I was going to say, at 3:08 that second plate is a 20, so that makes the weight count correct. The blues and reds kinda blend in this footage. Very inspiring performance by Zlatan.
If that’s the case it should be 25+20+15+15+10+5+2,5 witch is the same as 45+40+7,5 witch is 92,5kg on each side. Times that by 2 and you got 185kg without the bar. That means the bar weighs 25 right? In that case what type of bar is it?
Correct. If you cannot make it, injured or whatever problem you had. The quote from the rocky movie: "if he dies, he dies" perfectly describes the situation.
A Bulgarian here. I completely agree! And the answer of Abadjiev was: "If you go to war that you want to win, you must accept the fact that you may lose some soldiers."
Imagine a room full of angry Eric Bugenhagens except that they don’t speak English, and the room has a faint buzz of alcohol in the air. That’s the Bulgarians
Sincerely I don't think Eric has the same intensity as Bulgarians, no music no hype, the only thing you hear are weights banging on the floor and the screams of men powered by every drug known to man at the time
The unidentified lifter is Petar Tanev. He came in second place at Worlds in 1998. The next year, he was one of eight Bulgarian weightlifters to be "sold" to Qatar for ~$1M. They were given Arabic names and Qatari passports. His Qatari name is Badr Salem Nayef. He went on to win the 1999 World Championships. Oil-rich Qatar acquires lifter from weightlifter-rich Bulgaria and gets a gold medal out of it. Still one of my favorite weightlifting stories of all time.
My coach is Bulgarian and he said that Zlatan Vanev was doing 5 singles at that weight as instructed by Abadjiev. Also heard another story about how he dislocated his elbow in front of him while he was training and Vanev basically said "Oh, not again".
I'm from Bulgaria and I go to a similar old school gym in the basement of our local sport hall. Its unique experience to see someone put a 250-300 kg on the bar and proceeds to squat or deadlift it. We all gather but no one makes a sound. Its mesmerising.
That's definitely a sanctuary in today's world. I am a powerlifter and I train at commercial gyms because I have no other choice. All you are surrounded by is people on their phones wearing fancy clothes, scrolling on instagram and taking pictures of themselves, just training for looks and using the gym as another step to meet absurd and arbitrary aesthetics criteria imposed by society. Me being basically the only soul who is actually lifting weights, I'm looked at as a freak ...
@@SpaghettiToaster Everything is arbitrary. I'm just talking one arbitrary thing. Defining one thing doesn't necessarily mean everything else has to be the opposite.
Bulgarian and Westside (the actual iterations, not watered down altered versions) are kindred spirits in that they don't really develop lifters, they find outliers.
And even the lifters themselves haven't necessarily always trained the way those "actual iterations" intended. (Evident by many modern interviews on people who have trained bulgarian and at Westside gym) A lot of people in westside were just doing regular volume work instead of speed work when Louie wasn't there for example, and in Bulgaria they even had a term for pussying out on max lifts. "Kruška" or something like that. Max has talked about it before.
@@22448824 weightlifting IMO (and probably many who follow this channel) is certainly more highly regarded than powerlifting (especially geared). But the nature of the training environments and the mindset necessary to thrive in them where most would get chewed up and spit out aren't all that different. Make no mistake, in Westside's heyday, what they were doing was the pinnacle of powerlifting at the time, just hasn't aged well.
I mean that was like him failing and then making the lift after the fourth it’s not really even comparable to maxing out three times a day most days out of the year but Clarence’s is still pretty crazy
Lol What a hidden fanboy Zack is. As a former bulgarian wrestling athlete I can honestly say you cant possibly fathom the philosophy and work ethic of this entire generation. Its not only the training that makes them beasts. Its the environment. Peace
I love how you included traditional/folklore Bulgarian music at the end of the video, Zack, well done for that! P.S. In my hometown athletes would end up working in the mines (if not the factory) in case they failed to become pros or decided they don't want to get hammered for a living.
I thought I have read or had conversations with others that the Bulgarians would train with no music and try to be in as a "calm" state that they could. Since they went heavy so often, also trying to get amped up every session would just deplete them even further.
Yeah, that makes sense. You don't want pumping techno or metal when all you want is to lie down and not hurt. Plus being able to focus your mind without the distraction of music pulling at your brain as it picks up the rhythms and melodies etc.
