BOTEV Explains BULGARIAN Training Under ABADJIEV 

Hello Clarence

rest? you mean dbol?

Rest, test, same thing

If you were Bulgarian what’ would you do Clarence?

@@scottessery100 He'd probably have a couple olympic medals hanging on his neck

As far as I'm aware, that was intended. I heard they wanted to train then so hard that competition is easy.

I assume it's "Maximum for the day" as in heavy lift weight. Guessing that it's likely close to their PR but not PR - otherwise how can they do multiple of the single PR weight.

😂😂

hi who is better in sport ? romania or bulgaria ?

@@FOUDEFOOT85 Romania has representation in more sports and has more Olympic medals. In weightlifting and wrestling Bulgaria is p4p the best.

I like that type of energy

Yessss

@Даниел Димов Засрамих се...

There is a bulgarian documentary made in the 80's..named school of champions..i am sure you will enjoy it..

@Communismatic Няма. Това не се счита като обща култура, тази информация е предназначена за хора, които са борци или хора, които вдигат тежести. В сегашна България населението по-малко и по-малко се интересува в такива спортове, златния век си отмина. Ти също може би не си знаел тази информация(първоначално), трябва ли да те е срам? Ще бъде само истински срам ако човекът, на който говориш, не знае кой е Васил Левски, Христо Ботев и други като Борис трети, Аспарух, Александър Батемберг и храбрите войски, партизани, горяни, войводи, учители и светци, поради които се нарича ме Български народ, и поради който имаме собствена и уникална от другите култури, традиции, език, история и много други.

@Communismatic Горяните са били хора срещу идеите на БКП, Тодор Живков или изцяло тоталитарното управление

@Communismatic Ти кви глупости говориш бе? Тоталитарният режим не е бил харесан от много хора поради колективизацията, национализацията, и други причини, което води до движения срещу Тодор Живков и режимът му са били намразени от т.нар горяни

I play that video sometimes when I’m working out, really good motivator.

The situation in Bulgaria at the time was this “if you really want to achieve, you last mentally. If you are not willing hard enough, you fall out of the process.” Simple as that. It is a bit of a Communist system mentality, where discipline is of utmost importance. Also, the alternative for most of those athletes was to become regular Joes, who work as a welder, construction worker, or in the best case scenario, as a coach for close to nothing. Enduring through the hard training was a possible ticket out of the country and to a financially better life. That is a big incentive for a person who has actually lived during the Communist regime and has realized its limitations.

If you are interested in more from him I did a podcast on his life a few years ago in the Sinclair Countdown series, and wrote about him in The Greatest Weightlifter of All-Time book.

@@WeightliftingHouse listened today. Have you ever considered interviewing randy strollsen about the ironmind vids? He must have some interesting stories.

you can hear it in his voice. The confidence alone is a 300kg squat

@@Lavabug lmao exactly

Strong enough to moonlight with a bit of door security in the evenings and debt collection during the daytime.

Damn, i might actually live to see a 500kg total

More importantly bring back the press

@@jeffriggins9106 the hard thing about the press is to judge it as a strict movement, I don't see it coming back

And he will think to train or not the next day..that's for sure..🤣🤣👍..

I had classmates who were part of the national team in 1997. I used to go see them practice at the training hall.

He said he would have hit 200/260 'not a problem'

It's $4! If you can't afford that, I'll post it on the W|H Podcast soon too

$4 is almost R$ 30 in my crap national currency

yes...

Well ...some time has passed since 1988..i think that the issues with The National Bulgarian team deserves a profound investigation..allegedly the CCCP has something to do with that..there is a bulgarian film made in 2017 named Salto Mortale..in which Angel Guenchev tells the story of his life..i think you can find it here in you tube..

Survivorship bias :')

@@WeightliftingHouse that I can believe. I think Zack agreed it’s about finding those who can not help those 99.99 percent on the bell curve improve

@@WeightliftingHouse 5:10 your right. Natural selection and survival of the fittest not helping each lifter achieve their potential

Everyone was using and is using pills so no disrespect pls

or ya know... all the drug use

@@brianfitzsimmons5703 well why dont you take drugs and go beat all the world records then?

@@brianfitzsimmons5703 Bro honestly if it was from the drug use, then US weightlifting would have been in the sky and space. But they are not. Plus there is no such thing as a proffessional athlete who is not on something. Yes drugs helped them, but damn just imagine what it would be for you to be constantly in a competition mode! Like on a daily basis... Whatever the discipline is...

@@brianfitzsimmons5703 Every professional athlete is on something, that's a simple fact and nothing can change it

It’s called Rakia, lol.

Everyone can criticize, but the results speak louder than critique…

You should listen to Juggernaut Training System's thoughts on the Bulgarian system. Max Aita trained under Abajaev himself. Edit: "Abadjiev" not whatever I wrote

@@joe718gt4 that's a cool talk with Max.

Hard to square the 'good pain' part with the note you end on.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-osGCeOBuJp0.html dead at 24 yrs

He knows exactly what he is saying…

Yeah, but look at that 1% who achieved the impossible!

Bro.. That's not how it works. Snatch and CJs are not parallel squats in gear. 4x CJ and 3x snatch are way above human abilities, it means someone like Shi Zhiyong should CJ 290 kilos and snatch 220. COME ON.

Don't underestimate the human body. If coach Abajiev was still alive, he probably have the same thinking. He was the first and only coach to push triple body weight clean and jerk in training. These applies to the lighter classes. Alexander Varbanov, training in the 75kg, did close to 227.5kg, which was 222.5kg. The 52kg, 56kg, 60kg and 67.5kg did triple body clesn and and jerk in training. You must be a young guy, look at the history. Like I said, if it wasn't for the drug testing, you don't know what these Bulgarians olympic weightliffters could have achieved. That's why in 1988, the Soviets sabatoge the Bulgarians at the Olympics, accusing them of cheating when they do the same. Just admit it the Bulgarians were too superior to the Soviets. The Soviets were being put down in competition, and the Soviets didn't like that. The damn news won't tell you that at that time. Even, if Naim Suleymanoglu was still training under Abajiev in Bulgaria, he would have done more at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Coach Abajiev was so ahead if everybody of his thinking in Olympic weightlifting. He was Superior in Sports Science as a whole. That's why he will be the best coach ever to step on this planet. And Thank you, Sir!

yeah man, those deadlifts... so loud... 🙄

Damn bro same, I hate when guys breath heavy during/after sets, way too loud

Looool… 😅