Louie Simmons

Westside Barbell Owner Louie Simmons started his Olympic training at age 12, after being exposed to powerlifting at a meet in Dayton, Ohio. After serving in the Army, Louie continued powerlifting and entered the 1971 Junior Nationals.

He placed third. This was his first meet.

A year later, Louie made Powerlifting News’ top ten list, and a year after that he made his first Elite total. This was back when strength athletes competed without gear. Speaking of Elites, Louie is one of only six athletes in the world to hit Elite in five weight classes and Louie has been totaling Elite for over 40 years.

Louie is also the only lifter over 50 years of age to total over 2100 pounds—with a squat of 920. In 2000, he placed 4th in the open division with a total of 2100.

In other words, Louie Simmons knows what he’s talking about. Team MusclePharm is honored to have Louie with us.

Besides his own training, Louie has given back to the strength community countless times over.

Louie created Westside Barbell so true lifters could have a gym that wasn’t a place to show off, talk about fashion, check yourself out in the mirror—or whatever it is that those wanna-bes do with themselves. Westside Barbell believes in the use of a one-of-a-kind powerlifting training program called the HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugate_method"conjugate method. The team created this method after studying the complex-parallel and conjugate sequence systems promoted by the coaches in what used to be the Soviet Union.

In the more than four decades Louie has been working in the sport, he attained expertise in percent training, the conjugate method, dynamic training, the maximum effort method, lifting techniques, increasing work capacity and the reactive and contrast methods.

Louie trained 25 World and National Champion powerlifters, 27 of his lifters have totaled more than 2000 pounds and Butch Reynolds, the World Record holder in the 400-meter dash, trained at Westside Barbell.

Louie also published over 100 articles, produced seven training videos, and invented the Reverse Hyper® machine which he patented in 1993. Plus, the Cleveland Browns, Green Bay Packers, New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks employ Louie as a strength consultant for their players.

MusclePharm is proud to work with one of powerlifting’s true “Greats”.