Louie’s Lesson: The Importance of General Physical Preparedness [GPP]

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Louie’s Lesson: The Importance of General Physical Preparedness [GPP]

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In this video, Louie Simmons answers questions about General Physical Preparedness (GPP). Louie is adamant about continuously improving one's GPP to constantly break records.
Learn:
- When to do a GPP workout
- Why it is necessary
- How Louie improves his lifters' GPP
- How GPP impacts your ability to break records
- What kind of exercises you should do
- And more!
*There were some technical issues with the audio, so make sure to turn on the closed captions.
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For more exclusive interviews, video tutorials, webinars, master class with Louie Simmons, never seen before footage, and much more, visit Westside Barbell’s official education system at www.conjugateclub.com
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Louie Simmons is widely regarded as the 'Strength Coaches', Strength Coach' and is the founder of the world-renowned gym called Westside Barbell in Columbus, Ohio.
Westside Barbell is an invitation-only training laboratory where only the strongest of mind and body survive. Our goal is simple: “To become the best and push every boundary known to man in doing so.”
This gym has produced more world records in powerlifting than any other in the World, and Louie has been regarded as one of the main reasons that the conjugate style of training has been popularized in today's training methods.
Outside of powerlifting, Louie is a strength consultant for many NFL, NBA, MBA teams, along with having trained gold medal sprinters, pro boxers, UFC fighters, and many more athletes out of his gym via the conjugate method of strength training.
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@buttneked3963 3 жыл бұрын

PEOPLE MUST UNDERSTAND you never get this level of information from a “coach” without being on his team. And it’s on your tube FREE. God Bless this man

@WestsideBarbellOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment !

@philipevans576 Жыл бұрын

Freakin luv this - mind blown - I see the matrix code now…

@McCarthy1776 Жыл бұрын

And he's arguably the best powerlifting coach in history and coached athletes in a large diversity of sports. This crane operator who had PhDs and pro strength and conditioning coaches come to learn from him. RIP

@catedoge3206 6 ай бұрын

real

@heveyweightheveyweight5399 2 ай бұрын

This stuff is in books 📚 I learned a this without going to a channel . Bigger faster stronger in high-school taught this an I learned more about in books . No coach required

@scottscifers5428 3 жыл бұрын

I feel so stupid when I listen to Louie speak, he just understands things on a completely different level. I have to listen again and when it finally settles in, I'm completely blown away. He's a genius.

@WestsideBarbellOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

💪

@smokeymcpot69 2 жыл бұрын

This guy is my hero

@anandnairkollam Жыл бұрын

Same here

@vonchubbz9843 3 жыл бұрын

I just started lifting weights at 43 years old Better late than never This man is a LEGEND He is like the Wise man on the mountain.

@Darin451 Ай бұрын

Right on brother, better late than never keep kicking ass.

@29ervitus80 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve done tire pulls for years. Cheap set up. Outside , fresh air. Get an old tire and a strap, fill with rocks or dead bodies Walk!

@ShawnJonesHellion 3 жыл бұрын

I don't know nothing about them bodies if anyone asks.

@adtjtjdjsj Жыл бұрын

@@ShawnJonesHellionme neither.

@bigpizza5319 11 ай бұрын

Louie made so much sense. Get ready for anything is the plain and simple message but only Louie will take you there seamlessly. All he needs is payment in blood.

@pinksupremacy6076 Жыл бұрын

Louie seems like such a likable and genuine guy. I would die for such a mentor. Very much appreciated🙏

@WestsideBarbellOfficial Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@McCarthy1776 Жыл бұрын

Hahah he was evidently quite the opposite in real life. A great man and an amazing coach but he was notorious for being very hard, stubborn and aggressive but it worked for Westside Barbell. It's not Planet Fitness after all 😂

@cutechicken2534 7 ай бұрын

@@McCarthy1776 I would rather have a tough coach rather than a soft one . Makes me work harder to meet his expectations . Like my Dad lol

@ismailaboobaker5735 Жыл бұрын

In my humble opinion, that destroyer from the top of the ladder through the table is the best spot ive ever seen. The balls to do it, the execution,and nobody got hurt. Amazing stuff

@pretty_flaco 3 жыл бұрын

official grandpa dropping gems as usual

@stevenagle615 9 ай бұрын

I remember when you had to buy a VHS tape to hear Louie speak. A man way ahead of his time, RIP 😢

@Darin451 Ай бұрын

The good old days when we had PLUSA to read

@theliftleague4090 Жыл бұрын

I love listening to Louie talk shop. We're not powerlifting but we do try to implement conjugate methods combined with GPP, J.C. Santana's linear methods and the findings of Dr. Kraemer's non-linear studies. It ain't perfect but we're definitely on to something.

