My forearms are longer than my upper arm. My front rack for cleans suck and also for front squat. If i do front squat i have to do the arms crossed thing. So you have any suggestions or am i just screwed?
I swam competitively throughout high school. I'd say practices was the most grueling exercise I've ever done. I still lap swim every now and then as an adult, but looking back at what I'd do on the daily back then, I don't know how I or any of my teammates did it.
swimming was awful. once you hit middle school in most programs it goes down hill real fast. I went to Bolles, which is one of the premier youth swimming programs in the country, and the swimmers were on an entirely different schedule than the rest of the students. barely saw them. they swam 6-9 then 4-8 in the afternoons starting in middle school. crazy stuff
@@danieldiehl3568 about 5 years ago, at least for middle school. I know they had a 6AM in the morning till 8-9 then afternoon practice from 4-6/7, again for middle school. I've been to the high school some nights (7-8) and they've still been going
I was a wrestler during the winter, but I had tremendous respect for swimmers. The training they did on a daily basis was insane. I'd never tell them that though at the time. Lol!
I loved wrestling practice. I was left exhausted, but everyone was so close and cared for each others success. The coach would have to get on us for having too much fun, and we all hung out at school dances and football games and such.
As a Bulgarian born 1993, training sports since 1st grade till today. And for 12 years of just fitnes. I can tell you that Ivan Abadjiev or as we call him the Pope of the weight lifting was the best coach ever lived on this planet. Doesn’t matter what sport would be, he would make you best athlete in it. The fact that he has made 12 olympic gold medalists, 57 world champions and 64 europian champions shows that this guy was the best in the world ever. But our shitty corrupt governments through the years fucked our sports, Almost all of them. We have genetic freaks in our viliges all over Bulgaria, but they will never reach potential just because we dont have training bases anymore and no money to feed the families just with the sport. All of these world Champions and olympic champions are living their old days with less then 400€ per month even tho they sacrificed their life for our country.
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How sad..as a fan of bulgarian lifters in the 80's i really feel sorrow for the situation of all this huge athletes of these years...i wish the best for all of them...🙏👍🇳🇮🇳🇮
Сънародник съгласен съм с коментара ти ,но фитнеса няма абсолютно нищо общо с вдигането на тежести. Във фитнеса взривна сила , бързина ,отскок и гъвкавост не са ти нужни , а те са много важни качества на един щангист . Не се сърди на поправката която си позволих да направя , но фитнеса няма нищо общо с атлетиката и то тежката
It's Държи (darji) (he is holding), or дръж (draj) for the "Hold" in Bulgarian. The difference is Държит (darjit) for Russian, so the extra t in the end.
18:20 As a former competitive swimmer myself, I agree with your opinion completely. And no kid or teenager will be aware of it unless someone speaks about it, which usually only happens much later in life.
Abadjiev wasn’t the only person following the lifters’ performance and every lift was recorded…
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By far..this is the best technical analyses that i have seen about this bulgarian documentary...👍👍🇳🇮..rest in peace Mikhail Petrov..and Antonio Krastev...🙏🙏
English: Hold! Russian: Держи! Bulgarian: Дръж! Both words come from the same old slavonic word, but in the modern Bulgarian and Russian languages sound a bit different. I'm a big fan of your channel. Greetings from Bulgaria!
@@madworld109 Salimi matched it in 2016. Lasha surpassed it in 2017.
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You are right..the 216 kg in snatch done by the Late Antonio Krastev remained untouched..until Lasha Talakhadze broke it...rest in peace Mr Krastev...🙏🇳🇮🇳🇮
Swimming to me was always very calming because my mind was so noisy that being forced to pay attention to the co-ordination of my arms and legs syncing up with my breathing was meditative, my mind would always wonder and daydream so the staring at tiles wasn't a problem for me, being underwater was also very quiet and peaceful to me but the same repetition of running on the treadmill was torture for me because the machine and chatter and sound of the weights from the gym goers was deafening to me, it'd just amplify the noise in my head making my ears and head hurt.
