GreyFox
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So, I've used a lot of Pavel's training methods over about a ten year period, but I've not been able to implement S&S on account of a low back injury in late 2013 that is cripplingly aggravated by even moderate volume hinging. These days, I mostly press (only cleaning once per set) and ruck.
Still, I've watched the S&S phenomenon with fascination, envy and no small amount of curiousity. In particular, I've read account after account of the dramatic physique transformations people have described on this board, and struggled to get a clear of image of what the fabled "fighter's physique" is supposed to look like.
Fast forward to this evening and I stumble upon some highly stylized images of Popeye
- that platonic ideal of the American sailor - and immediately thought of those descriptions of S&S transformations.
I've attached some of the images here. Is this the right general direction of what guys are experiencing? (Minus the chin and tats - but maybe keeping the pipe.) How are your actual results similar and different? And ladies, what are you seeing? (I'm betting nothing like Olive Oyl!)
Please - help me live vicariously through you.
Still, I've watched the S&S phenomenon with fascination, envy and no small amount of curiousity. In particular, I've read account after account of the dramatic physique transformations people have described on this board, and struggled to get a clear of image of what the fabled "fighter's physique" is supposed to look like.
Fast forward to this evening and I stumble upon some highly stylized images of Popeye
- that platonic ideal of the American sailor - and immediately thought of those descriptions of S&S transformations.
I've attached some of the images here. Is this the right general direction of what guys are experiencing? (Minus the chin and tats - but maybe keeping the pipe.) How are your actual results similar and different? And ladies, what are you seeing? (I'm betting nothing like Olive Oyl!)
Please - help me live vicariously through you.