Sometimes Old is New
July 15th, 2009
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by Dennis · Filed Under: Uncategorized
If something works, and has been proven to be effective for a couple hundred years, maybe we should take the time to investigate.
About 10 years, I was looking to spice up my training regiment and add new life to my workouts. By this time I had been weight training in one form or another for almost 20 years and I needed something new, something I could get excited about. I started looking around and found out about an extraordinary gentlemen by the name of Pavel Tsatsouline. I can’t pronounce it either so we will just stick with first names here.
Pavel introduced me to a whole new philosophy and appoach to powerlifting. The Russian approach. I figured, why not, those guys were always the ones bringing home the world championships and the olympic gold medals so I started to study his teachings and implement his techniques. My strength levels soared to new hights and did so in a very short period of time.
After a couple of years of following Pavel and reading everything I could get my hands on with his name attached to it, he introduced kettlebells to the western world. I thought to myself, that’s interesting man, check out this new piece of workout equipment. Only it wasn’t new. It was in fact a couple hundred years old. But hey, if something works, stick with it.
So I bought myself a kettlebell and a book and dvd on how to use the thing and off I went. Wow, was I amazed. Again, Pavel had opened up a whole new world for me and again me strength and conditioning level soared to new heights.
The moral of this story is that sometimes old is new. I had tried everything as it relates to strength training in the past and never got the results I had hoped for. And when I say everything, I mean everything. If there is a book on the subject of strength training or a magazine written in the past 25 years, I own it and have read it. Probably twice.
Pavel knows his stuff and his stuff works. I am living proof of that along with thousands of others. Hell, the elite Russian Special Forces, Spetznaz believes enough in Pavel to trust his training methods, so I guess this stuff works.
Yours in Health,
Dennis
