My first exposure to Pavel and his methods was Brick Muscle Jason Keen's short summary of a twenty-five dollar workshop he attended. This is when the Internet was first really opening up and I think Keen's article was one of the first non-bodybuilding or non-High Intensity Training articles I had ever read on the Net. Few may remember that "HIT Jedis" controlled and dominated the early Internet. Everyone was a Hard Gainer cursed by birth to a lifetime of weakness but blessed with an ability to type about it twenty-four hours a day Then, Pavel. Few know that I read Keen's review and tested this Soviet's training ideas. I did two sets of five of the overhead squat and the snatch grip deadlift five days a week and a hard flexibility stretch. Eight weeks later, I broke the state records in the snatch, clean and jerk, and total. To say that "I became a believer" is an understatement. I kissed the rattlesnake early on this movement.Even in Dan John’s first foray into following Pavel’s ideas you can already see the idea of limiting the number of exercises, of going deeper into the skills, of frequent practice, and of this magic number of realistic reps that seems to do amazing things for us when it comes to strength development. http://drozforskolin.org/brick-muscle-supplement/