This video was shot before everyone went nuts about Louie Writing a book on Olympic weightlifting and having travis cooper snatch with bands. Pretty good nuggets in this video.
Hang variations are done to develop the pull under and "catch", but also bar path depending on how low the hang is. Stretch reflex is understood, but developing it is not the purpose. Unless Louie is saying a weightlifter takes advantage of stretch reflex to pull under and catch weights that are heavier than they can lift from the floor. Which is the case for some, especially if legs are long.
This "reversal strength" (for Olympic lifters) does require "eccentric strength" (force absorption). This is one of the reasons for their very high vertical jumps. The greater the ability to "absorb" (resist) force the greater the ability to produce force. This is what the depth jump(reversal strength) and the "altitude drop" (eccentric strength) require (and develop). Of course, this is most productive and safe when you have a "base" of eccentric and isometric strength. One "Caveat"- You don't want to destroy your "stretch reflex"!
I was 19 when I first tried Westside Barbell. But honestly, for me it's nothing for a longrun but there are things you can carry over to your own programming.
Johnathan. Aviles the size of the neck basically states that he knows what he's talking about. 20 to 30 years ago, every American football player trained their neck until it was wide like Lou's. Nowadays, it seems that every week, some new football star has a concussion. Although concussions occur in the skull, some studies show that a stronger neck provides support for the rest of the skull. The neck connects the head to the rest of the body. The two most venerable points of the spine is the lower and the upper most ends, in other words, the neck and lower back. That's cause the neck and lower back has no other bones to help support, feel your body for yourself. The upper and mid back have support from the rib cage but the neck and lower back have support from the muscles, which are a lot weaker than bones. Louie said before he trains his back, abs, and neck very often because of the before mentioned reason, they support the weak points of the human body. So why would you not train these muscles if they safeguard the most weak points of the human body?
As a trainer, I've pointed people toward Louie's videos a number of times, and without fail they come back and tell me they couldn't even understand the points he was conveying. I just find it humorous...he does speak very technical stuff.
davidsirmons pointing them towards specific articles on the westside website would be way more understandable, plus his book of methods (which is more understandable if one has read a good amount of articles and has a basic idea of how the westside conjugate system works)
Wow, these interviewer guys need to get their act together. Stammering and "uhh.....mmh" is really telling of how ill-prepared the questions are, or worse, how ill-prepared the interviewers are for the technical answers given.
These guys interviewing Louie are NCAA strength and conditioning coaches, they're not television or radio professionals. Their questions were legit and they let Louie talk as much as he wanted. I'm sure you would've done a much better job, right? Because you "get" Louie? Because Louie is speaking Greek and these guys don't understand him, right?
@@omardiangeloarteaga4875 loui Simmons knows far more about weightlifting (a sport he doesn't even have interest in anymore) then you could ever dream of having. His methods might be a bit weird at times and the culture at his gym is not something I like to associate with, but you cannot deny he produces the best of the best athletes with his methods.