I mean if you spent everyday eating 5 lb of red meat, and accumulated 12 hours of rest a day, you could potentially recover from working out twice a day
The question is if you’re able to do it twice a day, is it really “maxing out”? Surely the actual max would be far higher if they let the damn CNS recover, hence nobody trains Bulgarian. I dunno legitimately asking.
Most people seem to think that the drugs replace effort in training, but really they are enabling inhuman effort in training. These guys sure don't seem to be taking the "easy" route.
None of this could happen without the drugs. The physicality, the recovery, neural drive. Everything is dependent on what they’re using. It’s not just a finishing touch or one of many ‘vectors’ like some AAS users would like you to believe
@@HkFinn83 that sport was built around ped use. It's not good or bad. It's just the reality. Back in the day they still somehow were able to get away with drug use close to competition. Right now it's a lot harder which is why those numbers from 80s have stood for sooo long.
I swam competitively for some time as a kid, and I see a lot of people saying it was mentally tough. Idk, I enjoyed it, and well I wasn’t amazing, but I came second in YMCA states (it’s not super great but I definitely wasn’t a slacker). Maybe I enjoyed being in the presence of my peers, maybe bc I had more friends on the team than at school…idk lots of reasons why, but I did enjoy practice. Getting out of the pool and feeling drained was awesome to me, I felt like I accomplished something. It got me addicted to sports.
Nothing like that at all he gave a very weak handshake to his fans I know spent over an hour next to him at conference at Montreal Hotel in 1975.He also wasn't gruff with fans knew how to make people laugh playing jokes on them. He wasn't impressive as bulk was in stomach and was absolutely made to Olympic Press compared to his other lifts snatch& c&j.He sure wasn't silent when he cleaned the weight letting out a huge roar from the effort. The premier lifter in 1975 was 110kg Valentin Christov of Bulgaria who attempted to c& j a higher weight at 19-20 years old than Alexeev's world record.Christov wrote a book on his training life in Bulgaria the absolutely insane training that made him handicapped and he ended up in a factory afterwards zilch in money!
7:56 he says hold it hold it hold it and the mentality is a classic “not one step back💪🏽” insane, I believe with this work ethic and proper rest periods you could go even higher, lack of rest will stagnate you for sure thus the depressive faces
The reason of so many controls is that if you are constantly in a competitions/controls, purely psycologically, you will not be as anxious before the real competition as usually, hence you do not feel the preassure as much, hence you perform better. At least my coach, who used to be a trainee of Abadjiev, I've seen him here around the pool. said so, that this is part of the whole process.
I built to a single every day on my Squat for 10 weeks years ago. Went from a 150kg max to 175kg! Worked really well for me but whow mamma was a ready for a deload after :S
@@dansmith9724 As much as to the disgust of the weak UK manlets, there we plenty of job positions. Being an athlete was one. We were the nation with the highest amount and most successful athletes during that era in various sports.
