Westside Barbell Podcast #45 - Louie Simmons and John Quint - NFL Injuries

In this podcast, John Quint joins Louie Simmons and Tom Barry to discuss the injury rate in the NFL. Within the first week of 2019, the NFL lost about half a billion dollars for starters not playing.
00:00:00 - 00:01:14 - Intro
00:01:15 - 00:13:31 - Addressing the problem
00:13:32 - 00:19:18 - Why training needs to be adaptable
00:19:19 - 00:33:41 - The absence of a system leads to injuries
00:33:42 - 00:39:06 - Strength and Conditioning should be independent
00:39:07 - 00:47:07 - The hardest part of being a human is to change
00:47:08 - 00:53:30 - Don't be afraid to be stupid
00:53:31 - 01:12:16 - Closing words
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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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[@stevendunk5985]

Very good interview. Thank you for putting this out. Westside is the best for strength for sure.

[@WestsideBarbellOfficial]

Your welcome

[@FoxFamily0825]

Tom, is there any way to get Chuck on the podcast? Bribe him please we beg of you.

[@jamessydnor7591]

R.I.P. Big Lou Much respect guys love these conversations

[@bobstrauss9413]

Louie is definately right ! His methodology can be applied to most any sport. Most think his ideas only apply to geared powerlifting but can be used for any sport.

[@WestsideBarbellOfficial]

👊

[@big.B.408]

Wow 20 minutes in and I'm amazed!!! This is a great episode really. I will be listening to this many times over!

[@WestsideBarbellOfficial]

Appreciate the feedback!

[@noahkatz304]

This is absolutely sensational. Nowhere else online, or even in a huge percentage of textbooks for that matter, do you get this level of information in such a small amount of time. Keep up the great work guys.

[@WestsideBarbellOfficial]

Appreciate the comment!

[@josephh5085]

Here are my takeaways: Follow the system and strengthen your weaknesses, educate the lifter, and GO BROWNS!

[@donutfitness6324]

There is my buddy JQ! Great segment and info.

[@masonmennell8514]

Excellent information here thank you

[@stevemass8523]

Jeez Louie is unstopable ! Love the content huge like

[@WestsideBarbellOfficial]

Appreciate the comment Steve!

[@sikspak7777]

Thanks for another great video! Keep em coming please...

[@WestsideBarbellOfficial]

👊

[@borasta9888]

Agreed a teams strength and conditioning should be in-house not a part of the coaching staff.

[@Jamesy-kp4tu]

How’s Louies health holding up? He looks a bit fatigued. Appreciate the upload boys 👍

[@ddw-ge1ss]

That’s what I thought as well

[@stevemass8523]

I mean i dont want to look bad But he almost died multiple times in his life time .... Louie is a true samurai

[@hushai5154]

He's got to be pushing 80. No beating time.

[@ScipioAmericanus__]

As a former strength coach myself at an SEC school for football, I can speak with some accuracy on the state of big time college football in the weight room. Essentially what you have is a, “coach,” that is a baby sitter first, a recruiter second, a janitor third, and a cheerleader fourth in what the football coach expects of them. The state of college strength coaches is so bad , all I hear from good SEC Head S&C coaches is to get out of the game and run a garage gym and make money in some other fashion, because any fairytale idea that you’re going to go into that multi-billion dollar cash cow and change it to make your athletes better than when they came to you as freshman, is a failed ideology. You will watch them to make sure they don’t kill themselves in the gym, be a cheerleader on game days and practices, clean up the gym and after your athletes, and put on a cool face for recruits. The first thing they told me in my grad program for S&C was if you’re white and male don’t even think about securing a job, unless you really know somebody, because, for recruiting purposes, they want black coaches or female coaches…. White and male is unwanted despite your strength coaching abilities. If you’re a S&C initiate I would advise getting a degree in engineering and coach on the side, like what Louie did. The world does want what you have to offer, but the Globo Homo big sports certainly don’t. They want recruits to play for 2-4 years then find a replacement for them, never mind their backs, knees, and brains literally fucked from all the brutal workouts and practices. Then I’m the NFL strength coaches only go their to get the Union guaranteed pensions/salaries after their tenure is done, that’s the only reason they go. To call them applicable parts of the team is a joke, these athletes pay personal trainers to train them in the off season. That’s why after being with this big team for 2 years I left and never thought about going back. It rewards the dumbest of the bunch because it’s the dumbest that work the most insane hours for ZERO pay that get picked up , all the while the smart coaches with any sense see the system for what it is and become insurance salesmen or find a completely different job. It’s crazy

[@vitti3300]

Hi guys, do you know if Louie and the guys ever talked about training for volleyball girls? I know that most principle can be applied to most sports but I was just wandering if they ever talked specifically about volleyball. Thanks!

