Here is the 3rd excerpt from the book “The White Prisoner – The Secret Story of Galabin Boevski”. Read Excerpt #1 and Excerpt #2 here. The book is now available: as Amazon kindle ebook for only $4.12 (€3.02). as a physical book (10% discount code J2GURFTX ) The camp in Malaysia was the last stage of the national team’s training for […]
School of Champions: Bulgarian Weightlifting Training Documentary
(Originally posted Feb 10, 2013) Documentary time … Here is a weightlifting classic: “School of Champions: Bulgarian Training Documentary”. Featuring: Max effort lectures from Ivan Abadjiev to a crowd of drained lifters. Update: Now on YouTube
Ivan Abadjiev Returns to Bulgaria – Not! See Update
Meanwhile in Bulgaria … After his 2 year stint in the US Ivan Abadjiev will return to Bulgaria. Not sure if I understand the Google translate gibberish correctly, but I think he will coach together with Ivan Ivanov (current coach). Update: See this comment by Alex Krychev from Podium Gold: I don’t know where Mr. Petrakiev […]
Ivan Abadjiev Snatching at 80
80 years old and still pretty quick. Ivan Abadjiev still snatches. World Record in his age category? Love the Dimas pose at the end.
Ivan Abadjiev Interview About Weightlifting Systems
Here are a couple of clips of Ivan Abadjiev talking about different weightlifting systems and the influence the Bulgarians had on them. Kris Pavlov translates. Abadjiev on American weightlifting Abadjiev talks about the evolution of the Bulgarian system Abadjiev talks about the problem with Bulgarian weightlifting Abadjiev talks about Kazakhstan’s Olympic weightlifting success Abadjiev talks about Iran’s success in […]
Hysen Pulaku Interview
Here is a quick interview with Hysen Pulaku. As you probably know, he trains under coach Ivan Abadjiev at the Podium Gold Weightlifting Club in Danville, CA. Height: 170 cm / 5’7″ Weight Class: 77kg Cumulative Training Duration per Day: minimum 7hrs, 9hrs max Off Day: Sunday (with only 1h training) Sleep: 2-3hrs in the afternoon and 8hrs at night Hates: Squats […]
Ivan Abadjiev Interview Part 2
Watch Part 1 if you missed it. What is the favorite lifter he trained and that he didn’t train? Naim Süleymanoğlu and Tommy Kono
Ivan Abadjiev Interview
Barry from Weightlifting Epiphanies visited the Eleiko Olympic Weightlifting Academy in Danville, California, where he got the chance to interview Ivan Abadjiev and Alexander Krychev. Here is part one of the interview. The goal of opening the Eleiko Olympic Weightlifting Academy was to duplicate what the Bulgarians did after 1968 Mexico Olympics, namely going from zero medals to dominating the 1972 […]
Bulgarian Weightlifting Program Details
After reading the WSJ article about the Bulgarian method yesterday, I remembered that I had read something about it in the “Science and Practice of Strength Training” by Vladimir Zatsiorsky. Here is the excerpt: Bulgarian athletes have several workouts a day with a total duration of up to 6 h (see table 5.1). To the best of our knowledge, […]