The picture where you the standing on two blocks and a hole for belt squat Got old bodybuilding book can't remember the time period think around 1930's there's pictures of demonstrating that exercise exactly the same as that picture
Its interesting how adding bands was revolutionary, but X3 bar and other band systems are a "scam". Like if the ratio of latex to metal gets too high, it invalidates your results.
Wouldn't it be fairly easy for a smart gym like tonal to implement the static dynamic developer? They just hold a bunch of force so you can't pull it and then program it to let go and let you pull it at the weight specified.
Now that I think of it my little 3x3m room has so much LS influence. Westside spacing power rack, Westside scout, bands and chains. From a home gym perspective it really is a great way to get the most bang for your buck.
Awesome video. Glad to see this. Thanks for making it. Louie inspired so many, including me, to actually pick up weights and want to improve. Westside aside, watching his videos and studying the history of him and his gym has motivated me to pick up weights back in the day and train with intensity. RIP Louie.
Mike Bartos has a deadlift isometric/release add on for his PR Platform. Much more affordable and will actually fit in a home gym. He puts out super high quality stuff.
instead of the inverse curl, I do glute-ham raises on a lat-pulldown machine, and for reps, put a half a bosu ball in front of you and use your hands/arms
Outstanding video! From the presentation, points made, to the clearly defined segments. If it wasn't for Louie Simmons teaching the majority of the people I learned from I know I wouldn't be where I'm at today.
Please go visit Westside barbell and have them give you a tour and talk about Louie Simmons. A major thing that Louie Did with the bell squat was Del squat in between giant tractor tires and he can see that from some of his old school videos
there probably isn't any single person who has had more influence on strength and powerlifting training than Louie. Even people who don't like Westside or conjugate, or people who have never heard of it or Louie, likely incorporate a lot of exercises, methodology and even fashion (he popularized hitting the weights with a baseball cap and chucks) into their routines. Strength training and powerlifting probably wouldn't even be half as popular as they are now without Louie.
No offense, the reverse hyper has not been used throughout the entire world, I doubt that there is even one single machine in scandinavia.. in any case, none in any gym what so ever. and I personally wouldn't use it either, and I'm not saying it's bad, I'm simply stating that it was an exaggeration. The belt squat on the other hand, that is a game changer for many.
Louie talked all the time about his friend Sakari (unsure of spelling) from Sweden, and Eskel, a Finnish power lifter that trained w them before going home to Finland.
