«This Should Have Been a Blog Post!» | Kettlebell AXE By Pavel Tstatsouline REVIEW 

Thanks for sharing! 💪

That sounds fun!

Appreciate the feedback, brother!

Glad you enjoyed it! I wanted to give the book the proper review it deserved.

You‘re welcome!

Glad to be of service!

Appreciate your feedback! The podcast with Prof. Robergs is really enlightening.

My pleasure!

It‘s a technique that‘s been referred to as the „Foot Kick“.

Thanks for sharing! 💪

Form always takes collateral damage when intensity is high and less recovery isn't bad. Injuries happen because load exceeds capacity.

Sounds like a solid EMOM workout; Thanks for sharing! 💪

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Thanks, brother! Sending love to Argentina; the homeland of Jeronimo Milo!

@@lebe-stark the ultimate professor

Glad you liked it, brother!

Keep us posted about your progress!

Thanks for sharing! 💪 I enjoy some of Pavel's protocols as well! They're not magic; but a fun way to train. I agree about athletes following periods in their prep (GPP, SPP, Competitive and Post-Competitive). In the competitive phase, they adjust to the compition climate. However, the general population doesn't need that approach but a mix of everything.

@@lebe-starkYes sir I agree. His protocols cover those. It is generally recommended for a beginner to start with Simple and Sinister. Go through that until they become stronger. Then after owning good technique add in weekly times challenges where you attempt 100 swings in five minutes and 10 get up in 10 minutes. After 12 or so weeks on that then switch to something like Axe for 6-12 weeks. Or Quick and Dead for 12 weeks then Axe. No magic but it is pretty comprehensive way to train. There is also the Rite of Passage training where the goal is to press 1/2 body weight with a single kettlebell and achieve 200 snatches in 10 minutes with 24kg.

I‘m aware of his programs and while I enjoy some of it, it‘s just his way of training. We follow a completely different approach in our work.

@@lebe-starkI agree

That's how you train for endurance. Add heavy weights and you get axe program

You're welcome!

Glad you liked it!

I'm just putting in the work, brother! Honored!

Appreciate the book recommendation; just added it to my wishlist! Thank you! PS: 40 pages in WLC's book and I thoroughly enjoy it!

Horrible on Nietzsche 😂 i remember that book in school was so simple to laugh at

Finally a true believer! So how do we prove the earth is only 6 thousand years old? Or that zombies ate real?

@@robertduluth8994 the sarcasm is rather childish, I'm assuming you're 12?

Nope. Evidence suggests, that nothing beats locomotion and true intervall training to boost endurance.

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Disagree on that one brother; but thanks for sharing! 💪

Thanks for sharing! 💪

Welcome back to the TMZ of kettlebells, friend.

Interesting view point! I've heard different accounts on the Soviet Training method… Do you have any sources to share to research further?

Great reading you in the comments, Moses!

Your last point makes a lot of sense! Thanks for sharing! 💪

No. Who said that?

​@@lebe-starkl think Steve Maxwell has that opinion.

In all fairness, Steve Maxwell seems like a bitter Ex-Kettlebell-Practitioner, who has an axe to grind with Pavel. No pun intended. LOL

Most of the coaches are sportsmen/women at the same time. And all of them get injured. It is a coaches responsibility to help his students to stay away from similar injuries that he/she suffered if any. Or the injuries he/she sees himself/ herself.

EMOM is a great way to train!

I don’t think it is but thanks for sharing! 💪

In light of our client base bein 48+ average age, these stop signs are still a joke, friend.

True Intervall Training can boost endurance. You still need the volume though.

@@lebe-stark in the book, they don't even call it "intervals" (check page 55), they call it "repeats". they say the difference is that in "intervals" there isn't enough time for "restoration" and in "repeats" there is enough time for it. What interests me, is this kind of training, with enough time for restoration etc. could help me do "snatches competitions" for example, of 10min without a break? in the book (page 86) they claim a kind of "yes" , but i doubt it. anyway i will give it a chance. btw, i saw in "squat university" a RU-vid with a similar method about pullups, they claim that to repeat 1-2 pullups with a rest, helps you do a lot of pullups without a break later.

The "Intervall Vs. Repeat" only adds to the confusion. I'm trying to clear it up at 12:00; go re-watch the section if you haven't already. "True" Interval training according to Woldermar Gerschler (who trained world-class track & field athletes) works like this: 1. 100 or 200 m run with an RPE of 8-9 (or if calculated properly, bringing your heart rate up to 180). 2. After completing, rest until your heart rate drops back to 120. In my case, it takes about 4 minutes. 3. Repeat up to 10 sets. 4. According to German Sports Scientist Toni Nef, your training still needs to build the volume for your competition. This training is brutal and I don't think you can achieve the same results with less intensity. Read Dr. Kenneth Jay's book "The Cardio Code" to answer your question, whether you can use strength exercises to build endurance.

@@lebe-stark wow 😲, thank you for the great detailed answer! i admit that i haven't seen all the video (it's hard for me to see vids longer than 5-10 min), but i will! thank you again, and thank you for all the knowledge you give to ppl! god bless you!

