Although the book has only 2 main exercises. They are undoubtably the most bitchin 2 exercises you could fit into your every day life. Dont just look at the picture though, its the explanation of technique that makes this book a must. As with this knowledge you can apply it to many other exercises and not just body weight ones. The book also has a suble blend of humour, much like my own.
I would now like to be considered a Comrade of Pavel....I am off to put myself and mys students through a new hell.

I am a Catholic Missionary who works in Argentina back home in the States for a visit. I was looking for a low cost efficient way to keep in shape when gyms are not an option. I found some great ideas in Pavel Tsatsouline's book the Naked Warrior. I am a former College P.E.teacher and coach so I have always tryed to keep in shape. Pavel helps give order to a strength program. The GTG method is a great way to get a little in during free moments. Thanks for the lessons in Russian orthodox strength training.

Folks I am in awe at what I just accomplished.. I have only had my 32KG for a few weeks and have only done a few TGU's with it. I did try to press it immediately out of the box, fairly easy with my right but could not press with my left.
I got my copy of The Naked Warrior and have read it over the last few weeks as well and this morning went into my garage to "test" these techniques. Using the "tension and GTG techiques" I decided to "attempt" up to 5 presses each side.

Right - went fairly easy and compared to my first "attempt out of the box" much easier. Could have done many more reps.

Left - (thought in the back of my head beforehand that this would be a tremendous effort) 1st press goes up, 2nd, 3rd (excited at this point but waiting to run out of gas, 4th up fairly easy, number 5 a little harder but finally complete......... could have even done more!
As I stood there with my jaw on the floor I realized that I have been missing out for years, being a former athlete and a member of the armed forces I am very familiar with excercise, techniques, etc. I have NEVER experienced or seen anything that resembles this type of focused results. EVER!!!
If I can do this.... anyone can!
THE NAKED WARRIOR is a must read book for all! All hail PAVEL.

The breathing chapter was worth the price in itself!
Train anywhere.

...is the best ab work I've ever done! I weigh nothing (see my screen name), so "normal" ab crunches gave my abs no resistance whatsoever. I'd ended up pinning my legs and holding a dumbbell to get resistance, and even that was not enough. Now with the "back press" I can do it with no extra weight, and three pauses at the hardest points add an extra punch.
Added bonus - my hips stay loose, flexors don't get cramps.
This is the fist book I could find that really focuses on max. strength, and goes into the level of detail necessary to do the exercises properly.

This book is an excellent starting point for both understanding and attaining strength. Pavel makes important distictions about strength that every hard living comrade ought to know, and he does so in a very accessible way.

I thought I would never be able to do a pistol because I have longer than average legs. The techniques from this book allowed me to perform a pistol holding a 53 pound kettlebell in 2 1/2 weeks. It also helped my Military Press numbers with a 70 pound kettlebell.

This is a must read for people interested in strength.

I was very sick at the beginning of last year, January, and was bedridden for about two months. I have always been skinny, and had been slacking off big time before that, so was not in good shape. Then when I got really sick, I was unable to eat more than like a can of soup a day, if that, and I looked like an Auschwitz survivor within a couple of months that I mostly slept through. I literally barely moved. Mouse hand, that's most of it.

I got Naked Warrior and started doing cheated versions of pistols and one-armed push-ups. Severely cheated. I was having trouble walking up a flight of stairs at this point, and cheating was not something that bothered me in the slightest. Such tough exercises were simply not made for people like me at the time.

With GTG, I slowly picked up the ability to do very sloppy, cheating OAPU's and pistols to eventually 3 at a time, then a set of five, then two sets of three, two sets of five, etc. Never strong enough to really get the form perfect, but as long as I was able to do a partial movement, it was good. Strength was my focus, because my body was so ruined. I needed practical strength, not mass or beauty or endurance. I needed to be able to move!

Eventually I got to be able to do 5x5 with cheated pistols and cheated OAPU's. I was still weak enough that OAPU's put a severe strain on my shoulder joint, so I moved on to military presses when I got kettlebells heavier than the 35 lb'er I first got. I also got jumpstretch bands, which I used for deadlifts.

I staggered my way through military presses with the 44 lb. KB, then the 53 lb., then the 70 lb. I started with literally the ability to do ONE lousy rep. But I did it GTG, over and over, every hour or so, day after day. I also ate like crazy, trying to get some meat back on my ectomorph's body that had been ravaged down even further to a skeleton. Surprisingly, even GTG put some muscle on me. I started looking more normal, and feeling less like my body was a total helpless ruin, humiliatingly so. I started feeling less like an 80 year old man in a 44 year old body.

First came the ability to do one. Then then the ability to do two or three. Then the ability to do two sets of two, then two sets of three, then a set of five. Then two sets of five. And then to increase the weight.