@intellectualninjamonkey2496 Жыл бұрын

J.C Santana is much more coherent though than Simmons. No comparison.

@lordtimothy9740 Жыл бұрын

Priceless info by Louie rip

@brandongreen5884 3 жыл бұрын

Very good! My understanding of GPP came from what I read from the "'Soviets Sports Review", Dr. Yessis (Michael Yessis) consults and what I read in the "Charniga translations" of Soviet Weightlifting theory. Not just "fitness" but "coordination, speed, etc." I saw the USSR volleyball team in the '80s (1987 specifically) in the old LA Laker forum in Inglewood, Ca. as part of a "round-robin" tournament. In the finals, the Soviets came out, and their warm-up looked like a "circus" -Walking on hands, Back Flips, Foward Flips, and then execute a "skill" (such as a "dig"). Except for the "setter" who would "windmill" one arm going in one direction and the other arm going the other at the same time and then switch! .

@bullerd82 3 жыл бұрын

Got to love Louis

@jasveenpal 3 жыл бұрын

Its Louie.. Its in the title man.

@LionelsHeart Жыл бұрын

St Peter welcomed Louie at the Pearly gates and announced, "we're having a deadlift contest!,get your ass in here 😊

@hunterholistichealth 3 жыл бұрын

This is gold...

@gareththomas3234 2 ай бұрын

You gotta listen to this guy

@ResistanceQuest 3 жыл бұрын

The Cus D'Amato of lifting, and Cus is the Louie of boxing

@WestsideBarbellOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

👌

@run2fire 3 жыл бұрын

I work with some guys that farm also. They are strong too! They don’t lift weights but lots of physical labor!

@gilmartinbodytempering1014 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this Excellent video . My question is I am a trail runner how would the workouts look like ie. frequency and duration. listening to Louie it's like a living encyclopedia of info.

@MaddTrapper-gn8qs Жыл бұрын

Are you talking about using conjugate to structure your running workouts? Or how to use weight training to benefit your running?

@gilmartinbodytempering1014 Жыл бұрын

@@MaddTrapper-gn8qs The latter weight training to compliment the running.

@markosekulic 3 жыл бұрын

God bless you guys! 🙏

@michaelderenne9838 Жыл бұрын

Such good info

@keithlittle293 2 жыл бұрын

Outstanding knowledge 🙌🏼🙌🏼👍🙏🏻

@davidduffy3021 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant

@josephwilkinson1610 2 жыл бұрын

Great stuff

@WestsideBarbellOfficial 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@konstantinviktory4199 3 жыл бұрын

Functional training. This is the good stuff.

@helmutkrusemann9194 3 жыл бұрын

does anyone know where I can buy a program where I can build GPP from scratch the right way? Thanks! Thank you very much westside barbell for sharing so much great content!

@jimmypax7367 3 жыл бұрын

If you train as a lifter I’d recommend Matt wennings channel for GPP workouts, he trained under Louie at westside. Search wenning warm ups on YT if you’re still looking, found them pretty helpful getting in shape personally (and it’s free)

@ettcnt3822 3 жыл бұрын

8weeksout maybe

@JR-RKO 3 жыл бұрын

I wish Louie would make more videos! I'd like to know what Lou recommends for healing rotator cuff issues

@louisl1616 3 жыл бұрын

Banded pull aparts and super high rep band work.

@RturokDaw 3 жыл бұрын

Go over to Donnie Thompson's page.

@patricksomaine3700 3 жыл бұрын

He talked about that. Lot of bamboo bar, battling rope/chain, indian clubs, etc..

@WestsideBarbellOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

Look up podcast 21 with John Quint

@mozzer920 3 жыл бұрын

What about that Johnny Cash and Elvis picture in the background?

@louisl1616 3 жыл бұрын

Louie likes good music?

@plumtree844 3 жыл бұрын

Didnt Tia Claire Toomey goto the Olympics in Weightlifting?

@rubberducky6159 3 жыл бұрын

You down with GPP?

@buttneked3963 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah You Know Me

@bobbydenezza7795 2 жыл бұрын

So from what Louie is saying in this video, can you do GPP as warm ups before your max effort lifts?

@MaddTrapper-gn8qs Жыл бұрын

No, you'd want a specific warmup i.e. hip extension for squat or deadlift. The nature of gpp is not specific

@glenntimmons4203 2 жыл бұрын

Good ole Louie..the man

@WestsideBarbellOfficial 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely

@duchaneaux 10 ай бұрын

“GPP is general pacific.” What did he mean by this

@HardcoreNaturalFitness 3 жыл бұрын

Too good

@wesyale2887 17 күн бұрын

General pacific? Got it.