Bro, this is communism.Metal, techno? You would be locked up by the end of your session. And then you would beg to get back to the Bulgarian weightlifting system. It can always get worse.
I watch this video , the documentary on bulgarian weightlifting, ilya ilyin's preparation for the 2014 worlds in the background while training everyday....your lifts go up 5% automatically due to the sheer alphaness
As a bulgarian I laughed hard at the ending music. Pronunciation of Ivan's final name is Aba-dzi (said like the letter g) - ev. Loved the video, love what you do, looking forward to the next one !
Yes ! Thank you for making this video And greetings from Bulgaria !! If we cannot popularize more our lifting traditions, at least some foreigner on the other side of the world can. Also the other lifters were Gardev, Tanev and Boevsky
One time I maxed out my deadlifts three times in one week. I legit thought I was gonna die by the weekend. Shit made me feel sick for like a week straight.
Yeah I once did 5x5 squats to RPE 9.5-10 on every set, 6 days a week for a month. I never felt more shit and i ended up with nagging tendinitis that took 1.5 years to go away lol. I was retarded
@@Sosaparks Eh it was around 315 for 1, I was in a 1000 calorie deficit at this point for 3 months and had lost 20ish lbs so some of the gained strength was just getting strength back
extra note to make this even more insane: the 5 attempts at 210 or 220 were AFTER his elbow dislocation, so you can imagine how he feels when he missed it behind in the same position he'd injured himself in and abidjiev tells him to try again lmfao
I used to train like this but with powerlifting movements and OHP when I first started. I trained literally 4 times a day and would take heavy singles on all lifts pretty much every day 6 to 7 days a week. I broke myself and could barely lift for 9 months after that. Also, Randy is honestly a really nice guy, and very cultured. I met him in Russia at an armlifitng competition. He knows everything about every strength sport, but yeah Im not sure if he's always aware about what's on the bar. He was there because his company owned all the implements he wasn't lifting. If you ever get a chance to interview him, please do, he has some incredible stories.
Because (despite Zac's last 2 videos- this isn't disagreeing with them) building all around strength can't hurt when participating in a strength sport. Yeah, technique is important, but ultimately Weightlifting IS about putting up the heaviest weight. Building up the antagonist muscles allows for better overall stability. And obviously building the primary movers is going to help. It probably also helps with overall longevity and recovery. Getting a pump is theoretically going to shuttle extra nutrients to the area, which many if not most of the biggest and strongest people in the world believe speeds up recovery.
They make better attlets who last more longer than bulgarians si lu xiaujun 36 years of age and still put serius weights and olimpic champion... thats the answer
This sums up the Bulgarian coaching community to a tee. Remember we are talking about Communist Bulgaria too, the absolute peak of this coaching style. There is more pride and ego and disregard for human weakness than everywhere in the world both from athletes and coaches. The pressure for continuous success and high level performance was immense. As a Bulgarian still gives me chills to watch them lift and perform even to this day.
99% sure the numbers Randy says are correct. The start of the Vanev video is 110kg (Red, blue), and you see him adding the 15 for 140kg and builds from there.
@@-TK- This is the problem when you just assume things. It was extremely obvious that the when Zack was calling it 120, it was a 25kg and a 20kg plate, not two 25kgs. Nice big 20kg staring right at the camera.
Can you go with over the methods of the Bulgarians , Russians , Germans and Chinese ? First countries to come to mind in weightlifting At the height of their dominance past and present
I never knew what bulgarian program really was about. This was a nice learning video. Thanks Zack! I'm no athlete but mainly train for fun. My most stupid insane lifts has been none warmed up, showing up at the gym and doing like 200 or 220 kg deadlift. I also one time squatted 200 kg just because my friend made a PR on it. Of course, being the insane gym companion I took it as a challenge and squat his weight straight away being not warmed up. Stay away from idiot lifts kids!
I've heard it said that Bulgarian volume training is like throwing eggs at the wall, and the ones that don't break are world champions. Can't remember who said that.
As a Bulgarian , it's always surprising to see these, since most people barely, if at all, squat or deadlift correctly, drugs are abused freely and even then most barely look like they put in effort. Must be a good selection of outliers and a more accepting attitude towards drugs.
