If your family was captured and you were told you needed to put 100 pounds onto your max squat within two months or your family would be executed, would you squat once per week? Something tells me that you'd start squatting every day. Other countries have this mindset. America does not.

– John Broz

Casper.S skrev:Ærlig talt, så syntes jeg at det er skod artikel. Rodet, overfladisk og uden nogen egentlig analyse fra skribenten, eller for den sags skyld en række forslag til praktisk anvendelse for læserne.

Man vil være bedre tjent med bare at læse den originale tråd på BB.com.

Casper.S skrev:Ærlig talt, så syntes jeg at det er skod artikel. Rodet, overfladisk og uden nogen egentlig analyse fra skribenten, eller for den sags skyld en række forslag til praktisk anvendelse for læserne.

Man vil være bedre tjent med bare at læse den originale tråd på BB.com.

Lithium skrev:Vigtige "forbehold"

De laver t maxes ikke all out balls to the wall maxes.

De grinder ikke eller kun ganske lidt på deres løft

De bliver coachet og analyseret i de fleste pas

danielbech skrev:hvad er et t-max om jeg må spørge?

BodyHack skrev:

Casper.S skrev:Ærlig talt, så syntes jeg at det er skod artikel. Rodet, overfladisk og uden nogen egentlig analyse fra skribenten, eller for den sags skyld en række forslag til praktisk anvendelse for læserne.

Man vil være bedre tjent med bare at læse den originale tråd på BB.com.

Jeg synes nu den er fin til at give et lille overblik over hans metoder. Hvis nogen er interesseret i den omtalte tråd, kan den findes her: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=121212081

Troels KI skrev:Er der nogen der har noget indsigt i, hvilke restitutionsformer Broz og hans løftere gør brug af?

There was a video of an Abadjiev Symposium on the internet some years ago in which he went into great depth explaining the scientific foundations of the program he developed.

I was fortunate to have saved the video to my computer.

In short, the primary difference between the methodological approaches of the Soviet and Bulgarian weightlifters, during said era, was that the Soviets used a wide array of means and methods in order to accomodate the morpho-biomechanical diversity of a huge population of lifters (over 1 million registered weightlifters at one time).

In contrast, Abadjiev widdled down the approach, over time, such that a very small exercise selection (ultimately the two competition lifts and the front squat) performed at higher overall intensities (averaged over the course of a year) is what constituted the program. This approach obviously narrows the field of candidates by a great deal- natural selection at its finest. Those who had what it took to tolerate and benefit from this approach were world beaters; and the rest didn't make it because they simply couldn't tolerate the workloads.

One thing that is very important to note, however, regarding training intensity, is that the Soviets trained off of percentages (mostly sub-maximal) of the competition maximums; whereas the Bulgarians trained off of training maximums. So relatively speaking, the Bulgarians appeared to be training heavier; however, in relation to competition bests, the difference between the two schools was much less.

The Bulgarians would work up to intensities that were maximal and near maximal relative to the lifters' readiness for individual sessions. How that training max compared to their competition max is another story. Perhaps some sessions it was far sub-max and others much closer to the true maximum.

Regarding Abadjiev's dismissal of the concept of GPP blocks and so forth, I have great respect for what he accomplished; however, this approach is very exclusionary; as only a select few will prosper from such methods. Additionally, one will notice that is was rare, certainly in comparison to the Soviets, for one of his weightlifters to compete for more than one quadrennial- 'the brightest flame burns the fastest'.

The hole that I found in Abadjiev's theory, regarding how animals in the wild must be ready for 'fight or flight' on a moments notice; thereby not relying upon a warm up or preparatory training blocks to get them ready; and therefore his lifters trained relatively heavy all the time so the stress of competition became routine- is that, with few exceptions such as horse racing, animals are not trained to perform at a level above their operational/survival levels. If they were, such as in horse racing, we would see that the training year must be subdivided and varied into different blocks, intensity ranges, and so forth, and certainly recovery periods including load reductions and etcetera in order that their performance levels would far exceed their non-competitive counterparts who are just surviving.

This is analogous to humans- nearly all competitive athletes recognize the need for restorative/regenerative measures, different preparatory training blocks, tapering, and so on, in order to heighten sport results, peaking, and so on.

Pedestrians who don't do much in the form of physical activity beyond their job requirements, on the other hand, must rely upon what physical readiness they do have in the case of confronting or evading an attacker, saving a baby, running to catch the bus and so on. This population doesn't increase their workload high enough or long enough and, correspondingly, doesn't require much in the form of recovery and load reduction.

Those who are naturally more physically active have a higher tolerance/durability for physical loading; however, there comes a point in which the load must be reduced.

If you want to improve your physical readiness you must increase the loading and when the training load becomes intense enough and long enough, recovery must follow along with load reduction and so forth.

Only a very small population of properly selected athletes are beyond such needs and the sport discipline in question must certainly be specified.

Wild animals don't perform structured deloads because they either eat or get eaten; live or die.

Athletes have a few more options.

There's my long response for the year.

Mikkel leicht skrev:Jeg ville nok også (evt i den periode hvor man tilvænner sig den form for træning) smide en deload ind hver engang i mellem, dog stadig squatte hver dag, og eneste man gør er måske at reducere volumen 20-50%, stadig tungt..

Jeg ville altså også sige, at hvis man har tiden så ville lidt GPP, speciel øvelser og slædearbejde altså være guld værd, specielt hvis man ikke lige er vægtløfter eller hvis man virkelig har brug for at komme i bedre form.. Dette behøver ikke koste ret meget, og man kan evt bruge en 45-60min en morgen 1-3 gange om ugen med sådan en form for træning og så stille og roligt stige med den..

Razz skrev:

Mikkel leicht skrev:Jeg ville nok også (evt i den periode hvor man tilvænner sig den form for træning) smide en deload ind hver engang i mellem, dog stadig squatte hver dag, og eneste man gør er måske at reducere volumen 20-50%, stadig tungt..

Jeg ville altså også sige, at hvis man har tiden så ville lidt GPP, speciel øvelser og slædearbejde altså være guld værd, specielt hvis man ikke lige er vægtløfter eller hvis man virkelig har brug for at komme i bedre form.. Dette behøver ikke koste ret meget, og man kan evt bruge en 45-60min en morgen 1-3 gange om ugen med sådan en form for træning og så stille og roligt stige med den..

Hvis du vil lave slæde, så gør det om aftenen efter du har løftet tungt om morgenen.

started with left rotator tear, which caused compensation of right side- led to right hip / glute issue which prevented squats for months at a time. Now pulls and squats both irritate hip. Since he's not going to the Olympics, he will probably take a much needed break and see how it goes in a year or two.