Banded Cleans w/ Louie Simmons of Westside Barbell

[@CTPCAM]

Louie was one of a kind, and I enjoyed being able to capture that when I could. Thanks for the laughs, the knowledge, and the Bob Evan’s breakfasts! Rest in power! 🙏

[@TrueRahf]

I picture Lou's brain is constantly, and randomly, choosing between different modes of talking. It happens without any internal rhythm, and any choice can be sprung at any time. - Anecdote about one of his athletes. - Quote from an athlete, or coach, or book, or random drunk he met. - Reprimanding and teasing with a wry smile, while coaching. - One sentence of stellar direction and coaching, followed by a minute of filler talk (The episodic structure of anime was inspired by this). - Filling the space with nonsense until the brain picks another option. Every once in a while a golden nugget that explains the nature of strength sports gets added to one of the aforementioned choices. But it's almost always surrounded by white noise. Love this video. It shows Lou's coaching style, and should inform everybody watching if they'd like it or not.

[@nathanielsoh7783]

holy shit hahaha

[@gzeuskraiste]

I see you are fluent in Louienese 😂

[@alexmaclin1194]

YES BANDS WORK! Still my favorite line of this video. RIP Louie Simmons the best to ever do it.

[@johndonovan5521]

God I miss this man's vids. Watching him get excited about these guy's breaking OR's is great.

[@JustinKhoe]

Haha, "Just remember it's not a beauty contest."

[@paulgurnig3778]

This is a great episode. What made it for me was seeing Chris' quote at the end. That was the best...

[@jreed22222]

that dude is nuts. i like him

[@stephencaserta2969]

super cool seeing chris in there at the end

[@keithqueen]

Never heard Louie coach - this was so cool to see in action

[@Vanguard_Fitness]

This got me fired up. Love the quotation from Chris at the end.

[@jacobmartinezsilva4222]

RIP Louie

[@Mijae]

seeing Chris' quote at thé end gave me shivers. thanks ctp.

[@blueweld75]

I dig the music and how it was shot. So rad!

[@blueweld75]

IAM SO PUMPED FOR THIS!!!! I knew you guys had more stuff from westside!!!!!

[@CedricZirtacic]

Great video! And I love Chris Moore's quote at the end.

[@mikimiyazaki]

i like Louie's enthusiasm

[@pratikmanandhar5173]

This episode kicked ass

[@lancerWells]

I would love to train with these guys. hell I would love to have a gym like this to train in.

[@fkubiggness]

excellent video. motivation and education in one video.

[@Dnbusk]

Chris Moore

[@forgemindbodysoul]

Kurt's clean technique is.....pretty damn clean lol.

[@obitonye]

Thank you CTP

[@Mike-cp1tj]

SICK editing CTP

[@janus7158]

Barbell Buddha. Great video CTP.

[@shaundonovan2193]

Nice cleans! Fun to watch

[@DARK24-7]

preach em louie-miss training sooooo bad...i wish i coulda stopped time and stayed strong(sob)

[@Raptor44256]

I've seen so much hate from the weightlifting community after this and his books applying his methods to weightlifting. Good to see this footage.

[@nobodymr2146]

listen to the podcast of Louie and Travish Mash talking.....its TOO good and they go over that topic multiple times.

[@Raptor44256]

Just from reading the oly communities reactions to his book on weightlifting was enough to make me dislike a lot of the coaches.

[@nobodymr2146]

Yep 100%, people posted it when it first came out and were bashing hard. It's mainly those who have been STUCK in the same sport and ONLY know the same port. They don't want to grow, just evolve and do the same shit lol......it just seems crazy at times, especially with Louie's list of accomplishments

[@Raptor44256]

The main criticism is not knowing what he's talking about, but hey it's not like he hasn't coached a ton of world ranked athletes or anything.

[@qtpie2630]

Where are his olympic champions? World champions? Hell even national champions where are they?

[@gokuryu]

man he killed that 15+ lb p.r. he had more in the tank. a month with Louis he would add 40 pounds. a year he be close to 400 total.

[@izzate7]

Impressive results!

[@jeffcarver7202]

great video.

[@keithlittle293]

Very knowledgeable guy

[@Jasonsprague1981]

I miss Chris Moore. Just saying!

[@JW_Haze]

BBS is finally back on track

[@bmares1986]

Anyone caught who he was talking about at 3:45 : " ... had a 100 workouts, how many you guys do?". Who is it that he is referring to? Thanks!

[@bmares1986]

Right, but he is referring to a '" Dr. Methodes"? I can't make out what he is saying...:)))

[@bmares1986]

Merci!!!!

[@nikboa]

@@bmares1986 Alexi Medvedev soviet Olympic weightlifting scientist

[@jackschlunke4439]

This is the best video on KZbin! Louie Simmons the Jesus of powerlifting

[@turtlespurples]

Show us the assistance work footage. Its been 4 years

[@christopherspags]

Amazing

[@Coleman_et_al]

Where is the assistance work?

[@SpitFirstTv]

the belt squat and reverse hyper as louie mentioned would be two of the main accessory lifts and maybe the inverse curl

[@themarkmethod4845]

LOVE THIS!

