What does Jow Forums think about this guy?

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he's a good dude but honestly kettlebells are fucking useless for pretty much anything

kettlebell gang at my gym are the biggest baddest dudes

wish my dad was a soviet special forces instructor

Me too user

> Russian Bear

I was originally going to run Russian Bear at the beginning of the new year, but in PTTP he doesn't seem to provide enough details to really put the program together, and when I looked it up it seemed like in interviews he kind of went back and forth on what was appropriate frequency.

What did it look like when your ran it? Did you actually just do two lifts while running his programs?

If you can get jacked off dumbells no reason kettlebells wouldn't work too.

Pavel tsatsouline is a fucking hidden diamond in the rough that changed the way I lift, felt like a retard making no progress then starting greasing the groove and it felt like making noob gains again

Press twice a week, deadlift once. Gunning for as many sets of 5 as possible at a fixed weight.

I did two lifts for Russian Bear (Bench Press and Lat Pull-down) plus 1 set of Squats, 5x a week. It worked very nicely, both in terms of strength and mass gains, since I was lacking that higher volume work and had plenty of time to rest;
I was coming from a regular 3x5 beginner program, my upper body was lacking in comparison to my lower body (3.5pl8 Deadlift for reps but was barely over 1pl8 Bench)

For Squats, 1x5 sets, starting at 70%RM and progressing from there on each day, 2kg total increments each day (like PTTP); for Bench and Pull-downs, 1kg a day for the first set, and 90% of that for 2nd set, and 80% or less for back-off sets (ie Russian Bear); ofc, I did not hit the same number of total sets every day (ie if I had done 15 sets on previous day, I was doing 5 or so the next day), whatever felt right
Besides the main program, I threw in 3 supersets of preacher curls (both regular and reverse grip), not much weight (just enough for pump), about 8-10 reps, it worked nice as well