It's on your blood to weightlift, macedonian (we are the same people I get it) inreresting story; when my brother and I were really into weightlifting we went into our friends' gym (they were greeks and invited us for a squat and deadlift session) it ended up getting serious and we were squatting and deadlifting 250kgs and more, they were absolutely shocked of our raw strength and power, we had no professional training like them, no belts or straps like them and we destroyed these greeks! Lol greetings to my bulgarian brothers
Great vid Zac, would love to see a video on the Chinese training system and their use of bodybuilding style workouts (bicep curls, dumbell rows, upright rows etc) as accessories. Seeing rounded back good mornings by world class Chinese female weightlifters was a big surprise for me.
I think those are called, by some, Jefferson curls, they’re not often used outside of gymnastics. You can get a very strong posterior by doing them, if you have adequate hamstring flexibility (touch the floor with a flat hand, with little warmup) , if you start very light (5lb in your hands) and progress slowly
@@craigowen1798 There's heaps of straight up Chinese training footage out there with no caveats. Pretty hard to miss it really. And the coaches are all quite open about their methods, everyone who's trained there and asked questions has never got cryptic answers or anything.
It's also hard to imagine there was a period where Naim isolated himself and did these workouts to the point of collapsing and needing to be dragged to a bed. He died of liver issues in his 50's (likely the PED use sadly). When the toughest style of workout with 1970's PED avaliability and having the best levers ever seen still put you on the floor at the end of a day, that shows how hard he really went and how grueling this training program can be.
The PED use wasnt the problem. His death was from liver cirosis from the out of control drinking he did after his weightlifting carreer. He had a well known alchohol problem.
@@sakispdsw you think the retirement didn't sit well with him? It's a common problem for retiring athletes to experience issues with drink and drugs. I know one thing is for certain, fucking your liver and kidneys up from PED use that turns your urine brown and then drinking, which damages the liver and kidneys, is a recipe for disaster.
@@sakispdsw Was there any rhabdomyolysis involved? That can also affect liver function, and I image in complex with a drinking issue it would be pretty bad.
I would love a weightlifting fashion video. Get Eoin in on that. Maybe get Mr Hookgrip himself to weigh in. My favourite style is the Adidas tracksuit pants with big billowing white T shirt tucked in. I wish I could find the videos, but there is some 90s Russian footage of lifters training in an old church and they're all wild tracksuited out. Pretty sure it would be on Aleksandr Zakarov's channel but he has literally thousands of videos of Russian training and competition and I've never been able to find this particular video again.
Zlaten Vanev going for 210 (215? 220? the world may never know) 5 times is my favorite training video ever. The silence in the hall broken only by his yells is just so raw and gritty. So cool to see
Once you get into high-level 1RM in Olympic lifting and powerlifting every rep you do in training hurts a lot. Even with good form, and without serious injury. So you either have tons of drive to put up with the pain OR it's better than quitting the sport and living a very rough life.
The IronMind shoutout is wholesome, people are not aware that they were actually the source of training, and competition, footage back in the day. Grainy quality and A+ commentary.
Vanev is such a freak hahah. He has his own gym and is coaching in Ruse. Edit: hmm just checked online and he's the mayor of a small town called Nikolovo now. Not bad.
This is awesome! Would love more Vids like this. I love the IronMind videos but I think the commentary really helps when you're not already familiar with them
The second plate loaded is a blue 20kg not a red 25kg. Randy was right. If you had watched this fahve times as prescribed by Mark Rippetoe you might have noticed that.
Good vid. The Bulgarian system of training reminds of a lot of wrestling in this country. Most high school and college wrestlers are blue-collared working class do it because they don’t have anything better to do or return to their mundane life far different from the more white collar suburban BJJ hobbiest. Hobbiest weightlifters try to adopt the blue collar Bulgarian style but aren’t even close to replicating.
Well done for the video keep going. Tomorrow we will have coffee with Gardev, he was my coach and I will show him the video. He will know the weightlifter's name with the pink wedge
Randy's got the end weight correct. Plates are 25-20-15-15-10-5-2.5-collar so it is 210. However, he is by far the worst at counting weights still.
@@schizoidman9781 The bar is already counted in the 210, do the math
I was going to say, at 3:08 that second plate is a 20, so that makes the weight count correct. The blues and reds kinda blend in this footage. Very inspiring performance by Zlatan.
