Pavel Tsatsouline

I'm more of an Al Kavadlo or Paul Wade kinda guy, myself.

I bulked on the russian bear routine from the book with OHP and deadlifts. i experienced explosively quick gains in both and some size gain in the beginning, though not much. after a few cycles of it, my OHP and deadlift had stuck and eventually regressed.

my opinion: as much as pavel is to be trusted for his kettlebell and mobility advice, this book is not representative of his new updated approach to strength training he offers these days. the book is pretty much a piece of marketing, aking use of supposed old time strongman training and old forgotten soviet training styles which i suspect were heavily bastardized. it promises aesthetics with OHP and deadlifts alone which is ridiculous. if you do the regular PTTP routine and not the bear, the volume is low as fuck - far too low to make any decent gains on it. what this routine did do for me, however, was improve my form in both OHP and deadlifts due to the high frequency which I believe was the reason for the majority of my strength gains.

tl;dr it won't give you anything that other routines won't do better. less is not more.

>>41450160
He has some good deadlift stuff out now, tho programs I don't think he's done any recently. Shame because I could really do with one good intense intermediate one.

Is it PTTP or Naked Warrior that has the weird sit up device.

>>41450160
>after a few cycles of it, my OHP and deadlift had stuck and eventually regressed.
Well he does recommend that one should alternate between PTTP and russian bear program.

>>41450730
He has a bodybuilding book out there, I haven't read it yet though.

looks like the volume is shit tbqh

>>41453492
Is it?
2x5 a day x5 days a week = 50 reps per week for the each exercise (ohp and dl at straight of book program, but you could add dips and chin ups as well)

In comparison, SS gets 45 reps per week for squats, and 30 reps per week for the other lifts.

Plus, the bear program has very high volume (2x5 heavy + 5x5 to 20x5 at medium to light weights).

anyone tried his kettlebell routines? Got no space for a squat rack and would quite like to be able to do kettlebell exercises at home. What sort of progress can i expect to make on them

>>41453572
pls help me

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>>41449998
Easy strength is his best program imo

>>41453788
They aren't going to make you into a super athlete or anything, but they are fun and different. I had some bad knees because of football for a while and kettlebells helped stay in shape without a ton of heavy squats