Can anyone lay down a short summary of his books? I remember reading a kettlebell training thread a while ago here and iirc his training regimen could be distilled to 2 exercises or something.

Simple and Sinister: Swings and turkish get-ups

>>76253434 (OP)
Just do the 10k kb challenge and you're good. Pavka's a faggot who capitalized on a trend he created himself

>>76253642
This is underlined in Enter the Kettlebell too, but according to ChatGPT, the swing and the snatch may be combined to form a full body workout.

>>76253434 (OP)
they're all about different shit. if you mean ETK it's a prep to get you up to one arm c&p half your bodyweight and snatching a 54 for 10mins. the getups are on the middle day to help get your shoulders ready for the high volume snatches which are hard. you can get a bunch of stuff in his rogan interview and all of the books are easily found

>>76253434 (OP)
What you wanna know?

>>76253676
On the Joe Rogan podcast he kinda says the same. When asked what he mostly does nowadays, Pavel says swings and dips.

>>76254252
Summaries of his books and whether the proposed routines work or not.

>>76254350
Well, his original program, which was for barbells, called Power To The People, is a simple but effective program. Its just
>Deadlift 2x5
>Press 2x5
>5 days a week
>3-5 min between sets
>Leave a few reps in the tank
>Go and get a life
I use this when I'm time crunched and only have 20 min to work out.

>>76253434 (OP)
grease the groove
do like 50% of your max set several times throughout the day, maybe 5x through the day
for example: 5 pullups if you can do 10. 3 snatches with 24kg. 2 pistol squats. etc.

>>76254456
Gtg is great, but it should be done a little bit different than you describe it
>select such a low rep range that you can perform the same set again immediately
>every rep should be done with great form (another reason to choose low rep range)
>don't count the sets, just do as many as you like

I do way more than 5 sets through the day.
I wake up and do a set of pull ups. Bathroom, breakfast, I do another set. At work if I see an opportunity I do a set. Back at home I do set before heading to the gym. At the gym I do a set if I like betweet sets. While cooking dinner I do a couple sets.... everytime you have the opportunity and you feel fresh you do a set. At weekends I do 20 sets without it having a noticeable effect on my daily routine.

>>76255914
>Oh look guys, it's that weirdo who randomly hangs onto things and pulls himself up, then goes away. Be careful, he might shoot up the office one day.

>>76255914
thank you for the added clarification
I was just listening to the huberman convo with pavel and that's roughly how he outlined it but I think your definition is better

>>76253434 (OP)
I know everything about Pavel Tsatsouine's training methods. AMA

>>76255914
ok but how does that reflect on your body? post pics

>>76254358
One armed barbell side press btw

>>76253434 (OP)
30lbs kettlebells are too heavy for my arms. I am a male. Am I weak?

>>76258636
gtg isn't about hypertrophy, it's about strength, health and readiness

>>76254456
gtg is goated. ever since wfh covid years I just set a timer every hour and do 1 set of push/pull/legs. i'll do 8 sets during work, then another few after work...way more volume than you get going to a gym for 45 minutes

>>76258634
Have you ever had your heart broken

>>76253830
You'll get 95% of the benefits from just doing one arm swings. If you're worried about overhead stabilization then do some presses with the kettlebell. Kb snatch is a jewish trick invented to sell seminars. And no it's not like training to be an fighter without getting in the ring like the lightbulb headed faggot claims, it's not testing how big your balls are, it is just a retarded exercise.

>>76253434 (OP)
>Can anyone lay down a short summary of his books?
They're all different but he likes intensity more than reps.
This is in contrast to actual russian girevik sports, ie. the kettlebell sport, which is all about amrap.

>>76258636
Not him but it's CNS gains mostly. Basically, they consider strength a skill that grows the more repetitions you do.

>>76258131
Yeah, it depends on your profession. Weird in an office, no problem on a construction site.

>>76258636
It is strength, not hypertrophy. Gtg is not my workout, I do a basic routine too.
But I can assure you that it will benefit your workout routine. Grip strength improved for example which translated to every pull exercise I do.

