[quote]elliotnewman1 wrote:
zephead4747 wrote:
I’m curious what their best deadlifts are. Louie brags about big squats and benches in his articles a lot. But never deadlifts. Now I’m not smarter then louie by any means, but they don’t seem to there deadlift in their training often either. Which just got me kind of thinking.
I can not help but feel you have not done your homework on Westside when starting this thread. Until you have read every article on the Westside site and then some, you probably do not have a grasp of how the system works. Hell, I’ve been using the system for a year and I learn something new about it every time I re read an article or when a new one is written by Louie Simmons or any of the guys who train there.
The whole point of the conjugate method is that it is highly flexible. Somebody else on this thread already listed some monster Deadlifts from the guys at Westside, so I will not repeat that.
What I will do is describe how I have and currently do use the Westside system to better my own, currently modest, yet constantly improving Deadlift. 13 months ago I had not Deadlifted for about 3 years. I started Dl and used the Westside principles almost exclusively for the past year and a bit. (Whenever I tried something new, my DL stalled. Back to Westside and it went up).
I competed in my first single lift meet on May 24th 2008:
Here’s how it went:
bw category 82.5kg (I weighed in at 81kg in trainers, so a bit light)
Deadlift 210kg (2.6 times bw)
Class JNR
To put that into perspective its a raw lift in the BDFPA. The British record in my class is 240kg.
Here’s my training 4 weeks before the meet (and its pretty much what Louie Simmons advocates in his articles):
All weight is plus one set of chain (adding 16kg at lockout)
Wk 1
After Speed Box squats
8 singles at 50% 105kg
Wk 2
After Speed Box squats
4 singles and 55% 115kg
3 heavier singles, 130kg, 150kg, 175kg
Wk 3
After Speed Box squats
10 singles at 60% 125kg
Wk 4 ( the week of the meet and no chain)
3 singles at 60% 125 kg
Pulled 210kg (462lbs) at the meet. The %ages seem to work perfectly for me. Notice I never pulled more than 1 rep per set and did not do any Max effort deadlifting within a month of the meet.
I have tried multiple set DL’s and very heavy partials (for me), but I personally find the Westside system works very well for me. Guys who are naturally suited to the Sq and Bp may need more volume, but I can not comment on that,only my personal experience.
All I know is their system seems to work for anyone and they do have some badass DL’s! I think people need to remember that 900lbs plus deads are very rare and anything over 700 is serious depending on weight category
Im out…
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I do read the articles, and I do know how the system works, however You’ll hear quite a bit about squats and benches, but rarely big pulls. Which is why I started this thread, to hear about said big pulls.