I used a form of rhe Bulgarian Method to make my own "Squat Everyday" program and it had me at 152lbs working up to a 1rm of 405lbs everyday and had amazing results and also a very impactful effect on my muscle memory perfecting my technique and understanding of the lift having to do it so many days where the energy was low and motivation had to be strong... You really figure out the mechanics of your body and how to perfect the technique for optimal performance on the days where you are Greatly fatigued and have to pull all stops to get through
Petrov doing 200.5 kg Clean and Jerk at 67.5 kg bodyweight. Even Liao Hui's best was 198kg at 69kg. Both of these world records are now frozen. haha Even the current 67kg C&J WR (held by Pak Jong-ju) is only at 188kg and the current 73kg WR (held by Shi Zhiyong) is only at 198kg. haha
As a current collegiate swimmer, I can confirm it is some of the most brutal training one can go through. Takes a different breed mentally and physically to stay with it
I am a former martial artist, American football player, Euro Bowl and German Bowl champion and I have accompanied selected people in the Ironman to Kona until the World Cup after my career. When I see this training it immediately reminds me of a mental reflection and concentration exercise to build mental strength and also control his personal weaknesses to survive the agonies of a long distance Ironman competition and the coach must feel it as he can help his athletes out of this dark scenario. I then got into a wheelchair through a difficult back operation that also had a catastrophic course and have been an incomparable cross-sectional patient for 6 years who cannot stand or walk independently. I can tell you that this darkness has the darkness of a black Locha. I train very goal-oriented and very varied, but the processes are still very nice, you can't break this darkness until you notice a small stronger twitch of a muscle strand. Until you get this twitch in a strength range to incorporate a new exercise pass with luck months, years or you do not reach the goal. There is only your training hall and yourself and the devil sits on your shoulder like the ironman and asks you again and again why do you not stop going to shower, that finally makes the pain disappear and you can finally enjoy a beer. Since I know both sides of an active competitive athlete and those of the coach and have lived with heart and soul, I can say that I get my strength because I have prevented my athletes from a mental failure with all the tricks. This has made me acquire a will that I have witnessed all the failures and successes. And I was taught to treat people the way I want to be treated. Nevertheless, you have to leave your comfort zone to lead as a role model and never give up, no matter how brutally dark the room is, no matter how it straightens or damp from the sweat. This training reminds me a lot of my situation and yet you keep going. Thank you for your great reminder of old scool Training without fancy Equipment. ❤❤❤
That Canadian ad read was offensively accurate. All you were missing was a lip full of mulch, a little lippuccino there bud will get you the rocket every time. Ferda
It’s like looking at a black line for hours on end at the bottom of the pool. I got tired of it once I started swimming in college, took a toll on my mental health. I honestly like weightlifting and playing baseball again a whole lot more.
20:12 - No, no, no, excitement was not allowed during communism. Especially in sports. Also, if the weightlifters had it brutal, you should see the gymnastics teams 💀
Hey Zack, loving these videos. I was wondering if its possible to put the sources of the clips in the description of the video. A lot of the time I see these clips and want to watch the full documentary/video the clips are from.
Bulgaria at that time was 3rd world, the desire to provide for their families drove these men to extreme training. Huge desire to fight and push to the limits. This helped and gave them the edge
3:18 i would walk for 5 hours to and 5 hours back uphill both ways ,barefoot in a meter of snow or 50 grades C to train all day long day in ,day out with Abadjev and i would be smiling like a fool!
He yell "дръж я, дръж я..." which literally means "hold she (for the barbell), and in english is "hold it", but the translation is only "hold". In the beggining of video he said another phrase which is "дърпай, дърпай..." which means "pull, pull....". I am bulgarian hobby lifter and when I started I understood that these guys are phenomenal, this is very hard sport and you must have special genes for it to continue with the same efforts shown in the movie.
It seems to me that the Bulgarian system is not a training system. It was a weeder system. Through insane volume at everyone and the few that do not break are genetic freaks who will have astonishing adaptations.
Correction: Rezazadeh never reached Krastev's snatch record. This was only equalled by Behdad Salimi of Iran at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and finally surpassed at the 2017 European Championships by Lasha Talakhadze. So it lasted for 30 years!
I wonder if taking a benzo like valium or something stronger like xanax, the night before a competition to calm down and sleep, negatively effects performance much
I am praoud that i am Bulgarian and we smash everyone elles in the world of weight lifting for years, and this becouse of champion mind set and champion spirit, and ofc a legendary coach IVAN ABADJIEV who wash not only coach but doctor and profesinalis too !!
I would like to use a minimum of 12 days to try to "copy" "Bulgarian".. as much as possible.. (with accessories and bodybuilding added in.). 12 days, 12 hrs/day. With Borscht and GOMAD with double protein milk.
I purchased a workout program called the Bulgarian power burst system in 1990 back of fitness magazine. Followed it to a T. They combined diet and rationing as if raising animals those guys are probably fasting and really only get to eat once a week trying to put muscle on. I got huge strong and ripped that’s what inspires me.
Some guys are yelling drushgo drushgo drushgo, some other guys are yelling drushya drushya drushya, depending on whether they see the bar as masculine or feminine haha, sounds like abadjiev was yelling drushya, which means "hold her" in effect
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Lol have to say I agree so much about swimming. I don't see how people do that for leasure. I can do sprints but the repeated 400s...
