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Power to the people pavel5/17/2023 ![]() ![]() My father, a Soviet Army officer, had me follow an identical routine in my early testosterone years. Roger Ivanovich’s next objective is a one-arm chin. Roger wisely conceded to the will of the Party and carried on with his ‘grease the chin-up groove’ program. A paranoid Stalinist that I am, I suspected that he plotted to work around the ‘chin every time you go to the basement’ clause.īy the degree of the Politbureau Comrade Antonson was issued one of those ‘Door Gym’ pull-up bars. Before you knew it, the old leatherneck could knock off twenty consecutive chins, more than he could do forty years ago during his service with the few good men! A few months later Roger sold his house and moved to an apartment. Every month or so Roger would take a few days off and then test himself. Each day he would total between twenty-five and a hundred chin-ups hardly breaking a sweat. ![]() Just a couple of months earlier I had put my father-in-law Roger Antonson, incidentally an ex-Marine, on a program which required him to do an easy five chins every time he went down to his basement. Video – Pavel’s “Grease The Groove” (GTG) Method I was amused when I read the arcane and non-specific advice the trooper had received: straight-arm pull-downs, reverse curls, avoiding the negative part of the chin-up every third workout… I had a radical thought: if you want to get good at chin-ups, why not try to do… a lot of chin-ups? Once I came across a question posted on a popular powerlifting website by a young Marine: how should he train to be able to do more chin-ups? It is so obvious, most people don’t get it. Specificity + frequent practice = success. Yet you never listened, why you little ***! If you did, how would you ever get the bright idea of deadlifting once every two weeks and doing ten assistance exercises for the bench press? Your grandfather used to tell you: to get good at something, you must do it often, do it a lot, and do it to the exclusion of other things. Our communist enemies, who are trying to bury us, have exercise breaks instead of coffee breaks. This article was first published in MILO: A Journal for Serious Strength Athletes under the heading “Chain Yourself to the Squat Rack and Call Me in a Year.” Pavel’s Grease the Groove Method for Strength ![]()
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