[quote]jbpick86 wrote:
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Executing form exactly how the lifters do in multi-ply gear when you are a raw lifter
I?ve been to Westside and had Louie yell at me for over tucking my elbows. He?s actually said that I needed to stop tucking so much and start flaring my elbows since I was raw. He?s also told me that I need more pec and lat work since these will contribute more as a wide raw lifter. I bet that wasn?t what you were expecting, huh? At Westside, I was told to start benching with no arch and with my feet up (like a bodybuilder) so that I could build upper body strength. This all happened last November, and at that time my bench was 90 percent leg drive and 10 percent upper body.
However, by March?after about four months of following Louie?s instructions, my bench was up 20 pounds. For the record, I compete at 105 pounds. So a 20-pound increase for a small female on the bench is huge. On the other hand, let?s compare that to when I followed what I thought was the concurrent system (without actually realizing I was so far away from what it really was): my bench stayed the same for two years. So yeah?it was not that the program didn?t work, it was that I didn?t know how to apply it.
Then there?s the squat?Everyone says that Louie wants people to squat ultra wide, but once again, these people haven?t talked to Louie. I was at the Women?s Pro Am this year, and I watched Louie pull aside my old training partner and tell her that, as a raw lifter, she was squatting too wide. Shocked? I?m not. Lou knows lifting, and he knows that squatting too wide with no gear and with weak abductors won?t work out for a big raw squat. He knows that quads play a huge role for raw lifters, and he will tell you that you have to have strong quads if raw is the path you choose to follow. Anyways, back to the story?She listened to him, pulled her stance in, and went from almost getting crushed on a second attempt to smoking a third.[/quote]
This is an excerpt from this article articles.elitefts.com/training-articles/in-defense-of-westside-for-raw-lifters/ by Jennifer Petrosino.
I think a lot of people attribute a lot of things to Westside that they heard about Westside from someone who had no idea what they were talking about, but Louis gets the credit for that some fools idiocy.[/quote]
I feel like spamming this post over and over again so it sinks into people’s heads.
ESPECIALLY this last bit here:
[quote]I think a lot of people attribute a lot of things to Westside that they heard about Westside from someone who had no idea what they were talking about
I think a lot of people attribute a lot of things to Westside that they heard about Westside from someone who had no idea what they were talking about
I think a lot of people attribute a lot of things to Westside that they heard about Westside from someone who had no idea what they were talking about
I think a lot of people attribute a lot of things to Westside that they heard about Westside from someone who had no idea what they were talking about[/quote]