5:56 "am I taking crazy pills?" YES ;)
If that’s the case it should be 25+20+15+15+10+5+2,5 witch is the same as 45+40+7,5 witch is 92,5kg on each side. Times that by 2 and you got 185kg without the bar. That means the bar weighs 25 right? In that case what type of bar is it?
@@jonathankruger2899 Bar weight 20kg. The collars that he is using are competition locks which weigh 2.5kg/each.
Everybody wanna train Bulgarian, but don't nobody wanna snatch no heavy ass weights.
Nothing to it but to do it!
- Mahatma Gandhi
Lightweight baby.
Yeahhh buddy!!!
I DO IT THO!!!!!
The Bulgarian approach was always "throw enough eggs at a wall and one won't break". They sent that one to the Olympics.
Correct. If you cannot make it, injured or whatever problem you had. The quote from the rocky movie: "if he dies, he dies" perfectly describes the situation.
@@angelstoynov2221 survivorship bias. All we casual lifters will see is the impressive survivors, not the broken bodies behind them.
@anonymous 😂😂😂
One of the rare youtube comments that made me laugh. 10/10
A Bulgarian here. I completely agree! And the answer of Abadjiev was: "If you go to war that you want to win, you must accept the fact that you may lose some soldiers."
Imagine a room full of angry Eric Bugenhagens except that they don’t speak English, and the room has a faint buzz of alcohol in the air. That’s the Bulgarians
that’s a perfect description
Sincerely I don't think Eric has the same intensity as Bulgarians, no music no hype, the only thing you hear are weights banging on the floor and the screams of men powered by every drug known to man at the time
As a bulgarian you are basically correct.
Eric Bulgarihagens
@@hozerberto4886 as a bulgarian can confirm this is still about 80% accurate
The unidentified lifter is Petar Tanev. He came in second place at Worlds in 1998. The next year, he was one of eight Bulgarian weightlifters to be "sold" to Qatar for ~$1M. They were given Arabic names and Qatari passports. His Qatari name is Badr Salem Nayef. He went on to win the 1999 World Championships. Oil-rich Qatar acquires lifter from weightlifter-rich Bulgaria and gets a gold medal out of it. Still one of my favorite weightlifting stories of all time.
way to get dual citizenship lol
Damn 1 mill? I'm game
@@gabrielmondragon7124 the Bulgarian federation got that, not the athlete
Do you know what happened to him? He just disappeared after the 2000 olympics.
Isn’t Peter Tanev lifting 215kg at 9:20?
My coach is Bulgarian and he said that Zlatan Vanev was doing 5 singles at that weight as instructed by Abadjiev. Also heard another story about how he dislocated his elbow in front of him while he was training and Vanev basically said "Oh, not again".
Vanev:getss his elbow dislocated
Gym Bro: YO WTF
Vanev:Oh That? My elbow? That happes everyday
@agapp11able that old communism did lol
I'm from Bulgaria and I go to a similar old school gym in the basement of our local sport hall. Its unique experience to see someone put a 250-300 kg on the bar and proceeds to squat or deadlift it. We all gather but no one makes a sound. Its mesmerising.
That's definitely a sanctuary in today's world. I am a powerlifter and I train at commercial gyms because I have no other choice. All you are surrounded by is people on their phones wearing fancy clothes, scrolling on instagram and taking pictures of themselves, just training for looks and using the gym as another step to meet absurd and arbitrary aesthetics criteria imposed by society. Me being basically the only soul who is actually lifting weights, I'm looked at as a freak ...
@@aaronisaiasmedina8714 amen brother
@@aaronisaiasmedina8714 Because using the gym to train to be able to lift the heaviest possible weights is any less arbitrary of course.
@@SpaghettiToaster Everything is arbitrary. I'm just talking one arbitrary thing. Defining one thing doesn't necessarily mean everything else has to be the opposite.
@@aaronisaiasmedina8714 To use its supposed arbitrariness as an argument for why it sucks does.
Bulgarian and Westside (the actual iterations, not watered down altered versions) are kindred spirits in that they don't really develop lifters, they find outliers.
That explains it perfectly
And even the lifters themselves haven't necessarily always trained the way those "actual iterations" intended. (Evident by many modern interviews on people who have trained bulgarian and at Westside gym)
A lot of people in westside were just doing regular volume work instead of speed work when Louie wasn't there for example, and in Bulgaria they even had a term for pussying out on max lifts. "Kruška" or something like that. Max has talked about it before.
