“Strength Stretching is a virtual must for the powerlifter, novice or advanced. Our bodies change as our body mass increases, mostly unnoticed until lack of mobility and flexibility causes reduced performance, or worse injury.

Pavel has addressed these issues with time proven methods from the former USSR. Strength Stretching has helped Westside Barbell enormously and I know it will help everyone who is in powerlifting at any stage of the game."

— LOUIE SIMMONS, Westside Barbell

The iron elite knows that 'being tight’ is critical to making that big lift. At the same time you can’t put up a big squat, bench press, or deadlift without having just the right amount of flexibility and only in the right places. A paradox.

Ignore stretching altogether — and lose power to the joints that 'don’t bend easy’. Do stretches designed for fighters or other athletes — and toss away strength by the bucket… because you’ll lose your crucial 'tightness’. Either way, a dead end.

Not any more. Enter Strength Stretching by Pavel, the only flexibility program custom designed to up your squat, up your bench, up your dead!

“Pavel is a fitness visionary. He has been teaching people about whole body functional training when sports scientists and exercise leaders were emphasizing aerobics and muscle isolation bodybuilding techniques. He formulated his methods by combining training principles developed by Soviet and eastern European coaches and scientists, worldwide sports medicine research, and personal experience. His books and DVDs will help athletes increase power, functional flexibility, and neuromuscular control, while minimizing the risk of injury. Coaches, athletes, and sports scientists will benefit from his unique training courses.”

— DR. THOMAS FAHEY, Exercise Physiology Lab, Dept of Kinesiology Track and Field Team , California State University, Chico

What you can expect ...

• Gain up to 15% on your pulling strength — by learning how to properly arch your back
• How to arch higher - and bench more — without killing your back
• Master the Kettlebell Depth Squat — the Russian powerlifting secret for teaching perfect squat and pull form and developing championship flexibility
• Discover how to release the hidden brakes that are silently sabotaging your deadlift
• How to relax your turtle traps — and up your dead
• How to squat with the big boys — without killing your shoulders and elbows
• How to wide sumo with the best — and make it look easy

Andrew Lock- BPhysio(LaT), MPhysio(Melb), CFCE(USA), CRED M.D.T., MAPA

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As integral as amino acids are to create proteins so this DVD should be to any aspiring strength coach, personal trainer or power lifter. I often explain to my clients that resistance training is a sport, and anyone who pursues any sport usually employs a coach at some time to improve their performance.

Strength Stretching is a fundamental building block to anyone who is involved in the sport of teaching or training in the Squat, Dead lift, and Bench Press. There are so many points that Pavel demonstrates in these lifts that you need to make your own checklist as you go.

For the coach, trainer or performance professional you will learn enough drills that your clients will be busy for years to come as you pass on what you learn from Pavel. Pavel shines best in his understanding of the mechanics of stretching, and his applied techniques in this DVD will make you a much safer and stronger lifter. Strength Stretching by Pavel should be published as a book, but it isn’t, so you have to make up your own as you go through it.

This DVD should have come with a notebook and pen. You must take notes! You should end up with callous on our thumb from pressing the pause button as you furiously transcribe another gem of information. So don’t sit in front of this DVD slack jawed and eyes glazed. This isn’t “The Simpsons”. It’s Pavel!

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