Zack please provide the link of this whole documentary
My forearms are longer than my upper arm. My front rack for cleans suck and also for front squat. If i do front squat i have to do the arms crossed thing. So you have any suggestions or am i just screwed?
@@Timberbeast30 look up stretches for ur lats I guess
You should sell a "continue to the maximum" shirt
"Continue to the maximum" is a great quote
was it ivan azberjivev who said it himself?
“Coach, my knee hurts”
Abadjiev: “Fuck your knee, use your other knee.”
@@enzyte9215 yep
I swam competitively throughout high school. I'd say practices was the most grueling exercise I've ever done. I still lap swim every now and then as an adult, but looking back at what I'd do on the daily back then, I don't know how I or any of my teammates did it.
Same, I used to swim 10-12k yards a day in HS plus weight training/dry land in the morning.
Agreed. I do 3000m today and I’m beat
swimming was awful. once you hit middle school in most programs it goes down hill real fast. I went to Bolles, which is one of the premier youth swimming programs in the country, and the swimmers were on an entirely different schedule than the rest of the students. barely saw them. they swam 6-9 then 4-8 in the afternoons starting in middle school. crazy stuff
@@sofianorthrup7805 when was that? I know some guys there and they aren’t doing that much now.
@@danieldiehl3568 about 5 years ago, at least for middle school. I know they had a 6AM in the morning till 8-9 then afternoon practice from 4-6/7, again for middle school. I've been to the high school some nights (7-8) and they've still been going
I was a wrestler during the winter, but I had tremendous respect for swimmers. The training they did on a daily basis was insane. I'd never tell them that though at the time. Lol!
I loved wrestling practice. I was left exhausted, but everyone was so close and cared for each others success. The coach would have to get on us for having too much fun, and we all hung out at school dances and football games and such.
As a Bulgarian born 1993, training sports since 1st grade till today. And for 12 years of just fitnes. I can tell you that Ivan Abadjiev or as we call him the Pope of the weight lifting was the best coach ever lived on this planet. Doesn’t matter what sport would be, he would make you best athlete in it. The fact that he has made 12 olympic gold medalists, 57 world champions and 64 europian champions shows that this guy was the best in the world ever. But our shitty corrupt governments through the years fucked our sports, Almost all of them. We have genetic freaks in our viliges all over Bulgaria, but they will never reach potential just because we dont have training bases anymore and no money to feed the families just with the sport.
All of these world Champions and olympic champions are living their old days with less then 400€ per month even tho they sacrificed their life for our country.
How sad..as a fan of bulgarian lifters in the 80's i really feel sorrow for the situation of all this huge athletes of these years...i wish the best for all of them...🙏👍🇳🇮🇳🇮
Сънародник съгласен съм с коментара ти ,но фитнеса няма абсолютно нищо общо с вдигането на тежести. Във фитнеса взривна сила , бързина ,отскок и гъвкавост не са ти нужни , а те са много важни качества на един щангист . Не се сърди на поправката която си позволих да направя , но фитнеса няма нищо общо с атлетиката и то тежката
@@krasimirmihaylov9551 така е, ама си представи какъв респект имаме хората от фитнеса към него, камоли нашите щангисти
Bulgarian athletes were also notorious for using so much drugs that their piss probably glowed in the dark.
It's Държи (darji) (he is holding), or дръж (draj) for the "Hold" in Bulgarian. The difference is Държит (darjit) for Russian, so the extra t in the end.
In Croatian it would be “drži”
@@LjekarnaDajkovic same basically
18:20 As a former competitive swimmer myself, I agree with your opinion completely. And no kid or teenager will be aware of it unless someone speaks about it, which usually only happens much later in life.
The 80s was when weightlifting was at it's ABSOLUTE PRIME! Those numbers STILL surpass what's out there today, with the exception of Lasha.
It's only Bulgarian if you're going to absolute max 3 times a day.
