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“I do prefer playing well than playing pretty.” Diego Simeone

Episode #3

Stronger Than Cristiano Ronaldo

 Pavel Tsatsouline promises you that if you Grease to Groove Training, which is a simple training methodology from Soviet weight lifting, you would get stronger in a fast and safe way.

  This is how Grease to Groove Training works:

 Throughout the day, every day when ever you feel fully recover, at least 30 minutes of rest between the sets, you are going to do a set of half of repetitions of what you are capable of, so for example you get a griper and start squeezing it, and you could probably do it 10 times, but you only do 5 and put it down, lets say you pick up an a heavier griper and you could only do 3 then you just do 1, and in this particular matter you accumulate reps and you keep going and going.

 He asserts that science and experience show that this would make you stronger in a fast and safe way and that you can apply this training methodology, “Grease to Groove” to any strength and endurance exercise.

He also explains that for TRAINING YOUR ABDOMEN, you must apply this rules.

 You must keep the repetitions to five and under no more than five just to maximum five or under, everything else more than five reps are body building and you need to focus on tension.

 You must focus on contraction instead of reps and fatigue, for instance the plank exercise that works the mid section you must do it for not longer that 10 seconds and you must contract everything but your neck and face so you get on a plank and contract your fits and everything below your neck and face, your entire body.

 So to Summarize find any abdominal exercise that you like and 3 times a week do 3 to 5 sets of 3 to 5 reps focus on contraction, do not focus on fatigue, do not focus on the reps. Pavel promises you that if you follow his instructions for several months, applying them to your work, your grip and your abs, everything that you do today is going to be stronger, a soccer shot, a tennis serve and a bigger death lift.

This is taken from a conversation between Tim Ferris and Pavel Tsatsouline and can be find here: