I listened to this podcast 3 times. I usually listen to these two or three times when I am out hiking in the woods. When I listened to this one I thought man I am sure someone will post about this podcast.
My thoughts about Pavel. True he is very Russian and I grew up watching Red Dawn and Rocky 4 in the 80's and was part of a Reagan loving, anti commie family, I still kinda like the Dude. I do appreciate he puts strength first and to me that's important. Now it seems those who use his programs with kettlebells seem to have a more defined physique (the whole abs thing) and also have what seems to be more muscular endurance (whatever the hell that actual is). Obviously with all of the Russian Scientist name dropping in the podcast he seems to be a man who has reviewed literature and tested and used his own theories and revised them as needed. That said he reminds me quite a bit of Tony Horton. He pumped out a program that has cardio and strength training and hey all the power to him and Tony.
Personally I have 4 different sized kettle bells in my basement gym and they work wonders for me. I have used them for everything such as barricading my basement door, holding the basement door open while moving out my foosball table and I even killed a wolf spider once with the 25lb kettlebell. In all seriousness once and a while I use the for some OHP when I travel and they are at the hotel gym and there is nothing else. I have also done some hip swings etc when in that predicament but its all soreness the next day and really once you can deadlift and squat 405lb, a kettlebell deadlift is useless, for me anyway. I would rather just drink beer and rest.
I know Wendler has used kettlebells in his training and other advanced lifters or former power dudes but he and the others are advanced and I am not. I'm not dogging kettlebells but they are useless for me.
I was however intrigued about the name dropping from him for Karwoski, Ed Coan, and Marty Gallagher in the podcast. I wondered how much of this type of program a beast like Ed Coan would actually use for his monster lifts when training? Personally, and maybe I am just naïve and undertrained, are kettlebell swings or an OHP or deadlift with a kettlebell going to help Ed in any way shape or form compared to the barbell itself with heavy weight???
Anyway, I just figured I would chime in, I like Pavel he seems like a cool dude trying from his vantage point, I guess it could be worse. I did get a couple of nuggets from he and Joe's discussion, such as cycling in a way to help the tendons and ligaments catch up. Not saying I agree or disagree but it made me think which is a rarity these days.
Sparky