Bulgarians when Abadzhiev wasn't looking:
*removes weight*
They just deadlift it and drop it real quick behind his back.
Abadjiev wasn’t the only person following the lifters’ performance and every lift was recorded…
By far..this is the best technical analyses that i have seen about this bulgarian documentary...👍👍🇳🇮..rest in peace Mikhail Petrov..and Antonio Krastev...🙏🙏
Sevdalin Marinov was my coach as a junior. Amazing coach and friend, he also would sniff the smelling salts during my comps.
been absolutely loving these vids lately, Zack! keep em coming
You’re correct about training/practice being more difficult than competitions it does translate to many sports
Snatches, cleans and jerks, front squats and most important of them all: a well balanced breakfast.
English: Hold!
Russian: Держи!
Bulgarian: Дръж!
Both words come from the same old slavonic word, but in the modern Bulgarian and Russian languages sound a bit different.
I'm a big fan of your channel. Greetings from Bulgaria!
Believe it or not, Krastev’s 216 wasn’t surpassed until Lasha
I think Rezazedeh just matched it didn't he?
@@madworld109 Rezazadeh's best was 213
@@madworld109 Salimi matched it in 2016. Lasha surpassed it in 2017.
You are right..the 216 kg in snatch done by the Late Antonio Krastev remained untouched..until Lasha Talakhadze broke it...rest in peace Mr Krastev...🙏🇳🇮🇳🇮
Nope, Sypko did 216.5 at the 1990 Friendship Cup. Wasn't recognised by the IWF because it was an Eastern bloc exclusive competition
Swimming to me was always very calming because my mind was so noisy that being forced to pay attention to the co-ordination of my arms and legs syncing up with my breathing was meditative, my mind would always wonder and daydream so the staring at tiles wasn't a problem for me, being underwater was also very quiet and peaceful to me but the same repetition of running on the treadmill was torture for me because the machine and chatter and sound of the weights from the gym goers was deafening to me, it'd just amplify the noise in my head making my ears and head hurt.
Krastev snatched 216kg in competition. Lasha was the first to beat his record with 217kg
I wonder what was his highest clean and jerk
No it was the Iranian Salimi but not by much. 1 or 2 kg. Then Lasha went on to smash it.
@@Epidian that’s not true, Salimi’s best is 216kg, equalling Krastev. Lasha was the first to exceed Krastev with 217kg.
Salimi beat it at an Iranian comp so not official as it needs to be done at a continental championship or higher
@@Epidian if it wasn’t official, then it didn’t break the record did it? 🤷♂️
Ivan Abadzhiev is a giant, a colossus! He made the most productive athletes the has ever seen!
I mean if you spent everyday eating 5 lb of red meat, and accumulated 12 hours of rest a day, you could potentially recover from working out twice a day
Alot of people that do sports work out two times a day, that's not a problem. Maxing out two times a day though, that's another story 🤣😅
😂😂😂😂
The question is if you’re able to do it twice a day, is it really “maxing out”? Surely the actual max would be far higher if they let the damn CNS recover, hence nobody trains Bulgarian. I dunno legitimately asking.
@@fleshmotorcycle9427 Maxing out does not equal setting a new PR. A RPE9/10 for the same lifter could be both 130kg and 150kg for example.
@@fleshmotorcycle9427Maxing out in this case is relative, it's the most they could do in the specific condition
How am I just finding this channel!? I'm 2 videos in. I'm going to binge for a while.
Most people seem to think that the drugs replace effort in training, but really they are enabling inhuman effort in training. These guys sure don't seem to be taking the "easy" route.
Not to take away from them but testosterone also boosts drive and focus not just physical capabilities.
None of this could happen without the drugs. The physicality, the recovery, neural drive. Everything is dependent on what they’re using. It’s not just a finishing touch or one of many ‘vectors’ like some AAS users would like you to believe
@@HkFinn83 that sport was built around ped use. It's not good or bad. It's just the reality.
Back in the day they still somehow were able to get away with drug use close to competition. Right now it's a lot harder which is why those numbers from 80s have stood for sooo long.
