Topic: Is Abajiev Telling the truth ??????????????

[movmasty]

With reference to the article here
http://weightliftingexchange.com/smf/index.php?page=18
Some questions arose in my mind.

Ekatarina Tanou, was using this method of training and
has incredible results using this method. She was third in the world for
100 meter sprint....
....The other question that I have been asking myself is why such universal
athletes do not exist anymore, why it is so difficult to be good in
different disciplines, such as only 100 meters or jumps. These athletes
who do only one discipline they do it well but it is almost impossible
to be good in a lot of disciplines at the same time.

Abajiev wrote this in the years when Carl Lewis was absolutely dominant in 3 very different disciplines as 100m, long jump and 200metres!
just later Michael Johnson(and before Brisco-Hooks) dominated 200 and 400m
Also all sprinters do a lot of squats, an athletic movement that has little to do with running outside that building generic legs strenght
Furthermore there is on YouTube a clip with Usain Bolt doing power cleans, and dont tell me that Bolt doesnt have peak results like runner!

The fourth question that I have been asking myself is why, when
observing animals, for instance, they don’t have micro and macro cycles.
They don’t have leisure periods. They are all the time active. They
don’t have performance of 80% or 70%. They only have performance
achievements of 100% all of the time. The way that animals prey,
whatever they do, they do it their best and they do it at 100%. This is
the way they survive.

This is not true, After they got the prey Lions have days and days of rest where they play at low intensity among themselves
Cats always rest and sleep, for this are always ready to give the 100%

And why Abajiev doesnt talk about the poverty of bulgarians and the subsequent fact that they did live in the gym and he could train them more than 4-5 times a day?
Many athletes got great results, true, but how many injuried for every world champion?
Would have Abajiev obtained the same results in another country?

So is Abajiev Telling the whole truth, or he is just using the results of the athletes to get ahead??
Repeating some basic biological notions without revealing the true Bulgarian system?

[TheRedReaper]

He has changed the "Bulgarian system" over the years, for a start, and everyone seems to have different ideas about what it actually is. But I don't think he holds anything back except for the steroid use. He has since coached his system in America, and so it is being tried in different countries. Also, athletes all over the world have adapted aspects of his ideas that they liked and did well with it.
 
I have taken some of his ideas, but I do not agree with everything. I have a background in Muay Thai (Thai styled kick boxing) myself, and this has really changed mine own approach to how I started weightlifting. I was already familiar with breaking beyond exhaustion doing 8+ hours a day of intense training. I like to think this gave me an edge and a view others might not have had, Abadjiev included.

[movmasty]

But if there are too many attempts, there is a process called hyperplasia.(*)
Those supporting fibers start to divide, and their quantity grows bigger.
And they also start working on supporting the main fiber, but they
do not have those contracting proteins. So the main fiber can function and perform longer,
because of the supporting fibers, but on its own, its strength does not grow.(*)
But the muscle itself grows bigger. This, we are talking about bodybuilding.

So basically before, when you used to do this training with many repetitions,
our weightlifters looked completely different, they had much bigger muscles.
But Yakoblev[?] says that this actually prevents the main fiber from functioning correctly.
It does not give it strength, even though it looks bigger.

But bodybuilders do over ten reps,
between 10 and 1 reps there is a zone at 2-3 reps where there is not hyperplasia but the same effects that at 1 rep but with less stress.