Old Forum Questions for Pavel

[Deleted member 316]

My wife asked me today, with all the programs Pavel has, what does he do when he works out? Does he do one of his programs? I replied, whatever he wants , he's the Chief. Lol. But I didn't really know so I thought I would ask.

Also,I was just wondering if you had accomplished the beast tamer challenge?

Thanks Pavel.

 

[Pavel]

Hunter, right now mostly "easy strength" deadlifts, a press that does not bother my elbow too much: the concentric handstand pushup (starting on the bottom), sometime GU, etc.  Last month mostly swings rather than DLs.  I have not done the beast tamer challenge.

 

[Deleted member 316]

Thank you Pavel.

 

[Journeyman]

To piggyback off of Hunter's question--hook or toproll, Pavel?

 

[Pavel]

Aris, top roll or post-up.  The hook is mostly for stocky guys.

 

[Journeyman]

That was my guess--there are some lankier guys (at least with longer forearms) now who have strong hooks despite the leverage disadvantage, though, so I figured I'd ask.

 

[Rickard]

What is hook, top roll and post-up ?

 

I'm thinking hookgrip but the other two?

 

[Journeyman]

Rickard--I asked Pavel his preferred armwrestling technique.

Engin Terzi and Andrew Rhodes are examples of conventional toprollers, Travis Bagent is more of a posting/post-up toproller, and John Brzenk is a full hand/low hand toproller.

Alexey Voevoda would be an example of a high hooker, Rustam Babayev a hooker with more of a side hit/cup focus, and Evgeny Prudnyk a very low hook focused on supination... if you were inclined to search youtube. There are many more variants of the three basic techniques (hook, toproll, press) as well.

 

[Rickard]

This was totally diffrent than I imagined! Thank you Aris, you always give great info.