Nope. It has been proven that, when you take drugs, you gain strength and lean muscle mass by doing absolutely nothing.
I swam competitively for some time as a kid, and I see a lot of people saying it was mentally tough. Idk, I enjoyed it, and well I wasn’t amazing, but I came second in YMCA states (it’s not super great but I definitely wasn’t a slacker). Maybe I enjoyed being in the presence of my peers, maybe bc I had more friends on the team than at school…idk lots of reasons why, but I did enjoy practice. Getting out of the pool and feeling drained was awesome to me, I felt like I accomplished something. It got me addicted to sports.
Great insight into a great era
4:24 Vasily Alekseyev giving the firmest of handshakes.
Nothing like that at all he gave a very weak handshake to his fans I know spent over an hour next to him at conference at Montreal Hotel in 1975.He also wasn't gruff with fans knew how to make people laugh playing jokes on them.
He wasn't impressive as bulk was in stomach and was absolutely made to Olympic Press compared to his other lifts snatch& c&j.He sure wasn't silent when he cleaned the weight letting out a huge roar from the effort.
The premier lifter in 1975 was 110kg Valentin Christov of Bulgaria who attempted to c& j a higher weight at 19-20 years old than Alexeev's world record.Christov wrote a book on his training life in Bulgaria the absolutely insane training that made him handicapped and he ended up in a factory afterwards zilch in money!
7:56 he says hold it hold it hold it and the mentality is a classic “not one step back💪🏽” insane, I believe with this work ethic and proper rest periods you could go even higher, lack of rest will stagnate you for sure thus the depressive faces
Krastev is the first one to snatch 216 and no one beat it until lasha in 2017
May he rest in peace...
Glad to see you're getting more sponsors.
Loving it is not enough. You gotta love to hate it. This feeling will make you crush yourself to dust if needed be.
The reason of so many controls is that if you are constantly in a competitions/controls, purely psycologically, you will not be as anxious before the real competition as usually, hence you do not feel the preassure as much, hence you perform better. At least my coach, who used to be a trainee of Abadjiev, I've seen him here around the pool. said so, that this is part of the whole process.
I built to a single every day on my Squat for 10 weeks years ago. Went from a 150kg max to 175kg! Worked really well for me but whow mamma was a ready for a deload after :S
Unbelievably eye opening. Max to the max
I’m Bulgarian and I’m enjoying your videos. Btw there were other jobs different than going to the factories :)
THAT FACTORIES 🏭 YOU GO
Digging holes 🕳
Yeah weightlifting
@@dansmith9724 As much as to the disgust of the weak UK manlets, there we plenty of job positions. Being an athlete was one. We were the nation with the highest amount and most successful athletes during that era in various sports.
Само хляб тренировка и фабрика, а? Ахахаха
Tuning in as a Bulgarian. I gave the Bulgarian method a few weeks ago and my numbers have absolutely exploded
Гледай да не се осакатиш.
thanks man this is a veryvery good one!!
Continue to the maximum
I used a form of rhe Bulgarian Method to make my own "Squat Everyday" program and it had me at 152lbs working up to a 1rm of 405lbs everyday and had amazing results and also a very impactful effect on my muscle memory perfecting my technique and understanding of the lift having to do it so many days where the energy was low and motivation had to be strong... You really figure out the mechanics of your body and how to perfect the technique for optimal performance on the days where you are Greatly fatigued and have to pull all stops to get through
Petrov doing 200.5 kg Clean and Jerk at 67.5 kg bodyweight. Even Liao Hui's best was 198kg at 69kg. Both of these world records are now frozen. haha
Even the current 67kg C&J WR (held by Pak Jong-ju) is only at 188kg and the current 73kg WR (held by Shi Zhiyong) is only at 198kg. haha
Angel Guencev did 202.5 @ 67.5 too xD
Topurov, first to do triple body weight c&j.
Hossein never did 217kg his best was 213.5kg less than Krastv, Behdad S unofficially did a 217kg snatch in 2011.
You're goddamn right!
