Westside Barbell Floor Press

The major barbell exercises that we perform are as follows.

Westside barbell floor press.

At one time lifters attacked the lift with gusto putting up some impressive numbers including george hackenschmidt s 361 pound strict floor press back in 1899. A quick review of their gym stats will tell you all you need to know. These men and women have the art of strength down to a science and are quite simply the best at what they do. The floor press is performed by using a barbell kettlebell dumbbell or a trap bar.

Lower the bar until the triceps are completely on the floor and relaxed before pressing the bar up. Westside barbell is the strongest. Floor press training at westside barbell. Louis simmons born 12 october 1947 is a former american powerlifter and current strength coach.

A users guide what is westside barbell. Westside barbell in columbus ohio is the only gym in the world to have two powerlifters with over 2700 pound totals five over 2800 pounds and one who has the biggest total of all time at 3005 lbs. After doing an exercise with weights over 90 for 3 4 weeks your strength will regress. Westside barbell is the strongest gym in the world.

Jay fry fred boldt joe jester dave hoff. The floor press is the original horizontal barbell press even predating the bench press. Westside barbell is the strongest gym in the world. Having been fortunate enough to train with and become certified under louie i ve experienced westside s system first hand and truly want to provide.

Only one grip is used per workout. Westside barbell is a private invitation only elite training facility in columbus ohio that was created by. Here are three variations to consider. These are mostly done with just bar weight.

He is noted for developing the westside conjugate method of training and applying it to powerlifting and other sports as well as inventing several pieces of strength training equipment. It s difficult for me to express the significance of this in one line so allow me to reiterate while using italics because you and i both know italics makes me even more serious. Dave tate continues to be westside s most well known and outspoken disciple although he now operates his own training facility. We train at 100 all year long by changing a barbell exercise every 1 or 2 weeks.

Other testers that he will use are 2 of 3 board presses with either a wide or close grip.