In six months, I went from bedridden to being able to sumo style deadlift 575 pounds of jumpstretch bands in a deadlift. I went from having trouble walking up stairs to do pistols in seven sets of five. I went from having trouble doing one or two one-arm push-ups against the sink to snapping off 8, then 10, then 12 reps of military presses with a 70 kg. kettlebell, and still being fresh enough to do another set or two, and being able to easily handle much more than that for bent-over rows.

I attribute at least 90% of this progress to GTG.

At this point I regularly come to these boards and bore people with endless raves about GTG, and wonder if they really understand what it means for someone who has actually spent many years doing martial arts, and never ever felt strong despite it, to feel somewhat strong. What may be ridiculously ordinary to others is extraordinary for me, all the more so coming off my sickness. I wonder if they think I'm a crank or a shill for saying so often how good GTG has been to me. I wonder if they understand the psychological impact it has on me to see people saying that military pressing the 70 lb. KB 8 or 10 times is pretty good, when my conception of my abilities my entire life was that I could be fast, or extremely well practiced, but never, ever strong. I wonder if they can understand what it feels like when threads get started here about what people can do with the 70 lb'er in a press and I think, okay, that's fine and cool, and am not stunned by it beccause I've already been doing that for a while and am just saving up money so I can finally try to do something a little harder than the 70 lb. bell that I've got. I wonder if they understand the kind of revolution in consciousness and perception of your own abilities that GTG can provide almost like some sort of aferthought, since it's about the easiest exercise protocol imaginable.

After spending great parts of my life beating myself into senseless exhaustion trying to get stronger, figuring endurance and speed were the only things I would ever have, Pavel's ideas about exercise, especially about GTG, have given me such a quick and notable pay-off it seems frankly bizarre. It's almost impossible to conceive of myself as strong, but to at least a certain extent I guess I'm going to have to get my mind around it somehow.

And how strange that after so much trying and drama, it could come so damn easily. Damn, I wish I had known this earlier in my life. GTG is the easiest thing I've ever done, by far. And it's by far the best and quickest way I've ever increased my strength. What the hell a guy like me is doing with anything that could ever be thought of as strength, I don't know. I never counted myself out of the game, but never thought strength would be anything I could feel I had a taste of. I thought it was only the other things for me, at best and if I was lucky and worked myself into a state of exhaustion. I couldn't be more glad to be wrong.

In four days I went from not being able to go down even two inches on a one arm pushup. Four days later I can now do 6 perfect form one-armed pushups. ( I have also increased my pullups by 13 in just one out of those four days). The tips and tricks in this book work better than anything I have ever seen!

This book is fabulous. My whole life i wasn't able to do a single or even half a single of a one arm pushup. 2 months of training with everything that Pavel taught, I can achieve 20 one arm pushups clean. I feel stronger and I have to admit that one arm pushups does the job. This book is the answer if you want to be strong.

Last year, my thyroid went out (I have hypothyrodism) and It caused me to gain 50 pounds in three months. I went through different stages of depression, and gave up. When I realized that was a bad idea, I started to look for a way to become stronger and lose the weight. Thats when I found out about Pavel Tsatsouline and The Naked Warrior. I realized that I could use this weight to my advantage and I have. Yesterday, after only three weeks of using the "Grease The Groove" Technique, I at 230 (Im 5'9") pounds, performed a perfect one armed push-up, on both right and left arms. I am stronger now, than I ever have been, and the techniques in the book are so easy to follow, once you start, you know you'll be able to perform a one armed push-up, and a one legged squat in no time. I recomend this book to anyone and everyone no matter what your current weight, or strength level is. It works, pure and simple, and your only cost is the price of the book, and a little bit of time each day. Thats it! No gym fees, no barbells, no other machines you see on TV. You get strong, and you look strong quick!

Comrade Pavel--
I am almost 54 years old, and have implemented your NW training consistently for the past few months.
I just did my first one-arm push-up (with good form)last week; same for the one-legged squat.
What you said in NW is true and attainable.
Thanks!

The expansion on the tension-generation techniques first introduced in Power To The People and on the power breathing techniques, is alone worth the price of the book. The context of these techinques, the bodyweight drills, also made me look at bodyweight training in a whole new light. It will be obvious to anyone who has seen Pavel's earlier works that these concepts have tremendous carryover to other physical activites such as lifting.

The Naked Warrior is a kick ass book! If you are looking to improve your strength, fitness level, learn some rock solid techniques that will take you to the next level of your game no matter what you do then The Naked Warrior is for you. I got the book because I saw Pavel perform the pistol squat in Muscle Media and wanted to know, "How the hell is that possible?" Practicing Pavel's techniques in the Naked Warrior I learned that it is possible because I can now do them. My balance and leg strength is amazing after learning his secrets. I have improved my leg strength and sprinting power. His breathing and tension techniques I have also trnaslated over to other parts of my workout which has led to improvement. I was most amazed when I got the attention of some pretty big body builders in my gym. Their jaws dropped as I performed weighted one legged squats and they couldn't even perform one. This book isn't about getting massive but about pure strength!

If you are serious about strength training and don't have a Bulgarian coach, this book is the next best thing.