[@delanuez]

MORE LOUIE!

[@Gallagher.661]

Still waiting on that assistance video

[@cjmack23ok]

any chance you could upload the assistance work stuff!!!

[@BretticusD]

So badass

[@gordo608]

sweet Pat Cummins shirt Mike

[@tobiasamsler2100]

where is part 2?

[@relphsta]

Where's part 2?

[@josearamirez4494]

Im a get that weightlifting new book hes got!! Tried westside once and though shrugs aint a competitive lift it went from 150 for 5 reps to a 495 for 2 reps, 5'3" at 160 lbs bodyweight with a combination of banded shrugs and chain shrugs!!

[@langan14]

Genius, CTP

[@jwdshihan]

All Hail King Louie.

[@matthewfrancis9237]

what band is needed if setting up a station for this?

[@keanstraube8282]

the red bands

[@Vincentvanh1]

Iron Butterfly

[@brittanyorr5653]

Chris!!! 🙏☄☁

[@a_badali]

Very artsy

[@00Weightlifting]

Why not just snatch and clean/jerk to get better at the snatch and clean/jerk?

[@iairon7609]

that's what the bulgarians did and now they always lose to Russians and Chinese

[@jeffsmith9860]

-Jon-a-gayYou're a dipshit if you think bands have no benefit at all. Weak little wuss.

[@muscleandmath2910]

Riley Wilson lol we have a minimalist.

[@thebuddhaofknowledgemichae2486]

Coach Simmons

[@blaktrumpet]

Guess I need to buy some bands now lol

[@jrs1boom920]

Goddamn I love Louie Simmons. I'd pay a nice chunk of cash just to hang out at Westside for a day.

[@Michael.S.Ryan.]

15:35

[@mush8251]

Who's the girl

[@kavinmendez7589]

Heaven definitely got a good one! #BarbellBuddha

[@Jmack7861]

I hate trying to understand what Louie is talking about, it's like Cajun mixed with a northern accent and being raised in the Virginia footheels

[@tjcogger1974]

How about cleans with chains? 😂

[@lifebyathread8844]

Louie trained people for free and made them who they are today. And those people wont ever be anything like louie . The samrtest things they say are louies qoutes.but they sure love to say ,"fuck louie simmons". This guy worked a crane all day and lifted weights all night. Lifting heavy shit was his life.

[@mvagusta03]

Also I'm not gonna say it's not true or he is wrong, but I had the same theory about adding to my pull and squat. I added a bunch to my deadlift and squat and my snatch didn't go up any. It's such a dynamic movement, and the deadlift and squat are so almost "static" that it doesn't transfer that well. Again, I'm not saying anything, these are just my findings, who knows maybe I was doing it all wrong....

[@irabaanmajumdar885]

You can increase your overall/relevant strength and still not be able to use 100% of that increase in strength due to a technical issue in your lift. Could be a limiting factor.

[@mvagusta03]

Irabaan Majumdar What I should be doing instead of deadlifts, is an explosive speed deadlift with a shrug at the top of the pull, that will transfer better than just a slow heavy deadlift.

[@irabaanmajumdar885]

Mr. I don't disagree. There comes a point with Louie's methods and conjugate in general where you just aren't achieving enough specificity, you would most likely be better off doing exactly what you said - just being overall more specific in regards to your programming. Just throwing it out there that it could be a technical issue that is the limiting factor in the scenario you mentioned.

[@EliasSmeeus]

The conjugate system is both Max Effort and Dynamic Effort days. There's a time for strength work and technique work. Deadlifts will help your clean more than your snatch. California Strength is a good example of using a style of conjugate training. They'll do heavy days of block pulls, OHP, deficits, then they'll do high volume days(speed work) of the same movements. These are all variants to get stronger at your weakest points.

[@mvagusta03]

Elias Armendariz I follow barbell WOD for my training, designed by Cal Strength :) I do all the same movements, just not nearly as good as some of those boys. So many talented lifters have walked through the doors of cal strength.

[@wesrichardson1760]

says weightlifters don't train max effort...immediately describes a weightlifter training max effort

[@jeffsmith9860]

-Wes RichardsonYou weren't paying attention to Louie, stupid. Louie said weightlifters do "heavy efforts" at about 70 to 80% of what a particular person is capable of for a single rep. A "max effort" is going 90% or higher.Dipshit

[@urinater]

Max Intensity vs Max Effort - D’UH!

[@thispersonsdad7247]

Max effort =/= maximal loading. Oly lifts are submaximal lifts.

[@BigBurns60]

He was speaking directly about USA weightlifting specifically.

[@Ciocebaseball]

Louie Simmons when you talk weightlifting numbers and explosive speed, I wish you could train my son who does boxing. You can make him faster with punching power. I know you can do that, I watch all your videos. We live in Poughkeepsie, New York. My son weight for boxing between 123-126.

[@TheUnholyPosole]

Louie (I'll get you stronger than you thought possible, but you'll probably hurt yourself) Simmons.