Last week's interview

[Mark Rippetoe]

Can be found here: http://attendthisevent.com/?eventID=11913519

The panel was myself, Pavel Tsatsouline, John Godina, Yosef Johnson, and moderated by Charles Staley. The topic is programming.

[Gary Gibson]

Wow. Like Spider-Man teams up with Superman and Captain Kirk. Great stuff.

[milesdyson]

I tried to respond to this when you posted it that day.

Somewhere in here Yosef mentioned a study (by Matveyev?) on the relationship between additional strength and performance in the shot put. Godina said, paraphrased, "Too strong is basically never a problem. There aren't many Cantwells in the world."

Later on he said he put people onto Matveyev's basic periodization in the beginning (transitioning later to block periodization). You asked why, and he basically said it was a misunderstanding or something. His statements around this time were hard to follow, honestly. It didn't seem like you misunderstood him,but that he didn't "get" what you were saying. Did you just give up at that point?

[stronger]

Pavel really has some great things to say. Thanks for the interview

[Mark Rippetoe]

He clearly stated that Matveyev was useful for novices, yessiree. I said it wasn't. He said yes it was, and I said that since mathematically a linear increase every workout adds up faster than 2/month or whatever Matveyev yields, then how was it possible that Matveyev was better for novices? He seemed to stop there. Maybe I'm remembering it wrong, so correct me if necessary. The guy is just reciting the conventional NSCA "evidenced-based" undertraining wisdom.

I enjoyed Pavel's stuff. First time we've spoken.

[rick0202]

Détente has been reached, how the world has changed.

[milesdyson]

I just listened again. I remembered the sequence a little out of order. After you asked "How often are people PRing on Matveyev's plan?" is when he really started sounding flustered, around 1:15:00 in the video.

Basically he ends up saying stuff like, "The general strength... is the Matveyev idea, which makes more sense for low level athletes... The concentration stuff where it's really intense, in terms of high volume, higher intensity, is not necessary for a low level guy."

It sounded like he could only choose between "standard" periodization and block periodization. Didn't seem like he could grasp something simpler.

[MAD9692]

Yea, It was cool hearing Pavel and Rip agree on using the basic exercises and linear progression. Charles was a good host. It seemed like the Sports specific Track guy was just babbling and babbling about nothing really.
I think he defined Rips comment on how trainers sometimes make simple things more difficult in order to seem smarter.

[Tom Chase]

I don't know much about this Yosef Johnson guy but I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume he's never really been under a heavy barbell or has been strong himself.

[anchor]

pretty entertaining stuff from yourself and john godina. i've never read any of pavel's stuff or heard him speak, but he seems to know his stuff. that yosef guy..painful. not sure what he was on about, but he failed.