@DM-jt4rh 3 жыл бұрын

I thought the 3 week pendulum wave %ages were 75/80/85........they just keep going up lol

@youssefelsherbiny 3 жыл бұрын

Yea cuz they're getting faster

@greffett1969 2 жыл бұрын

What gpp excercises for jiu jitsu/ submission grappling ?

@WestsideBarbellOfficial 2 жыл бұрын

www.westside-barbell.com/blogs/the-blog/wsbb-blog-gpp-for-wrestlers?_pos=4&_sid=42d06e7c6&_ss=r Start here!

@garrettday4086 3 жыл бұрын

all efficiency matters

@kv3515 3 жыл бұрын

This is great stuff.

@CWBush73 3 жыл бұрын

So what would a GPP be for a soccer player? At first he said GPP should not be far off from the sport. I know I can use GPP as I get tired during a weight training workout.

@glenntimmons4203 2 жыл бұрын

Plylometic jumps

@stefanomagaddino6868 3 жыл бұрын

Love Louie, but geez I can't understand half of what he says. Either he's talking too fast or changes his train of thought in mid sentence. Still, the man is fascinating.

@pretty_flaco 3 жыл бұрын

listen faster!!!

@WestsideBarbellOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

Turn on the captions

@rayt.7128 3 жыл бұрын

I am a Spanish speaker and I can understand him. Protect your ears.

@lewishumphries1630 3 жыл бұрын

Isn't it strange that GPP came on the Westside channel , here 6 days ago . Then on the Super Training channel 4 days ago??! 🤨

@xx-vi1mj 3 жыл бұрын

Are you saying anyone who talks about GPP is ripping off Westside?

@29ervitus80 3 жыл бұрын

Love Louie

@davidmb3376 3 жыл бұрын

So what kinda warmup does Louie recommend? He says it’s worthless to warm up and then a couple minutes later he talks about being fatigued from his warmup before squats

@jividenpower8195 3 жыл бұрын

He specifically said to warmup with the movement you're doing. lol He said the people doing all the crazy drills, foam rolling and stuff was not needed.

@ZaneGeeting 2 жыл бұрын

@@jividenpower8195 this. Also sled dragging. Treat your extra workout as your warm up.

@bobbydenezza7795 2 жыл бұрын

@@ZaneGeeting So basically do GPP work as your warm-ups before doing your heavy singles for ME lower or upper day?

@ZaneGeeting 2 жыл бұрын

@@bobbydenezza7795 I'm not speaking for Lou here (RIP) but I have trained conjugate for a long time, and Lou took time to help me on several different occasions. I like to pick 3 or 4 exercises for my weak points and hit them for a few high rep sets before my main movement. Right now I drag a sled backwards, do reverse hypers, and banded hamstring curls. I do them as a circuit for 3-4 rotations.

@incorectulpolitic 2 жыл бұрын

@@jividenpower8195 by drills you mean a/b/c skip, heel to butt etc?

@fatman9196 3 ай бұрын

Gpp book???

@noahsegraves4256 3 жыл бұрын

Garage gym thoughts?

@2kix 3 жыл бұрын

Did Big Lou say K BOX? (Kbox4 Platform)

@WestsideBarbellOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

Correct

@keithlittle293 3 жыл бұрын

What’s a whirl whirl??

@DaveFrazier69420 3 жыл бұрын

Don't quote me. but I believe that he meant "Wheel Barrow"

@keithlittle293 3 жыл бұрын

@@DaveFrazier69420 haha really

@DaveFrazier69420 3 жыл бұрын

@@keithlittle293 for sure. In their podcast I’ve heard him talk about different wheel barrow exercises. He loves em.

@keithlittle293 3 жыл бұрын

@@DaveFrazier69420 I was laughing cos I heard whirl whirl.. Wheel barrow would make a ton more sense

@DaveFrazier69420 3 жыл бұрын

@@keithlittle293 agreed. He totally said whirl whirl. And everyone walked right by it like “... right. Let’s not question Lou, I’m sure whirl whirl is great”

@tylercobb1516 3 жыл бұрын

What would a football driven gpp program look like?

@Sealed_Chamber 3 жыл бұрын

idk

@WestsideBarbellOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

prowler, sled, wheelbarrow!

@ResistanceQuest 3 жыл бұрын

@@Sealed_Chamber "IDK", is that some kind of exercise? Is there a Titan Fitness machine I can buy for that exercise? How much of the stack should start with? Sets/reps?

@Sealed_Chamber 3 жыл бұрын

@@ResistanceQuest Yeah.

@ResistanceQuest 3 жыл бұрын

@@Sealed_Chamber oh, nice

@louisl1616 3 жыл бұрын

How tall is a pyramid.

@Sealed_Chamber 3 жыл бұрын

idk

@louisl1616 3 жыл бұрын

As tall as its base is wide. It's what louie always says about GPP. It's the base. You won't become great without GPP

@Sealed_Chamber 3 жыл бұрын

@@louisl1616 Thank you.