As a current collegiate swimmer, I can confirm it is some of the most brutal training one can go through. Takes a different breed mentally and physically to stay with it
Very self congratulatory one lol keep it up though, hopefully it will be worth it for you
Yeah you have to be mentally ill that's the mentality
Yeah you have to be mentally ill that's the mentality
Continue To The Maximum
I am a former martial artist, American football player, Euro Bowl and German Bowl champion and I have accompanied selected people in the Ironman to Kona until the World Cup after my career. When I see this training it immediately reminds me of a mental reflection and concentration exercise to build mental strength and also control his personal weaknesses to survive the agonies of a long distance Ironman competition and the coach must feel it as he can help his athletes out of this dark scenario.
I then got into a wheelchair through a difficult back operation that also had a catastrophic course and have been an incomparable cross-sectional patient for 6 years who cannot stand or walk independently.
I can tell you that this darkness has the darkness of a black Locha.
I train very goal-oriented and very varied, but the processes are still very nice, you can't break this darkness until you notice a small stronger twitch of a muscle strand. Until you get this twitch in a strength range to incorporate a new exercise pass with luck months, years or you do not reach the goal.
There is only your training hall and yourself and the devil sits on your shoulder like the ironman and asks you again and again why do you not stop going to shower, that finally makes the pain disappear and you can finally enjoy a beer.
Since I know both sides of an active competitive athlete and those of the coach and have lived with heart and soul, I can say that I get my strength because I have prevented my athletes from a mental failure with all the tricks.
This has made me acquire a will that I have witnessed all the failures and successes.
And I was taught to treat people the way I want to be treated.
Nevertheless, you have to leave your comfort zone to lead as a role model and never give up, no matter how brutally dark the room is, no matter how it straightens or damp from the sweat.
This training reminds me a lot of my situation and yet you keep going. Thank you for your great reminder of old scool Training without fancy Equipment. ❤❤❤
continue to maximum
I fast forward through your sponsors faster than my capabilities of getting under the barbell on a high hang squat clean
Great content Zack！！
That Canadian ad read was offensively accurate. All you were missing was a lip full of mulch, a little lippuccino there bud will get you the rocket every time. Ferda
Great videos
great video, zack is a good commentator
It’s like looking at a black line for hours on end at the bottom of the pool. I got tired of it once I started swimming in college, took a toll on my mental health. I honestly like weightlifting and playing baseball again a whole lot more.
This was awesome. Makes me wonder how they would far in today's world.
20:12 - No, no, no, excitement was not allowed during communism. Especially in sports.
Also, if the weightlifters had it brutal, you should see the gymnastics teams 💀
thanks zack
Hey Zack, loving these videos. I was wondering if its possible to put the sources of the clips in the description of the video. A lot of the time I see these clips and want to watch the full documentary/video the clips are from.
They took all the joy out of lifting. They turned training into coal mining.
Very nice and impressive.
That ad tho 😆 good job
Keep up!
They look so sad and miserable. Poor guys. The best of their time, but at what price!
great doc, great comments...thx...crazy sportsmen, train like theirs life depend on it!!!
Lex Fridman would love this shit. The poetry of the harshest imaginable grind.
Bulgaria at that time was 3rd world, the desire to provide for their families drove these men to extreme training. Huge desire to fight and push to the limits. This helped and gave them the edge
Lol, we're still 3rd world, Bulgaria I mean.... But it's way way way better now these days life overall I think.
Sweet
Actually Second world.
The West was first world, the east (communist bloc) second world and the rest third world😮😊
3:18 i would walk for 5 hours to and 5 hours back uphill both ways ,barefoot in a meter of snow or 50 grades C to train all day long day in ,day out with Abadjev and i would be smiling like a fool!
zack did you play hockey? ik you played lacrosse but that canadian slang was too on point, you absolute beautician
Rezzazedeh never snatched 216, as I’m sure others have said. That record stood until about 4-5 years ago
Ilya would have loved that training… only if he’s allowed to have music in the background playing LOL
The amount of Anavar they were taking was insane!
liao hui did 198@69 and that was a WR at the time, ridiculous numbers
The weights these guys lift are insane
Do one about Iakovou and Pyros dimas / GREEK WEIGHTLIFTING
Fun Fact: Krastevs Snatch PR of 216 stood longer than Reza.
