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These are a few lifting routines I've made, or compiled from books or the internet. Feel free to use them for your purposes! However I would like to request that if you are using one of the routines I made, please do tell me how your progress fares. I'd love to know. =)

By the way, as of March 7, 2004, I'm adding training tools - various programs or articles I've made which aid in our path of physical culture. And I'm gonna add links too! Only the best, of course. :)

If you are the author of one of the following routines, and feel I am somehow violating your copyrights by posting them, then I'm terribly sorry. Please e-mail me at anton@leathercollection.ph and I'll take them down. Interesting note though, in all my years of internet crusading on physical culture, I've found that lifters are the nicest people and they never mind these copyright brouhaha provided they're credited. Though if an exception comes up, well that's why this little paragraph is here.

My Routines:
Traps & Shoulders Specialization This is a routine I made for all you shoulder lovers out there. It's meant to be a 6 week specialization program. Run phase one for 2-3 weeks, then follow it with phase two for 2-3 weeks as well. Pack on some gorilla traps I hope!
Fat-Loss Powerlifting Routine Ah, the ultimate paradox: a skinny powerlifter. This program was moderately successful and infinitely tiring. This is here for archive purposes as I doubt I'll recommend this to anyone. The strength_list called this program "interesting" and "funny." I doubt they meant that in a positive way. BTW one must be familiar with Westside methodology to understand this program.
Dumb as a Brick - Basic Lifting Routine This routine is the most effective routine I ever made for myself. I used it a year into my powerlifting stint and it earned me a lot of raw PRs in a very short span of time (such that I was close-grip benching RAW more than I ever lifted in competition). Oh and BIG QUADS! I miss this program. Try it! It's failsafe.
All Dumbell Routine Not my best routine but a reasonably good one. Great for stabilization & rounding out of physical attributes. I used this for preparing for combat sports as I found that barbell work does not have enough freedom of motion to train the stabilizers well enough for combatives.
Shoulder Specialization Routine My current routine as of March, 2004. Tried and tested, fantastic, absoulutely, IMHO. High volume shoulder work, without neglecting the posterior deltoid. Tends to hit the traps hard too. This workout is great for strength and mass on the shoulders - it put half-an-inch on my shoulders in just one month! WARNING: This routine may give you terrifying boulder shoulders. ;)

Borrowed Routines:
Power to the People (Step Progression) by Pavel Tsatsouline An abbreviated strength routine for daily training, uses a linear progression that "steps" for adjusting to weight plate increments. For use with a compount excercise. Run up to two cycles concurrently.
Power to the People (Wave Progression) by Pavel Tsatsouline Same as the above, with an oscillating wave progression.
Power to the People (be a Bear) by Pavel Tsatsouline A functional size and strength program. Do no more than two lifts under this protocol.
Eight Week Powerlifting by Jason McKenzie A classic PL cycle.

Training Tools:
Achieving Structural Balance Computational Sheet Charles Poliquin wrote the article "Achieving Structural Balance" for T-Mag, and it came with a table of compound lifts, which needed a particular weight ratio to the other lifts. I made a sheet so you could take any reference lift (Poliquin uses the Close-Grip Benchpress) and punch in your max in that lift, and it will spit out what you should be lifting for all the others. It's very important, especially when it comes to knowing if your external rotators are up to par. Because if they aren't, chances are that's why your shoulders hurt so much.
Siff Score and Russian Standard Computation for Powerlifting, Weightlifting and Assistance Exercises(v4 as of 8-8-2004) This is in memory of Dr. Mel Siff who made the formulae incorporated into this spreadsheet. Siff scores are a measure of how strong you are for your weight, and how you stack up against the world class standard. They are indices (benchmarks) of how well you are maturing as a powerlifter or weightlifter. These scores were used to create a continuum for the Russian Weightlifting Standards (Master of Sport, Class I, etc.) of Mochernyuk and Draga. This tool can then grade the powerlifting or weightlifting total, squat, benchpress, deadlift, snatch, clean and jerk, olympic press, front squat, olympic squat, power clean and power snatch, according to their ratios to the Siff World standards, in terms of scores (percentage of world class) and Russian class. In short, this tool grades all your lifts numerically and qualitatively. This is the MOST EXPANSIVE grading tool yet!
Siff Score Computation for Weightlifting with Russian Standards and USAW Competitions and Teams Qualification This is what happens when a lifting kid spends too much time on the computer. Siff scores, via Mel Siff, are the best correlative, continuous weight (non class based) formulae for correlating bodyweight to world record totals for powerlifting and olympic lifting. But all standards can be transposed to siff score requirements so they become bodyweight continuous. This is exactly what I did with Bud Charniga's Russian Class grades and the USAW competition and team qualifications. This spreadsheet grades your olympic weightlifting total, snatch and clean & jerk individually to give you your Siff score, Russian class and which competitions and teams you qualify for by USAW standards, at the level of each of your lifts.
Repetition Volume Calculation Sheet Spreadsheet for calculating total weekly volume (in reps) for the various body part designations (quad-dominant, hip-dominant, shoulders, upper back, lats, chest, abs, biceps, triceps). I generally use 100 reps per bodypart as an average, going down to 60 for reduced volume and up to 140 for high volume.

Physical Culture Links:
Natural Strength: Iron Game & Physical Culture History This site, ladies and gentlemen, is the reason why I call what I do Physical Culture. This is the proud tradition I look up to. This is one of those cornerstones that make me what I am.
JV Askem: The Cable & Bar Guy JV Askem's site was one of those that shaped my physical culture career and paradigm. He kept training very simple and wholistic, never neglecting strength and structural balance in favor of vanity. He also is the reason why I hold the Olympic Press in such high esteem. Unfortunately Mr. Askem has passed away, yet his site remains mirrored on Ontario Strongman, a lasting contribution to our world.
Dan John's Lifting and Throwing Page Dan John is a theologian. Let us say certain beliefs made me postpone my addition of his site to this list. But after reading his articles over and over again, I have to say: this guy is simply inspiring. Of particular interest to me are the Gold, Silver and Bronze medal ratings in the Hoffman Standards. Forget bicep measurements. These standards are the real measure of a man.