I'm too old for chasing the Zyzz physique (women don't give a fuck) and all I want is a healthy body that is capable of doing fun stuff. Proper climbing/hiking without having a heart attack, MTB for hours, kayaking, play basketball/soccer with my buddies, have ridicilous stamina for sex...

>>76258854
Correct.

Is there any real kettlebell chest work besides pushups on the bells? Is that even an improvement on regular pushups in the first place?

some russian anon said Pavel is fake, that kettlebell swings were never practiced in russia. moreover, it's like 1/2 of the kettlebell snatch, why only stop midway?

>>76259170
how have the results been?

>>76260102
you could do floor presses with the kettlebell

>>76258854
>gtg isn't about hypertrophy, it's about strength
In the long run, how much strength you have is directly dependant on how much hypertrophy you have

Staying skinny limits your strength potential. So if it's not good for hypertrophy, it won't be good for strength.

>>76261946
Not true. A simple comparison between an olympic weightlifter and a bodybuilder will show you that strength does not necessarily go hand in hand with muscle mass. You can be very strong without the huge muscle mass.
There is also a couple of videos where Magnus Midtbø impresses some huge guys like Larry Wheels or Eddie Hall with his strength.

>>76262758
Cope. First of all weightlifting has weight classes. If size didn't matter, the strongest man in weightlifting wouldn't look like this. Second, weightlifting is hugely technical. It involves a lot of balance and ability to move effieciently above just raw force output. If you compare any weightlifter with a bigger bodybuilder, the bodybuilder will almost always have greater strength throughout his various muscles, even if he can't clean and jerk as much. This is a fact. If you want "strength, health and readiness", you should bodybuild and get strong on heavy barbell lifts first. Pavel was a DYEL.

>>76262836
Strongest man in weightlifting:

>>76262836
Dude, this is basic stuff. If you want to get strong you don't follow a bodybuilding program. We'll make it even more simple: Compare a powerlifter with a bodybuilder doing a simple deadlift. All the extra mass the bodybuilder has does not necessarily translate to strength. Compare thousands of them and you'll probably get two pretty graphs showing you the average difference.

>>76262758
>Magnus Midtbø
I hate his videos because he is so overpolite with everyone that eveyone becomes overpolite with him. Like he absolutely sucked in armwrestling with some injured guy who armwrestled with him with left hand, but that guy was like "Oh you so strong! You almost moved my hand by an inch!"
Same with Larry Wheels and the video where he trained his back. Larry is absolutely so much stronger than Magnus but forced to say something like "Oh my God I'm so impressed you are so strong I can't believe it!"

>>76253434 (OP)
Pavel Tsatsouline sucks, knows nothing about training, trained zero successful athletes, is a DYEL himself, prone to cite some shitty pseudo science retards like Victor Seluyanov that unknown to western people

>>76262862
You don't train to become big OR strong. You train to become big AND strong. That's it.

>>76262881
a bit harsh on pavel

>>76261173
Why not power clean your deadlift 1 rm while you're at it, you have lifted the bar halfway up anyways

>>76263280
Yeah superset it with cock push ups for insane gains.

>>76263434
Transverse kegels is a better assistance lift

>>76263472
Just do sphincter bracing to become better at preventing involuntary rape. Combined with cock curls this can make you the biggest horse freak ever. (look up ligma)

>>76253434 (OP)
His books are basically short pamphlets and even then are still stuffed with pointless filler. His general philosophy of fitness is good though. I based my early lifting on his "power to the people" (which I of course did not buy, I merely skimmed through it at a books-a-million). The basic gist being lift heavy for few reps do full body movements grease the groove. Worked great, got strong as fuck real quick.

>>76263480
Solid advice, I had been doing russian full contact twist that I read in pavel's books with the end of the barbell inverted into my ass to work my rectum in the rotational plane, it might be a good idea to switch things around a bit

>>76263505
Yeah that should increase the zest and moist of your a$$ and you can never be too spicy. If anyone ever happens to fishhook your sphincter your prepared.