The podcast, hosted by Tom Barry, delves into strength and conditioning training, focusing on the Conjugate Method. Tom Barry, who was mentored and chosen by Louie Simmons to lead Westside Barbell after his passing, brings unparalleled expertise and experience to each episode. The podcast will feature guests who are coaches, athletes, and specialists sharing their stories and insights on helping athletes increase strength and performance.
Episodes
Friday Jul 22, 2022
Friday Jul 22, 2022
This is special episode of the podcast as it's the first podcast recorded inside the gym of Westside Barbell. The guests for today's podcast couldn't be more appropriate for this occasion:
Chuck Vogelpohl: Other than Louie himself, Chuck V is probably the most associated name with Westside Barbell. A living legend of Westside history, as well as setting world records, Chuck is the embodiment of both the Westside mentality and the achievements of the club.
Marcus Marinelli: Founder of Strong Style MMA in Cleveland. Marcus based his gym after the time he spent training with Louie and the crew at Westside. Strong Style is home to many great martial artists including former UFC Heavyweight Champion Stipe Miocic.
Dominic Rotolo and Tom Waddle are integral members of Westside History, part of the morning crew with Chuck and Marcus, they both have contributed to the Westside Legacy.
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00:00:00 Intro
00:00:25 Marcus starting at Westside, meeting Dom, meeting Chuck
00:07:24 Chuck's Start
00:09:30 Dom's Start, being around Louie
00:18:06 Tom Waddle's Start, Louie the Chameleon
00:23:55 A Strong Mind
00:27:00 Chuck's Neck
00:28:56 The impact of Westside's culture, Matt Dimmel
00:36:27 Characters at Westside
00:40:00 Comp Behavior, The Pecking Order
00:41:30 Briggs Rd, Matt working the front
00:43:40 Competing as a team, going out as a team, comradery
01:00:00 Learning from Louie
01:03:45 Louie Simmons, Nitro
01:12:11 Training Stories
01:14:15 a UPS delivery
01:17:15 Woo!
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Friday Jul 08, 2022
Friday Jul 08, 2022
In this episode of the podcast, Tom and Loper go over your questions submitted from Instagram
Some of the topics covered include:
- Westside and The Future
- Training and Programming
- Louie and Westside
00:00 Intro
01:30 Warm Ups
03:35 Speed Bench without bands or chains
06:55 Programming Jumps
10:05 Who's in Charge?
11:28 Louie's way of teaching
17:21 Originally, where was Westside Barbell?
23:22 If you fail to plan, you plan to fail
24:29 What wearing a Westside t-shirt mean to Louie
25:59 Louie and the Podcast, his own universe and his fame
30:09 Train Twice a Day?
32:21 Beginners and building Strength
34:29 Wheelbarrows
35:37 Parting thoughts/outro
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Friday Jun 24, 2022
Friday Jun 24, 2022
Bob Coe and Jeff "Gritter" Adams ran the Night Crew at Westside for many years. Coe initially came to Westside in 1979, alongside Matt Dimmel while Gritter started in 1994. after being invited to train there by Louie. Their development of Night Crew and the resulting achievements became an integral part to the legacy of Westside Barbell and Louie's training methodologies.
Topics Covered include:
- The history and culture of the Night Crew
- Training Dave Hoff
- Chuck's brief stint in the Night Crew
00:00 intro
00:35 Coe & Gritters beginnings at Westside
07:30 Louie & The First Arnold, Coe's Olympia Stories
10:00 Westside Competing at the Arnold's, Anthony Clarke
11:27 The Night Crew
16:28 Eskill and The Night Crew
19:46 What stood out with the Night Crew
22:00 Achievements of the Night Crew
27:11 Coe, a benchshirt, and a 100 scratches
31:20 Feats of Strength in the Gym, injury rates, training with bands for the first time
34:54 Louie's training experiments,
39:30 Why People Stayed, bar fights, meeting Matt Dimmel, early Westside days
42:16 Ohio Strong, Black's Strength World
44:48 Matt Dimmel
48:30 Louie's Gyms, The Board
54:00 Coe as a Handler, hand outs, Training with Dave off
1:00:00 Never Dump The Bar
1:03:00 Hoff - 3005
1:04:00 Chuck
1:09:20 The Westside Method
1:13:00 The Newark Crew
1:17:55 Louie and The Crew, The Hoffs
1:21:30 Jerry O, Tony Ramos, back to Hoff
1:26:00 Parting Thoughts on Louie
1:29:23 Outro
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Friday Jun 10, 2022
Friday Jun 10, 2022
Jim Seitzer has an elite total of 1824.3 and is a former Mr. USA. Jim was a founding member of Westside Barbell, training under Louie back in the Basement Days through various inceptions of Westside. He is also the Founder of Bandbell (https://www.bandbell.com/), a company that specializes in O.K.E. training equipment such as the Earthquake and Rhinoflex series of bars
Topics covered include:
- Meeting Louie Simmons
- The Original Crew and training in the 70's
- Jim's bodybuilding career and the importance power-building played
00:10 - Intro
00:30 - Starting as gymnast/Discovering weight training
04:40 - Meeting Louie Simmons/The Original Crew
11:15 - Louie's Early training and developing his system
17:40 - Developing the Reverse Hyper
23:45 - When Louie broke his back
25:40 - The Board/Louie's Coaching/Crew Mentality
32:00 - Generations of Westside/Louie at Westside
39:57 - Louie's Favorite Hobby/Training with Louie
46:00 - Ohio Strong
49:00 - Jim's Bodybuilding Career/Powerlifting Career
58:00 - Louie Stories
