Louie Simmons is a Powerlifter

Powerlifting

Powerlifting is a strength sport. It resembles the sport of Olympic weightlifting, as both disciplines involve lifting weights in three attempts. Powerlifting evolved from a sport known as 'odd lifts' which followed the same three attempt format but used a wide variety of events akin to Strongman...

, Writer,Inventor and a Pioneer in Strength and Speed development in order to better athletic performance.

Louie's current objective is to bring the highest standard of theoretical and practical training methodologies to the current strength and conditioning, coaching and personal training community. This is achieved by teaching the methods he has developed, which are based on years of theoretical research and practical application. From this Individuals will train their athletes optimally, which in turn insures a safe and long athletic career helping them fulfil their true sporting potential.

Powerlifting career

For the last 37 years Louie Simmons has totaled Elite in various power-lifting organizations. He is the only lifter over 50 years of age to squat 920 pounds, bench 600 pounds and dead lift 722 pounds which in total 2100 pounds and was ranked 4th nationally in 2000 in the open.
During his competitive career, Simmons has experienced a variety of injuries. He has broken his fifth vertebra twice, ruptured his left patella tendon

Tendon

A tendon is a tough band of fibrous connective tissue that usually connects muscle to bone and is capable of withstanding tension. Tendons are similar to ligaments and fasciae as they are all made of collagen except that ligaments join one bone to another bone, and fasciae connect muscles to other...

, and detached his right biceps

Biceps

Biceps may refer to:*Biceps brachii muscle, a muscle located on the inside of the upper arm*Biceps femoris muscle, one of the hamstring muscles of the back of each thigh*Biceps , a point in a metrical pattern...

from the bone.

Over the many years that Louie has been involved in power-lifting and special strength training, he has gained a vast amount of knowledge on how to produce strength. Through experience and constant research, his areas of expertise are vast and include but not limited to the list below;

• The Percent Training Method
• The Conjugate Training Method
• The Dynamic Training Method
• The Maximum Effort Method
• Lifting Technique
• Raising Work Capacity
• Rehabilitation And Restoration
• The Reactive And Contrast Methods

Westside Barbell

Louie’s training methodology is backed up by his athlete’s results. Currently he trains 33 men who have benched 700 pounds, 8 over 800, and 2 over 900 pounds. In addition Louie has 17 athletes who have squatted over 1000 pounds and 6 over 1100. He also has 18 athlete who deadlift over 800 pounds and has 13 athletes who have a total lifting record over 2500 pounds, 7 over 2600 pound total, and the only gym to have 2 over 2700 pound totals, plus 2 over 2800 pounds and 1 over 2900 pounds. All these athletes train within Louie's Famous Training Facility Westside Barbell. He is a strength consultant for the Cleveland Browns , Green Bay Packers, New England Patriots, Seattle Seahawks, and numerous college football teams. 2 Olympic gold medal sprinters and an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Heavy Weight World Champion have also trained under the watchful eye of Mr. Simmons. Top flight rugby teams have and still ask for his advice and Louie has had past dealings with the New Zealand All-Blacks to name but one of a long list.

Writing and Instructional Videos

Louie has published over a 100 training articles and published 3 books namely

1. The Westside Barbell Book Of Methods
2. Squat and Deadlift Manual
3. Bench Press Manual

He has also created 7 best selling training Dvds namely

1. Bench Press Workout
2. Squat Workout
3. Bench Press Secrets
4. Explosive Power Training
5. Reactive Method
6. Special Strengths
7. Westside Barbell Special Strengths Certificate Dvd Symposium

Equipment Patents and Trademarks

Trademark Names

• Louie Simmons
• Westside Barbell
• Often Imitated Always Irriated
• Westside 4 Athletes
• Reverse Hyper

Patent list

• 5356539-Reverse Hyper
• 649160762-Reverse Hyper
• 7435207-Reverse Hyper
• 23290.170 patent pending-Reverse Hyper
• 8007414- Hamstring And Hip Quad Developers
• 7238148- PlyoSwing