My high school strength coach/history teacher was on the US Olympic Team in the 80s. He talked about working out with the Bulgarians and how they trained. I made the stupid comment once of 'well they were on steroids.' He looked at me and said 'We were all on steroids. Those guys just knew how to train better.'

So let me get this straight, this means that Rich Piana's 7 hour arm workout is the Bulgarian method of bodybuilding.

I train bugenhagen, BRO

Instructions unclear: I cycled to Bulgaria

Since i am Bulgarian and i train I must be training Bulgarian :p

But Eric....

If you have a day job, you don't train Bulgarian bro

#1 reason for Bulgarian success: Selecting the best lifters in a nation w/a large population of  lifters: Bulgaria values lifting far more than the US. A strong kid who'd play football here'd be a lifter in Bulgaria.

Please put 'You don't train Bulgarian,  Bro' on a shirt.  I'll buy 2

let me put on my +5 hat of weapon smithing and let's talk about this

I had a Bulgarian coach for a little bit. He had me squat everyday to max. It worked well. I went from Oly lifting to powerlifting and applied the same working up to max everyday with my deadlift. It went well. 2 years of no injuries and no stiffness.

In a scientific basis of strength training course I took in college, we always heard about the Bulgarians, and how they’d either get injured or survive and kick total ass. It’s like you said, it’s their entire life.

people just want an excuse to max out every day without getting called out for ego lifting. “I’m not testing my strength, I’m building strength. It’s called Bulgarian look it up hurrr duurrhh”

3:28 DEM TRAPZ BRAH!

You can’t say i am not training bulgarian because i am bulgarian myself.Of course i am training bulgarian.

Bulgarian Light is maxing out everyday e.g. Eric Bugenhagen

My coach was Sevdalin Marinov, he never trained me under the Bulgarian system because he knew it would break me.

3:55 We all saw it said Bulgarian Women first. Zack's search history revealed.

I do Serbian method; Rakija + Cevapi every day and 2 hours at the gym maxing out all my compound lifts with epic hardbass music in the background.

In that era average weightlifter from USA,Soviet Union was lifting 5 tons per day
The Bulgarian lifted around 55-60 tons per day
We never gonna see someone like the great Ivan Abadzhiev