Kettlebell Simple & Sinister

by Pavel Tsatsouline

People who build their strength using these modern expensive gym machines can lift extremely large weights, show great numbers and develop impressive-looking muscles, but fail to lift a stone; they get completely hammered in a street fight by someone trained in more disorderly settings. Their strength is extremely domain-specific and their domain doesn’t exist outside…

Russians have an expression, “Die but do.” They amuse themselves comparing it with the American “Do or die.” Where a Yankee gets off the hook from fulfilling his orders if he croaks, a Russkie may not use death as an excuse.