01:08:00 - Jim on Louie
01:10:30 - Outro
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Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
Louie and Tom answer your questions on the deadlift in this episode. Regarded as the king of all lifts, the deadlift is an essential exercise. Topics Covered include:
-Speed Work
-Essential Muscle Groups
-Common Weaknesses Deadlifting
00:00 Intro
00:09 LOUIE WANTS YOU
01:10 Podcast Start
01:22 The Importance of developing the back, glutes and hamstrings
04:50 What Louie Learned about the Deadlift at Westside
06:45 The Importance of the Stomach
07:23 Most Common Weakness in the Deadlift
08:50 How Louie rates the Deadlift
09:20 Incorporating Speed Work
11:25 The Effect of Speed Work
16:18 The Good Morning
20:35 Andy Bolton, Yuri Belken
22:36 Chair Deadlift
24:03 When should you switch Exercise
27:05 Adding Bands
29:16 Deficit Deadlifts
32:19 Louie's Coaching Blueprint
34:50 Deadlift Grip
36:30 Barbell Rows
38:20 Snatch Grip Deadlift
39:02 Strongman Implements
41:54 Louie's Concluding Comments on the Deadlift
50:16 You Gotta Learn
56:08 Outro
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Louie Simmons is widely regarded as the 'Strength Coaches, Strength Coach' and is the founder of the world-renowned gym called Westside Barbell in Columbus, Ohio.
Westside Barbell is an invitation-only training laboratory where only the strongest of mind and body survive. Our goal is simple: “To become the best and push every boundary known to man in doing so.”
This gym has produced more world records in powerlifting than any other in the World, and Louie has been regarded as one of the main reasons that the conjugate style of training has been popularized in today's training methods.
Outside of powerlifting, Louie is a strength consultant for many NFL, NBA, MBA teams, along with having trained gold medal sprinters, pro boxers, UFC fighters, and many more athletes out of his gym via the conjugate method of strength training.
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Thursday Feb 03, 2022
Thursday Feb 03, 2022
Jud Logan (July 19, 1959 – January 3, 2022) was a hammer thrower, highly decorated athlete and a 4 time Olympian. He competed in the 1984, 1988, 1992 and the 2000 Olympic Games. In 1987 he won gold in the Pan American Games. In the 1980's, as his strength began to stagnate, his East German friends advised him to push his box jumps. As his improved his box jumps, his throws began increasing. Box jumps are still a staple in Westside training to this day. Louie and Tom discuss Jud's time at Westside, the effectiveness of box jumps, the importance of explosive power and more in todays episode.
TIMESTAMPS - 00:00 - Intro 00:10 - Who is Jud Logan? 02:00 - Implementing Box Jumps 02:25 - What difference did box jumping make? 04:28 - How important is speed work in relation to max effort? 06:27 - Sled Pulls 09:37 - As true today as it was back then - Soviet Training Books, Science and practice of strength training 11:02 - Make the Athlete better than You 11:50 - Louie's Coaching Technique 16:25 - The Importance of GPP 18:12 - Box Jump's Carryover 19:27 - Sport Specific Training 21:20 - Athlete Overtraining 23:36 - Conjugate is Everything 25:42 - The Gym is the Answer 31:26 - Louie on Jud 32:53 - Louie's Goal
Wednesday Nov 24, 2021
Wednesday Nov 24, 2021
Louie and Tom discuss the USA weightlifting team's performance at the 2020 Olympics. Louie outlines the challenges facing American weightlifting and what needs to change in regards to the training and development of athletes in order to overcome these obstacles.
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Future of USA Weightlifting
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What makes China so strong?
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Powerlifting for Weightlifting
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Weightlifting for Powerlifting
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And more!
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:12 Start
00:24 Future of USA Weightlifting
03:55 What makes China so strong?
07:00 Louie's experience with Olympic Weightlifting
08:10 Best Olympic Lifter
09:00 What role does maximum strength have in weightlifting?
12:18 Max effort strength and other forms of strength in weightlifting
13:50 Absolute strength and technical improvements
17:35 Powerlifting for weightlifters, weightlifting for powerlifters
20:03 Crossfit and Football's influence on Weightlifting
20:45 Olympic weightlifters and Westside Barbell
25:40 Olympic coaches, come to Westside Barbell
Monday Oct 18, 2021
Monday Oct 18, 2021
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Culver City Westside Barbell members
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Louie's competitive days
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Why did Louie open a gym?
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The Westside Barbell logo, Nitro
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And more!
Saturday Oct 24, 2020
Friday Jul 24, 2020
Friday Jul 24, 2020
In today's podcast, Louie Simmons is joined by Coach Josh Bush who is the base Lead Strength and Conditioning Coach at Fort Knox for Reef Systems.
This is a phone in question and answers based podcast, so advanced apologies for any patches of inconsistent volume.
Stay Strong!
Westside Barbell