Thread: a great read

my old gymnastics coach and old weight lifting coach often talked about this way of training. we did small ammounts of this style training to build strength for gymnastics.

1 rep max a lot of times..

fibers get use to it.

great read..

Ivan Abadjiev + the Bulgarian Weightlifting System - Weightlifting Exchange

Abadjiev was a great coach whose ideas are still very controversial and polarizing. With that said, I tend to agree with many of his ideas, mainly the ones about training specificity. I am a novice, but I have found that the best way to improve at a lift is to do that lift. I have made my best strength results when I cut down on the amount of exercises I performed.

I also agree with him about performing heavy sets. One thing I see often is that people have great form with light weight, but if you load up a near-max weight on the bar, both their confidence and their technique disappears.

Keep in mind that he recommended this for weightlifters.

There is a big difference between training weightlifters and training the general population. First, the recovery from a snatch or a clean and jerk is a lot faster than the recovery from deadlifts, bench press, or squats.

The other thing is that his lifters were professional athletes with a lot support. They built up to lifting this way over many years and when they were training and in competition there was an entire staff dedicated to their recovery.