Max sets of squats, with some volume work depending on your max, for every day except for Sundays off? That looks like a recipe for overtraining to me.
My training partner did this for the oly lifts over Summer break. He did two a days 3 days a week, then just one sessions 3 days a week, each day to a max in snatch, clean and jerk, power snatch, power clean and jerk, or front or oly back squat. The other day was just a technique/recovery session.
After he hit his max for the day, he would work his way back down and do double or triples for 10+ sets, in the classic lifts.
He ended up straining an adductor and his shoulder joints were so swollen it look like somebody implanted baseballs under his skin. He was doing snatches and missed one backwards and told me “I felt like soemthing tore and a bunch of fluid flowed into it”. He then continued to snatch and finish the work out.
that does not look like a good idea to me. the reason no one powerlifts that way is because it doesn’t work. Olympic lifts can be trained different then pretty much all other lifts due to the lack of a lowering phase. olympic lifters can lift often but they spend years getting to that point and its still hell on the joints. Few lifters thrive on the Bulgarian style and unless your a super genetic freak i don’t see how anyone could thrive on a powerlifting bulgrarian style lifting.
Not to mention, hardcore training like that is accompanied with hardcore recovery methods on the regular (sports message, ice baths, sauna/steam room, hot tubs, etc).
I actually did this for 6 weeks, benching, squatting, deadlifting four on-one off for low reps (mostly) and percentages varying from 50-90%. I have it in the over 35 forum if you want to look at it. After about 5 weeks my weights began to drop, and one morning I woke up and pretty much realized I had overdone it. I wanted to see how it would work since I am retired and have all day to recuperate, the end result is that while it starts out really very easy to maintain, your body can only handle heavy sustained training for a short time without rest. I believe I was benching between 385 and 425 pretty much every day, even with low reps the wear on your joints (and your psyche) is pretty awful, coupled with squatting and deadlifting each day, I may recommend against it, for your long term progress anyway.
[quote]boldar wrote:
that does not look like a good idea to me. the reason no one powerlifts that way is because it doesn’t work. Olympic lifts can be trained different then pretty much all other lifts due to the lack of a lowering phase. olympic lifters can lift often but they spend years getting to that point and its still hell on the joints. Few lifters thrive on the Bulgarian style and unless your a super genetic freak i don’t see how anyone could thrive on a powerlifting bulgrarian style lifting.[/quote]
Eric talmant used the Bulgarian method for power lifting with some success
according to average bros you at first go down in weight and then go up… I would suggest squatting like them too with the fast drop. Once my knee gets better i am going to give it a shot.
[quote]Hodges einWindir wrote:
according to average bros you at first go down in weight and then go up… I would suggest squatting like them too with the fast drop. Once my knee gets better i am going to give it a shot.[/quote]
yeah I have already started to see my squat drop, keep me posted when you start up
i know its different for olympic lifting especially when you got greats like Ivan. But im guessing for powerlifting the idea would be something like CP wrote back in 2007 or 2006…
This ideal has been used for almost all speed sports and for olympic lifting. The idea is basically to go balls to walls overtraining then for a week or two just take it easy. Its not as simple as it sound.
Like I said, I dont know how this would go with weight training but ALL speed sports (swimming, track, Olylifting) use this method before big meets.