@@David-tm9wr I remember Max talking about that too. Saying they'd load the side that Abadzhiev couldn't see with less weight. Wild.
That's a really good comment and Zack should make it into a video and/or you should too.
@@22448824 weightlifting IMO (and probably many who follow this channel) is certainly more highly regarded than powerlifting (especially geared). But the nature of the training environments and the mindset necessary to thrive in them where most would get chewed up and spit out aren't all that different. Make no mistake, in Westside's heyday, what they were doing was the pinnacle of powerlifting at the time, just hasn't aged well.
"Nobody does this!"
>Clarence attempting the same snatch a dozen times with Juji
I mean that was like him failing and then making the lift after the fourth it’s not really even comparable to maxing out three times a day most days out of the year but Clarence’s is still pretty crazy
There's one video of Clarence attempting a max snatch 12 times or something like that lol
@@MrSocialish theres a video of clarence attempting it 20 times in a row and fails every single time
@@haythamzazai8146 Geez lol yeah maybe that's the one I'm thinking of
snatch more technical thoug more reason to repeat. clean a little more reliant on max power
That elbow dislocation is gonna haunt me
It happened to him three times over his career!
Here I was, minding my own business, and next thing I'm watching a guy's arm bends backwards
I don't even lift to compete, I just like bodybuilding, but this channel is great
bodybuilding gay
@@thoughtgains6959 if chris bumstead is gay, i wanna be gay too
After Disc surgery i just wanna get stronger muscles to support my fckd up spine. Dont care how u call it
@@hungpham4615 listen to him talk. Legit sounds gay.
@eddie money powerlifting is gay too. In fact: the only acceptable way to lift heavy ass weights is to be forklift certified
any excersise/training method where the name starts with an eastern european country is brutal
RUSEV UDRQ RUSEV MACHKA
Ever try the Ukrainian training method?
Lol What a hidden fanboy Zack is. As a former bulgarian wrestling athlete I can honestly say you cant possibly fathom the philosophy and work ethic of this entire generation. Its not only the training that makes them beasts. Its the environment. Peace
You are my hero
This comment made me wanna comment “you should interview ZT” but holy F you already did
@@dadgumwler How about "You should interview ZT again"
@@alextheguy1858 definitely
I love how you included traditional/folklore Bulgarian music at the end of the video, Zack, well done for that!
P.S. In my hometown athletes would end up working in the mines (if not the factory) in case they failed to become pros or decided they don't want to get hammered for a living.
imagine what they could've done with a gallon of milk a day and more hip drive...
Ugh imagine a gallon of milk sloshing around inside you as you attempt world records with brute force
Imagine them also doing fahve by fahve
LOL!
I thought I have read or had conversations with others that the Bulgarians would train with no music and try to be in as a "calm" state that they could. Since they went heavy so often, also trying to get amped up every session would just deplete them even further.
Yeah, that makes sense. You don't want pumping techno or metal when all you want is to lie down and not hurt. Plus being able to focus your mind without the distraction of music pulling at your brain as it picks up the rhythms and melodies etc.
Bro, this is communism.Metal, techno? You would be locked up by the end of your session. And then you would beg to get back to the Bulgarian weightlifting system.
It can always get worse.
I watch this video , the documentary on bulgarian weightlifting, ilya ilyin's preparation for the 2014 worlds in the background while training everyday....your lifts go up 5% automatically due to the sheer alphaness
What was the documentary called?
Ilya big fridays are still my favorite training vids
What was the documentary?
@@JacksonAnimalActivist school of champions on youtub, but i dont know the original name
As a Bulgarian, I enjoyed this
As a bulgarian I laughed hard at the ending music. Pronunciation of Ivan's final name is Aba-dzi (said like the letter g) - ev. Loved the video, love what you do, looking forward to the next one !
Yes ! Thank you for making this video And greetings from Bulgaria !! If we cannot popularize more our lifting traditions, at least some foreigner on the other side of the world can. Also the other lifters were Gardev, Tanev and Boevsky
One time I maxed out my deadlifts three times in one week. I legit thought I was gonna die by the weekend. Shit made me feel sick for like a week straight.