2016 Behdad Salimi was the first to break that.
Rest is history.
No, Zach. I told you I won't cooperate with you. Hell you are pushy.
sorry that was a bot
@@zacktelander bro. no need to point that out. 😂
30years
Rezazadeh didn't beat Krastev
Krastev's WR held up until Lasha broke it, because it was 216kg... ( supposedly done 221 in training )
As a Bulgarian, i always feel like Im not training hard enough.
Well I guess its off to the factories for you
11:32 It was another Iranian, Behdad Salimi, who was the first to break Krastev's record in the snatch.
Salimi didn't break it, he matched it by snatching 216 at Rio. Lasha broke this record the following year.
He yell "дръж я, дръж я..." which literally means "hold she (for the barbell), and in english is "hold it", but the translation is only "hold". In the beggining of video he said another phrase which is "дърпай, дърпай..." which means "pull, pull....". I am bulgarian hobby lifter and when I started I understood that these guys are phenomenal, this is very hard sport and you must have special genes for it to continue with the same efforts shown in the movie.
hold her
8:55 Jacek Gutowski was not a Russian, he was Pole.
Very talented guy, unfortunatelly after ending career he became an alkoholic and died.
what he says "Drži" (Drzhi) means hold in many south/east european states
It seems to me that the Bulgarian system is not a training system. It was a weeder system. Through insane volume at everyone and the few that do not break are genetic freaks who will have astonishing adaptations.
Correction: Rezazadeh never reached Krastev's snatch record. This was only equalled by Behdad Salimi of Iran at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and finally surpassed at the 2017 European Championships by Lasha Talakhadze. So it lasted for 30 years!
I wonder if taking a benzo like valium or something stronger like xanax, the night before a competition to calm down and sleep, negatively effects performance much
17:52 thats why eddy hall gave up a potential team england spot at 14
That robotic voice saying, "continue to the maximum", is something I think about a lot.
I am praoud that i am Bulgarian and we smash everyone elles in the world of weight lifting for years, and this becouse of champion mind set and champion spirit, and ofc a legendary coach IVAN ABADJIEV who wash not only coach but doctor and profesinalis too !!
The only training I think can match the Bulgarian's intensities are Ilya's London training sessions.
What kept Ilya going is the music which the Bulgarians didn’t have the luxury of.
I would like to use a minimum of 12 days to try to "copy" "Bulgarian".. as much as possible.. (with accessories and bodybuilding added in.). 12 days, 12 hrs/day. With Borscht and GOMAD with double protein milk.
I purchased a workout program called the Bulgarian power burst system in 1990 back of fitness magazine. Followed it to a T. They combined diet and rationing as if raising animals those guys are probably fasting and really only get to eat once a week trying to put muscle on. I got huge strong and ripped that’s what inspires me.
Trust me they aren’t eating once a week, that’s not how maintaining your bodyweight works
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I liked swimming but never wanted to do the longer events, sprints are fun, doing countless laps at a slow pace gets pretty boring.
I can't see because it's blurred but will somebody please tell me those are bones that are sticking out? It can't be right?
30 minute pre-workout? I'm in LOL!
26:27 In Brazil, we called "cachaça"
Continue to Maximum
I knew you weren’t in Canada bc Fikowski wasn’t in background
was that drink near the end chequ drops ??
'Druzhai / drushai' (spelled in Bulgarian "дръшай / дръжай") is indeed a dialect way to say 'hold' (the official spelling being "дръж").
Its such a shame. The movie school of champions can't be found in native bulgarian....
Some guys are yelling drushgo drushgo drushgo, some other guys are yelling drushya drushya drushya, depending on whether they see the bar as masculine or feminine haha, sounds like abadjiev was yelling drushya, which means "hold her" in effect
12:10 The sparks o.O
26:02 cheque drops created in the 1960's
3:45 no I don't know what you're talking about.