Conjugate
Most popularBased on the Westside Barbell method, tailored to the everyday lifter. Maximal strength, power, and hypertrophy in one program.
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Done-for-you training programs from Andy Baker, co-author of Practical Programming for Strength Training and The Barbell Prescription. Twenty years of coaching intermediate-to-advanced lifters, an IPF Masters World Champion, and thousands of working guys tired of training without a real plan.
Who this is for You've been lifting for years.
You've been lifting for years.
Your programming
hasn't kept up.
You're past the novice phase. You know what hard work means. Training is a priority. You haven't missed a training week in longer than you can remember.
But you're honest enough to know your program could be better.
You're tired of failing to hit numbers you should have hit years ago. And you aren't getting any younger.
Maybe you spent a decade chasing barbell strength and realized you're strong but don't look like it. Maybe you're over 40 and the programs written for 22-year-olds are starting to break you down. Maybe you're a garage lifter running the same thing you wrote for yourself three years ago and wondering why the numbers stopped moving.
You don't need another app. You don't need a 12-week transformation. You need programming written by someone who's been doing this longer than most online coaches have existed, for lifters exactly like you.
Programs Eighteen programs.
Eighteen programs.
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what are you training for?
Power-building, pure strength, hypertrophy, meet prep, or programs written for the over-40 lifter. Each program is done-for-you: exercises, sets, reps, percentages, and progressions included.
Power-building
Strength and size in the same program.
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Strength
Squat, bench, deadlift, press. Get them all moving.
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Hypertrophy
Programming for lifters who want to look like they lift.
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After 40
Training that respects your recovery without insulting your ambition.
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Meet prep
Peaking programs tested on real competitors.
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Bundles
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Basic Barbell
Old-school, barebones strength training. Built around a garage or basement gym. A barbell and a rack is all you need.
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Over 400 members, most training 3-4 days a week, most over 35.
Coaching since
2005
About Andy Co-author.
Co-author.
Gym owner.
Still coaching every week.
Andy Baker has been coaching lifters since 2005 and running his own gym, Baker Personal Training (formerly Kingwood Strength & Conditioning), since 2007. His clients range from Division I college athletes and an IPF world champion to lifters in their 70s and 80s, and everyone in between.
He co-authored Practical Programming for Strength Training, 3rd Edition with Mark Rippetoe and The Barbell Prescription: Strength Training for Life After 40 with Dr. Jonathon Sullivan. Both books are still among the most-referenced texts in barbell training.
Andy holds the NSCA's highest credentials, is a USA Weightlifting and Starting Strength certified coach, and competed as a raw, drug-free powerlifter. He won the 2010 NASA Grand Nationals in the 198 lb raw division with a 529 squat, 380 bench, and 562 deadlift.
He served in the United States Marine Corps from 2003 to 2007, including multiple combat tours in Iraq.
IPF Masters World Champion, 2022
Andy coached Shelly Stettner to a 1st place finish at the IPF Masters World Championships in the M4 class. She was 71.
Andy also takes a small number of custom coaching clients each year — fully tailored programming with video review.
Practical Programming for Strength Training
The Barbell Prescription
From the blog Free programming articles.
Free programming articles.
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№ 01 · Featured
A Simple, Complete Guide to Conjugate (Westside) Training
Read on → № 02Structuring 12-Week Heavy-Light-Medium Programs
Read on → № 03Why the 8-5-2 Program Works (In a Nutshell)
Read on → № 04Top Set / Back-Off Set Programming
Read on → № 05Training on Imperfect Schedules
Read on → Free · PDF № 001
6 Week Bench Press Program
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Free program: the 6-Week Bench Press Program.
A complete 6-week bench press program with sets, reps, and progressions laid out.
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