Yeah I once did 5x5 squats to RPE 9.5-10 on every set, 6 days a week for a month. I never felt more shit and i ended up with nagging tendinitis that took 1.5 years to go away lol. I was retarded
@@signs80 Brutal. How was your squat progression?
@@Sosaparks Honestly went up by like 25lbs that month until just walking down a 10 degree incline hurt and I had to stop lol
@@signs80 At least there’s a silver lining, but that tendinitis sounds awful. Mind if I ask what numbers you were hitting for scale?
@@Sosaparks Eh it was around 315 for 1, I was in a 1000 calorie deficit at this point for 3 months and had lost 20ish lbs so some of the gained strength was just getting strength back
extra note to make this even more insane: the 5 attempts at 210 or 220 were AFTER his elbow dislocation, so you can imagine how he feels when he missed it behind in the same position he'd injured himself in and abidjiev tells him to try again lmfao
I used to train like this but with powerlifting movements and OHP when I first started. I trained literally 4 times a day and would take heavy singles on all lifts pretty much every day 6 to 7 days a week. I broke myself and could barely lift for 9 months after that. Also, Randy is honestly a really nice guy, and very cultured. I met him in Russia at an armlifitng competition. He knows everything about every strength sport, but yeah Im not sure if he's always aware about what's on the bar. He was there because his company owned all the implements he wasn't lifting. If you ever get a chance to interview him, please do, he has some incredible stories.
"To defeat the huns" I fucking love you Zack
Could you do this for the Chinese training? There training is so interesting with accessories and maxes and variations and would want to know why
Because (despite Zac's last 2 videos- this isn't disagreeing with them) building all around strength can't hurt when participating in a strength sport. Yeah, technique is important, but ultimately Weightlifting IS about putting up the heaviest weight. Building up the antagonist muscles allows for better overall stability. And obviously building the primary movers is going to help.
It probably also helps with overall longevity and recovery. Getting a pump is theoretically going to shuttle extra nutrients to the area, which many if not most of the biggest and strongest people in the world believe speeds up recovery.
They make better attlets who last more longer than bulgarians si lu xiaujun 36 years of age and still put serius weights and olimpic champion... thats the answer
This sums up the Bulgarian coaching community to a tee.
Remember we are talking about Communist Bulgaria too, the absolute peak of this coaching style.
There is more pride and ego and disregard for human weakness than everywhere in the world both from athletes and coaches.
The pressure for continuous success and high level performance was immense.
As a Bulgarian still gives me chills to watch them lift and perform even to this day.
Bulgaria represent! Awesome video Zack!
99% sure the numbers Randy says are correct. The start of the Vanev video is 110kg (Red, blue), and you see him adding the 15 for 140kg and builds from there.
We have chinese lifters today lifting in worn out off color plates. I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case+ the camera quality.
@@-TK- You can see the plates labelled 25 and 20 at 3:08
Zack is on crazy pills and bad plate math
@@-TK- This is the problem when you just assume things. It was extremely obvious that the when Zack was calling it 120, it was a 25kg and a 20kg plate, not two 25kgs. Nice big 20kg staring right at the camera.
@@-TK- Yeah a lot of Chinese videos have reds that look like yellows and yellows that look like reds because they've all faded to a similar brown
Can you go with over the methods of the Bulgarians , Russians , Germans and Chinese ? First countries to come to mind in weightlifting
At the height of their dominance past and present
I never knew what bulgarian program really was about. This was a nice learning video. Thanks Zack!
I'm no athlete but mainly train for fun. My most stupid insane lifts has been none warmed up, showing up at the gym and doing like 200 or 220 kg deadlift. I also one time squatted 200 kg just because my friend made a PR on it. Of course, being the insane gym companion I took it as a challenge and squat his weight straight away being not warmed up.
Stay away from idiot lifts kids!
I've heard it said that Bulgarian volume training is like throwing eggs at the wall, and the ones that don't break are world champions. Can't remember who said that.
I heard matt wenning say something like that at his periodisation seminars
As a Bulgarian , it's always surprising to see these, since most people barely, if at all, squat or deadlift correctly, drugs are abused freely and even then most barely look like they put in effort. Must be a good selection of outliers and a more accepting attitude towards drugs.
Така си е
Браво мой врат
That's because the style of training has nothing to do with the common gymgoer maybe?