[@noahkatz304]

Im real late on this and hope it’s okay. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a seminar he’s done online (and trust me I’ve seen A LOT) where he’s talked specifically about it. But i can say that in the special strengths for sports book he gives soooo much solid info about how to apply the training system to various sports. So while no I can’t say that I’ve ever heard him speak of it directly, his books do make it infinitely easier to apply the system to any sport. Hope this helps!

[@vitti3300]

@@noahkatz304 Thanks man, I bought his books a couple weeks ago I already read two of them, the one you suggested will be next 👍

[@lifebyathread8844]

This guy loved kung fu wrestling and fighting. An unsung hero . Unknown by most and those that do know of him sure do Sink deep in their jealousy . This guy should have been the face of weightlifting . Instead they showed us arnold who had nothingto teach us.

[@Plame69]

for bilatteral deficit you go ultra wide stance, is there a similar simple path to walk with similar issues for upper body?

[@WestsideBarbellOfficial]

It does depend on what you're lacking. Doing illegal wide benched might not be your best choice if you notice a significant difference in your triceps.

[@Plame69]

@@WestsideBarbellOfficial thanks for the reply!

[@josephh5085]

59:38 - Maurice Clarett?

[@rb6120]

Yessir!!

[@turtlespurples]

YES FINALLY MY SPORT THANK YOU FUCK THIS MY SIENOR YEAR AND MY SEASON STARTS IN JAN 14 CAUSE CORONA AND A KID NAMED DANNY I SHOWED HIM THE CONJUGATE SYSTEM AND TOLD HIM ABOUT THE SOVIETS AND BULGARIANS AND CURRENT CHINESE AND MY TOTAL IN 4 MONTHS HAS GONE UP 130LBS AND IM NATURAL AND DANNY WENT UP NATURALLY 140! doing my coaches shit I was stuck for 10 months. And I keep telling them what they do doesnt work and they should do this this this etc and that say shut up alex you still in highschool.

[@WestsideBarbellOfficial]

Glad to hear you were able to make that much progress. Keep it up 👊

[@5inchborespaceing]

2 different coaches. Strength coach and speed coach.

[@anorzagaray21]

Who’s snoring? 😂😂🤣🤣

[@pryme2013]

Joe "sleepy" Biden was there.

[@masonmennell8514]

@@pryme2013 joe would never go near westside, he's a pencil neck

[@anorzagaray21]

If it weren’t for steroids Joe Biden would have been in the MLB according to him

[@masonmennell8514]

@@anorzagaray21 🤣

[@pryme2013]

@@masonmennell8514 true, Louie would never allow him in the door....hopefully.

[@TheTkrum]

Platform and springboard divers take bigger and more daily hits than any football player, college or NFL... you just don’t hear about us divers complaining about it 😉

[@Improveathletics]

Interesting take. Never dived but I have been absolutely obliterated going across the middle by division 1 safeties and linebackers.

[@TheTkrum]

Hitting the water at close to 40mph is almost like concrete. Even when it goes right, it’s powerful and taxing. When it goes bad, it gets ugly real quick. Makes a man out of you because missing dives is part of the growth of the sport. Divers take an absolute beating to get to the elite level. From concussions to internal bleeding, the impacts from diving are some of the hardest hits in all of sports.

[@robertsaladino]

Lifting weights for numbers is different from lifting weights for sports performance adding getting tackled and running full speed. 1 is full contact the other is not. More injuries in the NFL do to it's nature not training in the gym.

[@noahkatz304]

I do agree with this to a point but listen again to 9:00-9:25 about training to mitigate these problems from occurring. Not to mention how many of the injuries are weight room and training related, not strictly from being hit. This system of training does that weak point training better than any other I’ve studied.

[@noahkatz304]

So imagine this. Think a defensive end that tore an ACL whilst doing something along the lines of a 4 cone drill (just for example’s sake). Now the strength coach for that team hasn’t been using a training system that offers feedback on heavier movements like a squat. Instead they have been doing various band drill for shoulder mobility because they’re afraid of going heavy on a lower body compound exercise because it’s something they deemed as “dangerous”. Had the implemented a system, not unlike conjugate, where the feedback would’ve been seen that an ACL tear could be imminent and then STRENGTHENED and acquired OPTIMAL WORKING RANGES those tissues. This injury could be fully avoided. This scenario, though hypothetical, is something happening season after season in the NFL because of a lack of a training system offering necessary feedback.

[@noahkatz304]

Of course there will always be concussions and broken bones because the violent nature of the game. But it’s these training/practice/overuse injuries that are being discussed in this video.

[@xbenxwilsonxhighlights7879]

Listen to the podcast again bro.