@mayankprasad7317 3 жыл бұрын

🙏🙏🙏

@boxerfencer 3 жыл бұрын

1:50 by definition 25 reps with 80%1RM or an 8RM, is NOT 80% because it isn't an 8RM, but a 25 RM.

@ggooch97 3 жыл бұрын

55% bar weight 25% accommodating resistance.

@davidmb3376 3 жыл бұрын

It’s bar weight and bands combined to make 80%. Way different than 80% straight weight

@boxerfencer 2 жыл бұрын

Shit, it doesn't matter how the external load is composed. If you're getting 25 reps with it, it's not 80% RM period. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. To do so is like insisting the earth is flat or denying gravity.

@incorectulpolitic 2 жыл бұрын

@@boxerfencer 'gravity', the glue that sticks all the none sense lies together.

@its_james_fitness 3 жыл бұрын

I don't have the money or space for a sled, I wonder what Louie thinks of hill sprints as a similar alternative (if not a substitute)

@darksidetraining9815 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve heard him say it’s not sport specific for powerlifting, you could get an old tire or something but they sell sleds for cheap $80 I think. The guy from 531 talks about hill sprints though, I think great for gpp prob but not if your going for huge total

@chasecotter3077 3 жыл бұрын

kettelbells are great for gpp

@darksidetraining9815 3 жыл бұрын

@TurboBaner more then sprinting, u can load a sled. Moving heavy objects, it like doing a heavy leg curl.

@darksidetraining9815 3 жыл бұрын

@TurboBaner I would thing strengthening the hamstring is yes. What kind of work do u do to get your deadlifts up? Have u actually tried these things? I have, it Works.

@darksidetraining9815 3 жыл бұрын

@TurboBaner dude this is a thread on westside. If u follow there stuff Louie recommends sled drags and has said that sprints are not useful to a power lifter. Everything else your arguing is semantics. I’m quoting things I’ve heard him say. Go listen to all the podcasts, buy the book of methods and get back to me.

@TeamOMT 3 жыл бұрын

Louie, Love you stuff. BUT, you are wrong about the transferability to competition from GPP to another sport. When you were talking about CrossFit, Tia Clair Toomey 4x Fittest Woman on earth, went to the Common Wealth Games for Australia, and won GOLD in weightlifting, in the middle of a CrossFit season.... She also just a couple days ago announced she is now going to join Team Australia Bobsled to qualify for the Olympics, just a couple months after winning her 4th CONSECUTIVE CrossFit games title. It CAN be done.

@minecraftlord568 3 жыл бұрын

You’re talking about a freak though.

@FFAR05 3 жыл бұрын

Women sports on the whole are highly uncompetitive especially niche sports like these. Tia with her fitness advantage can just overpower most competition.

@ZaneGeeting 2 жыл бұрын

Extreme genetic outliers are always the exception and never the rule.

@Dr_Footbrake 2 жыл бұрын

The standard to represent Australia in bobsleigh is pretty low. Even I was only $$$ to go to America for a year away from making our team ~10 years ago, and about the only qualifying standard was that you were willing to move overseas lol

@bpswank429 Жыл бұрын

But Claire is juiced to the gills

@ufcjunkie7 3 жыл бұрын

You can have better sound than that guys

@DiegoGarcia-vt5kr 3 жыл бұрын

I don’t understand 20 reps @ 80%

@WestsideBarbellOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

That was done as an experiment. 1 set of 20 reps for speed strength. The lifters were able to maintain the same speed for each rep. A high level of GPP is required to be able to do this.

@bones2937 3 жыл бұрын

What is some gpp stuff for ice hockey

@WestsideBarbellOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

Sled walks (lateral)

@christianbolt5761 3 жыл бұрын

The Thomas Edison of power lifting.

@frankm2911 2 жыл бұрын

Is interviewer Irish?

@frankrizzo334 3 жыл бұрын

my gym is push up anywhere

@jamesjanotta2363 6 ай бұрын

I wish he didn’t talk so gosh damn fast

@ShawnJonesHellion 3 жыл бұрын

0 thumbs down

@jw1741 3 жыл бұрын

Am I the only lab rat that thought GPP was a supplement? I will WILINGLY do whatever it takes...☣️ Yes!...Yes...YESS! 😳😶😑😳 Oh ya of course not, I knew that....well I figured... probably wouldn't have done it anyway.... 🤕😔😔😭

@evanoliver6949 2 жыл бұрын

So wrong with his logic about rest times

@SolRC Жыл бұрын

I really am enjoying this, but I wonder when he says it's the Bulgarian athletes mental toughness vs the judgement of the team trainer. It's a really subjective way to make a point and therefore suss.