It's on your blood to weightlift, macedonian (we are the same people I get it) inreresting story; when my brother and I were really into weightlifting we went into our friends' gym (they were greeks and invited us for a squat and deadlift session) it ended up getting serious and we were squatting and deadlifting 250kgs and more, they were absolutely shocked of our raw strength and power, we had no professional training like them, no belts or straps like them and we destroyed these greeks! Lol greetings to my bulgarian brothers
@agapp11able yes this is true. Also we Bulgarians and Macedonians are brothers in blood.
I absolutely love how your new bleep sound is Rip screaming
I know, Mark has a nice manly voice.😃
Greetings from Bulgaria Zack, love the enthusiasm, been watching you for the 3 years, keep up the good job!
Great video Zac! You are one of the first who said it is insane... unbelievable! Please, make more videos with bulgarians...
Great vid Zac, would love to see a video on the Chinese training system and their use of bodybuilding style workouts (bicep curls, dumbell rows, upright rows etc) as accessories. Seeing rounded back good mornings by world class Chinese female weightlifters was a big surprise for me.
I think those are called, by some, Jefferson curls, they’re not often used outside of gymnastics. You can get a very strong posterior by doing them, if you have adequate hamstring flexibility (touch the floor with a flat hand, with little warmup) , if you start very light (5lb in your hands) and progress slowly
Problem is China tends to keep WL training under wraps, unless someone's actively marketing something.
@@craigowen1798 there is actually quite a lot of info about it.
@@larryboi2706 yes, but it’s either second hand or Ma Jianping trying to capitalize on it.
@@craigowen1798 There's heaps of straight up Chinese training footage out there with no caveats. Pretty hard to miss it really. And the coaches are all quite open about their methods, everyone who's trained there and asked questions has never got cryptic answers or anything.
It's also hard to imagine there was a period where Naim isolated himself and did these workouts to the point of collapsing and needing to be dragged to a bed. He died of liver issues in his 50's (likely the PED use sadly). When the toughest style of workout with 1970's PED avaliability and having the best levers ever seen still put you on the floor at the end of a day, that shows how hard he really went and how grueling this training program can be.
The PED use wasnt the problem. His death was from liver cirosis from the out of control drinking he did after his weightlifting carreer. He had a well known alchohol problem.
@@sakispdsw you think the retirement didn't sit well with him? It's a common problem for retiring athletes to experience issues with drink and drugs. I know one thing is for certain, fucking your liver and kidneys up from PED use that turns your urine brown and then drinking, which damages the liver and kidneys, is a recipe for disaster.
Naim was the pinnacle of weightlifting. r.i.p. (yea and he drank too much...)
@@sakispdsw Was there any rhabdomyolysis involved? That can also affect liver function, and I image in complex with a drinking issue it would be pretty bad.
You sure your nikoniko waifu doesn't want you to do Bulgarian training?
I love your reaction in this one even you probably have seen it like 10 times already. I like these commentary/reaction type of videos
Greetings from Bulgaria, love ur channel Zack!
Keep up the great work!
Zack needs to beep his curse words with “HIIIIPPP DRIVVE”
"Lets Get down to business" I started signing this right before you said "to defeat the Huns" made me rofl. Thanks for the laugh!
lmfao loved the weightlifting aesthetic ramble
Greetings from Bulgaria🇧🇬
And yes... we are like this..💪
We want more content like this, we really do.
These are my favorite type of videos on this channel.
Have you seen the Stefan botev in training one?! The 2nd workout snatch part is insane 😂😂
The fashion commentary was top notch. More fashion reviews, please! :D
I would love a weightlifting fashion video. Get Eoin in on that. Maybe get Mr Hookgrip himself to weigh in. My favourite style is the Adidas tracksuit pants with big billowing white T shirt tucked in. I wish I could find the videos, but there is some 90s Russian footage of lifters training in an old church and they're all wild tracksuited out. Pretty sure it would be on Aleksandr Zakarov's channel but he has literally thousands of videos of Russian training and competition and I've never been able to find this particular video again.
I love watching Zack geek out about some lifts, this is like the awesome squat video part 2 and i'm all for it
Zlaten Vanev going for 210 (215? 220? the world may never know) 5 times is my favorite training video ever. The silence in the hall broken only by his yells is just so raw and gritty. So cool to see
I tell new lifters to watch school of champions. If they don't come back motivated they aint cut for weightlifting.
