Your athletes are not powerlifters. Programming them as if they are will not lead to stronger, faster competitive performance.

A lot of people disagree about how often you should deadlift in the gym, if at all. For 13 years of competing, this is how I trained my deadlift.

For us, lifting was a priority. Louie and Westside gave us the edge to move our lifters on up in the competitive world. More than a place to train, lifting was our lifestyle.

As he aims to take his 540-pound bench up to 600, Casey is employing the help of these veteran coaches. Watch as he learns the adjustments needed to keep pushing forward.

Out of 16 years at Westside, this is the program I used for my PR 1160 squat and 2673 total.

Are you still searching for the holy grail of programs? Here it is, in all its perfection.

Injuries suck, but we all get them. It’s part of the game. But there’s one injury that kept me out of the gym for months at a time. The doctor told me I’d never bench over 400 pounds again. He was wrong.

You’ve followed the 9-12×3, but is it making you better? Do you know why?

Be open to different fitness methods, learn what is useful, discard what is not.

Darden replies to a reader's commentary.

How we used to overhead press at Westside back in the 90’s.

With a complex organism such as the human body, answers to questions must contain a broad analysis covering various components.

Think you’re getting the most out of your bands?

If you joined Crossfit to look like Rich Froning, you may need to broaden your approach. This is how I transitioned to powerlifting.

You all have heard a lot of stories, now let me cut through Dave's Westside bullshit.

Athletic guidance from the man who has been there.

To achieve success, you must first place yourself among success.

When designing programs, don’t follow any blind allegiance to a certain template.

Matt explains how he controls volume and builds lifts while also keeping himself in check for workouts ahead.

Love the sport of powerlifting.

He is back with more advice on getting jacked and pocketing that per diem cash!

It is not the percentages in 5/3/1, or the use of bands in Westside training that make these programs special.

Bob Youngs is back.

Back when I started my journey into the iron game, even before I started coaching, there was not much to choose from.

How do you let people know that you are good at what you do and get them to believe in you?

Is your training program working?

It’s not about whether it’s right or wrong…it’s about if you’re doing it right!

Here’s to the Conjugate Method!

This cycle is the most important training I have ever written for someone.

Jennifer Petrosino weighs in on strapping on a belt to press.

Bob Youngs describes his first training program while at Westside.

Having a problem with your programming? Jennifer Petrosino can break it down for you.

Once again, Jennifer Petrosino is ready and willing to help answer your questions.

Sheiko or Westside? How to make it work.

Clint, when is it time to leave one girl for another?

I am now 3 weeks out from the meet… Mentally, I have been better.

Most people aren’t willing to risk life or limb in a backyard meet. Yet, that’s what happened as Kandahar Airfield hosted its second annual “1000 lbs. Club” powerlifting challenge in Afghanistan.

I’ll need to learn how to either let go of the past (misses) or to re channel the energy into something positive and EAT.

I’m half way through the training cycle for my meet. I almost forgot how hard training for a meet is on your body.

Is the use of bands and chains some magical tool that will create supermen?

They say you can tell a lot about a person by the company he keeps. If you associate with positive, motivated, driven people it can only rub off on you and make you more successful in anything you do.

The other day in the gym, the topic of ab training for strength came up. I figured there was nobody better to ask than 1100 pound squatter Matt Wenning.

Use the guidelines to increase your speed strength.

I have employed the conjugate system of training with my throwers’ lifting program for four years with tremendous success. One highlight in the weight room was taking a male thrower with a 385-lb squat freshman year to a 615-lb squat/500-lb front squat as a junior. We also had a thrower make a 60-lb PR in the hang clean after not attempting a single training rep in that lift for six months.

I had finally done it! After countless hours of talking about it and planning just how I was going to do it, I opened my own performance enhancement training business. Well sort of…

I get bombarded with emails on a daily bases ranging from business issues, training questions, product opportunities, spam and a number of other issues. While I personally answer most of my emails there are times when I forward them onto people I feel can do a better job answering the questions than I could.

“People need to understand how to train themselves. When that happens and they finally figure it out, they no longer need to use someone else’s program. That’s the breakthrough factor.” –Dave Tate

I received this article and immediately realized that Alan’s plight mirrors many other lifters.

Coming up with new articles each month can be a challenging task and coming up with quality information can be even harder. After a couple hundred articles I find myself repeating myself time and time again.

I get calls just about every day asking for help integrating strongman training and Westside style training and I see a lot of confusion with this.

Jim Wendler has written a great series on tips for beginners. I was talking to Dave Tate about it and he gave me the idea for this article. I want to share what my workouts looked like when I first got to Westside Barbell.

When I first started training using the Westside methods, I would often end my max effort exercise and feel like I didn’t do anything.