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Originally Posted by hicktown

Hey whitetail,

what exactly is westside style training? you mentioned 9 months lifting 3 months off?

Like guns said it is a powerlifting routine , usually really low volume that focuses on increasing the big 3 lifts. I did a modified version that had some volume added.
All the training done is geared towards increasing your bench, dead, squat.
For example if you were training tris, you would be to training them to lock out your bench, not to make them grow per day. The growing was just the end result.
You pretty much train pressing one day, then posterior chain work the next. Some versions alternated dynamic work with max effort work.
It's a lot of, board presses, floor presses, banded bench, box squats, rack pulls, chains, pull thrus, reverse hyper if you are lucky enough to find that machine, etc....was fun at the time until my lower back let go on a dead lift
When I get back I will post up a real simple 3 day modified Westside split that worked really well for me.