More, please. This, and Milko Tokola always gets me fired up to train. Also, great outro music.
Love this kind of vid . I love watching weightlifting coaches respond to high level weightlifters training . U should do Ilya ilyin 2014 training
Please more of this please Zack we need it
Greatest use of this is showing of who is a champion and who will fall short(probably still an elite).
Love the recent content more than previous. Great dialogue and vibes. Much love from Auburn AL.
Spot on with the opinion on the aesthetic and style , love that look
MORE OLD EASTERN BLOC MORE ADIDAS TRACKSUITS
Damn Zacky 😂 He really used Rippetoe's grunt to sensor the swearing.
If only they did 5byfive with hip drive and drank a gallon of milk with hip drive
That's a powerful hidden technique.
I love you talking over this type of stuff and giving your opinions. Very funny weight lift man haha
Love these training-style videos. Keep 'em coming!
This would be the sickest series ever!!!
Yeah holy shot keep making commentaries like this. Your passion for weightlifting just BLEEDS through your commentary.
Really liked this video. Thank you.
Once you get into high-level 1RM in Olympic lifting and powerlifting every rep you do in training hurts a lot. Even with good form, and without serious injury. So you either have tons of drive to put up with the pain OR it's better than quitting the sport and living a very rough life.
Loved this; will not do what you didn’t suggest at the end
Bump music at the end was lit!
This is fucking awesome, we need more videos like this one!
Crazy shit! Thanks for the great commentary and video 👌🏻🔥
That was a great video thanks coach! I would love to see more of these
I have never listened to Zack Telander speak in monologue form for multiple minutes before. This is hilarious and great!
Wow! This is really a savage training! Nice video men!
The IronMind shoutout is wholesome, people are not aware that they were actually the source of training, and competition, footage back in the day. Grainy quality and A+ commentary.
this was incredible! more please!
Vanev is such a freak hahah. He has his own gym and is coaching in Ruse.
Edit: hmm just checked online and he's the mayor of a small town called Nikolovo now. Not bad.
Would love to train there one day
This is awesome! Would love more Vids like this. I love the IronMind videos but I think the commentary really helps when you're not already familiar with them
Great content! Loving the new videos.
Great video Coach Giraffe
Bruhhhh... went and checked out Iron mind... just amazing!
The second plate loaded is a blue 20kg not a red 25kg. Randy was right. If you had watched this fahve times as prescribed by Mark Rippetoe you might have noticed that.
More of this please!!!
This is one of Randy’s greatest filmed sessions. Insane.
The understated Mulan reference had me giggling for the next 5 min
subbed. your content is a gold mine man. keep it up
Zack, been loving all the vids recently! Content has been fantastic!!
Agree 100% with the outfit. I loved the video, Zach. Keep up with this kind of content and fuck it, imma max out today.
That was an awesome video!
I think it is 210! It’s a 25kg and then a 20 kg to start, not 2 25’s
Yeah that could be a blue, it's hard to discern the colour from the video.
@@martinbalaz6601 it's for sure a blue and you can see it if you pause at 3:07 - it says 20 on the outer plate
This was fun and no, wasn't enough. By all means, do more.
Greetings from Bulgaria , you should see us now
Good vid. The Bulgarian system of training reminds of a lot of wrestling in this country. Most high school and college wrestlers are blue-collared working class do it because they don’t have anything better to do or return to their mundane life far different from the more white collar suburban BJJ hobbiest. Hobbiest weightlifters try to adopt the blue collar Bulgarian style but aren’t even close to replicating.
Hi Zack. Love the TF2 Heavy voice line.
This was wild! Thanks
“Let’s get down to businessssss to defeat....the Huns!” 💯
Well done for the video keep going. Tomorrow we will have coffee with Gardev, he was my coach and I will show him the video. He will know the weightlifter's name with the pink wedge
I think that’s Petar Tanev
Yes its Petae Tanev
Good stuff. Keep it coming
I fucking love this man! His will ferrell references are fucking up my world!
Am i taking crazy pills?!?!🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣
Zach needs to make a video on Chuck Vogelpohl. Probably the greatest squatter of all time and the most intense lifter of all time
Stop its squats were disgusting
More! Loved the sika old tapes commentary to