Appreciate the feedback! I recommend you sharing your thoughts in the StrongFirst forum.

@@lebe-stark yeah, that would be good, but it will be best if I just return to Q&D... I have tried it in a good way, and I love it, Pavel is wrong in all his next books if they are not exclusively about Q&D again XD

Regarldess of intensity, anything new you try out by yourself without proper instructions requires caution.

@@lebe-starkright, and then magnify with intensity and it’s even worse.

I hope you understand the difference between a regular practice and an occasional challenge.

Sure is!

I don't see how the evidence concerning Glycolysis and High Intensity in this video falls short and would be in support of Pavel's arguments. That being said, I still enjoy his "low-itensity" approach because it creates balance.

OK, here is what I got from your video. As i didnt read the book (dont really intend to) I will be relying on your presentation of it. Wall of text below because you asked. Have fun. Per your description it seems that Pavels thinking here can be simplified to dont get sore and dont push to the extreme while working out because he thinks its bad and he has some sources that may or may not be legit. (also trying to re-listen to this.. the intro.. please stop. the fluff on that intro.. your faith.. jfc just get to the point) the quote you took from the book that ends at 8:53 Pavel pretty much said that really high intensity should be reserved for extreme conditions such world class competition. The next sentence is Rob saying yes that's true. Pavel makes the point to not do it all the time not that it should never be done and Rob seems to agree. (see my comments on Rob at the end) (another side note the segment on Selouyanov... you just attacked the guy not a single thing you said was about the work in that segment. That is called an Ad Hominem by the way. This is not a legit way to make an argument. If you have something to say about his points you should argue those not him. That is just just low) Dr Yuri segment: you were saying how he doesn't support the anti-glycolytic approach and then went on on how he agreeing with Pavel by saying that all reps should look more or less the same. That is AGT training. If you cant repeat reps if you are over doing them or not fully rested. the quote you put on the screen "The best way..." that you think contradicts AGT principles. Doesnt. Difficult conditions does not necessary mean high intensity. This often means range of motion, stress (emotional/environmental thou could also mean load but usually pro lifters are not going for PRs in training very often) and the "or in large volume" large volume is exactly what Pavel is recommending, volume broken up by sufficient rest so you can do the volume well. So this quote has two parts one clearly supports Pavels argument the other maybe sometimes doesnt. So generally more pro than against. The quote with the 125 footnote, you just slapped it on the screen and completely ignored it. but also pretty much supports the ATG approach. I mean it literally says the Yuri doesnt think that Vo2 max matters. Vo2 Max is a measure of oxygen utilization during intense or max effort exercises... Almost perfectly supports the approach without flat out spelling it out. That German couch right after that also stated that you need to be fully recovered... The quote with 71 footnote was not Yuris opinion he was just defining the two methods. Did you even read that? Honestly i dont think you poked any holes in AXEs science. The only thing I see here is that you have an issue with the term anti-glycolytic training and are upset that you cant find it in others peoples work. In a quick google search it seems that they all come up to Yuri Verkoshansky or StrongFirst. So it seems that either Yuri or Pavel coined it. (another side note: that Dr Norton segment also completely unnecessary. Cramming more "information" is not needed when the information doesnt add anything, which it really doesnt you are just adding opinion of others to make it sound like there are more people on your side. In this case it wasnt even relevant. its like 'look i have smart friends listen to me' the guy himself made a pointless argument... its like inception up in here. ) Like I said originally, this is just another version of grease the grove which is pretty much what all his books are about (which is way i dont plan on buying another one of his books, its like reading Ayn Rand all here books are the same point made in different context) Its just a new routine to show the same principles. FYI: these are not crazy, its pretty much how most things are trained in the top levels. If you want to get fast you dont just run back and fourth until you are spent. You hit it hardish and wait until you are fully recovered and repeat. When you cant do that no more you stop. Same thing with lifting, throwing, martial arts... HIIT is something you do for fun if you are an fitness junkie and a quick google search will also show you that it does increase injury. jfc you even put up a highlighted section of his book saying to use no less than 80% effort then recovery... on further inspection, you really dropped the ball on this one. This Rob guy is just ball splitting taking it to the extreme which is meaning less. just for your mental masturbation pleasure that is called "reductio ad absurdum" though i think you put him on the spot there. So im not being critical of Rob. His argument seems to be coming from the actual term of AGT which again seems to be a made up term that is not used regularly. Thus Rob is just simplifying it to the words anti and glycolytic and not actually talking about the AGT method but over simplifying it to the literal word. Which again, is meaningless. I stopped at min 20. " I still enjoy his "low-itensity"" its not really low intensity its moderately high intensity (80%) with high recovery. Thats his entire work... come on man. I too have been trying it out with the snatch. I like it so far. Only been a week or two but I felt good on the mats.

I don’t believe there was full on attempt to completely disagree. This video is thought provoking. If anything we’ve been presented with questions and tempted to look for answers. I personally liked it. It’s refreshing to find someone in fitness industry that wants to have a dialogue as oppose of “I’m right and shut up.”