Plague of Strength

Conveniently bundled for the powerlifter who wants to know EVERYTHING there is to know about the sport, The Ultimate Powerlifter Pack contains three ebooks jammed with programs, training and diet techniques, and weight cutting techniques so that you are never without an answer to a question or a solution to a problem when you’re in the gym or on the platform.

Destroy the Opposition
Destroy the Opposition is THE definitive text on powerlifting from former all-time raw world record holder Jamie Lewis. This bulging, 258-page ebook contains the routines of many of powerlifting’s superstars and champions, from the odd lifts period of powerlifting through the modern era, details the history of powerlifting and the powerlifts, Jamie’s personal take on the performance of the three lifts, and programs for everyone from the rank beginner to the elite competitor.

Featuring bench routines from:

• Doug Young
• Rick Weil
• Jennifer Thompson
• Ted Arcidi
• Jeremy Hoornstra
• Scot Mendelson
• Ken Fantano
• Bev Francis
• Ken Lain
• Ed Coan
• Jim Williams.

Deadlift programs from:

• Lamar Gant
• Konstantin Konstantinovs
• Bob Peoples
• Benedikt Magnusson
• Rickey Dale Crain
• John Kuc
• Ed Coan
• Julia Zaugolova.

Squat programs from:

• Idalberto Aranda
• “Mad” Mike Kuhns
• Andrey Belyaev
• Sam Byrd
• Paul Anderson
• Phil “Squatzilla” Harrington
• “Captain” Kirk Karwoski
• Mikhail Koklyaev

Whether you are a casual lifter or competing for a world record, Destroy the Opposition can provide you with invaluable tools for achieving your goals.

Prepare for War
The most hated man in Powerlifting, Jamie Lewis, offering his thoughts, tips, and hints on how to prepare your mind and body for competitive powerlifting…

The ultimate in competition prep, Prepare For War is the 72-page sum total of raw all-time, all-federation powerlifting former world record holder Jamie Lewis’s knowledge on the subjects of cutting and training for meets.

Inside, you’ll learn how to diet during meet preparation, alter your training to maximize your total, why cutting for meets makes sense, and how to cut water and then recomp to be at your biggest and strongest. You’ll also learn how to pick your attempts, and what craziness you should expect during a meet.

• Starting three months out, you learn to:
• Pick a diet
• Pick a program
• Reverse engineer your total
• Bodyhacks for cutting fat more quickly
• Train and diet in the last week before the meet
• Cut water weight using a variety of methods for both a 24 hour and 3 hour weigh-in
• The amazing art and science of glycogen supercomposition

Westside Connection

Although the Ohio Westside Barbell Club has marketed itself far better than the original Culver City, California crew did, the former is a shittier, fatter, and far dumber iteration on the original. Rather than improving the methods of the original crew, they made them worse by introducing the methods of Soviet weightlifters to them. Those same Soviet lifters were ignoring the idiotic advice of their coaches and were following the advice of George Frenn and John Kuc, a world-record holding Olympic hammer thrower and former training partner of Jon Kuc, who years later would set a slew of massive powerlifting records.

In Westside Connection, you will learn about the original Westside Barbell, the crew who is basically responsible for turning powerlifting into a sport.

• You’ll learn about its three founders, powerlifters Bill “Peanuts” West and Joe Dimarco, and world record-holder in the outdoor hammer throw George Frenn; you’ll learn about the methods they developed (stripped of Louie’s unnecessary and unproductive tinkering and his asinine addition of periodization); and you’ll come to discover the Frenn was basically the god of powerlifting as far as the Soviets (who were again ignoring the periodization schemes developed by their coaches and using the methods of Frenn).
• Then you’ll discover who influenced them, and what their methods were. It’s here you’ll read about US Olympic weightlifting gold medalists Tommy Kono and Ike Berger, and how they and their teammates on the US Olympic weightlifting techniques transmitted their methods to the members of the Westside Crew.
• You’ll find about the lifters that Westside spun off, like Roger Estep, who would transmit Westside’s methods to his home gym in West Virginia and turn his home gym crew, the Wild Bunch, into a legitimate East Coast competitor to the Westside Crew.

This 128-page ebook is jam-packed with badass training routines from tons of god-tier lifters who were either a part of, and influence to, or an offshoot of the original Culver City, CA Westside Barbell like:

• legendary strongman and proto-powerlifter Chuck Ahrens
• US Olympic gold medalist in weightlifting and the 1950s god of squatting, Paul Anderson
• US Olympic weightlifting gold medalist and avid bodybuilder Ike Berger
• four-time FICH Mr. World-Universe and US Olympic weightlifting god Tommy Kono
• inventor of the incline bench press and god-tier bench presser Steve Merjanian
• the god of deadlifting before powerlifting was even a sport, Bob Peoples
• and the methods utilized by the odd gym that served as Westside’s primary local competition- Zuver’s Gym, an aggressively evangelical Christian Disneyland of a gym
• the only powerlifter Joe Weider ever begged to compete in bodybuilding, Roger Estep, whose body was as beautiful as it was capable of astonishing powerlifting feats
• Phil Grippaldi, a guy who went from being a world record holder in the Olympic Press and possessor of absurd 21″ ams at 198lbs to holding what I would imagine to be a world record for the world’s oldest crack dealer, as he was arrested at the ripe old age of 61
• and Pat Casey, the dude who was the first man to bench 600lbs in competition, as well as the first person to squat 800 and the first person to total 2000lbs.

That’s 458 pages of badass powerlifting programs, diet tips, and training techniques in one easy-to-download package for only $50 bucks!

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