Unbelievable Bulgarians (DVD)

[Jim Ouini]

Probably just a few folks are interested (or maybe nobody ) but I just got this DVD from Ironmind and although I've only watched about 15 minutes it's incredible.

I have no idea who these guys are from 1998 but it opens with some 60kg guy front squatting 200+kg or so. And then follows 'the most feared weightlifters in the world' through a practice session. It's awesome to see these world class guys going through their paces. I can't believe the speed of these guys. Hell even their misses are amazing.

Really gets the juices pumping to go to the gym and knock out some 185lb front squats

 

[Devastation]

cool stuff man

 

[blut wump]

Ironmind is a site to shop at with tunnel vision else you might as well just give them a direct line to your bank account while you slowly buy everything they have.

It can be a satisfying eye-opener to see professional athletes at work if the ego can take the shock of seeing yourself as just another aspiring gym-rat.

Thanks for the heads-up on the DVD.

 

[Jim Ouini]

That is so true. I really should throw that catalog away, too. Having it in the bathroom is doing me no good...

Ironmind has a ton of VHS tapes that sound equally as interesting but I don't trust my VCR not to chew it up, and the Unb. Bulg. DVD really does seem like the one to get based on the description.

And I'm waaay past ego shock after being on this board for awhile lol

 

[blut wump]

I can't find it. This is all I can find on the Ironmind site.
http://www6.mailordercentral.com/ironmind/products.asp?dept=5

I can see some money going the wrong way soon.

 

[Jim Ouini]

Here ya go, it's in the 'Wish you were there' vids

http://www6.mailordercentral.com/ironmind/products.asp?dept=3

I hope your wife is way past rolling her eyes like mine is when she sees yet another brown box at the doorstep.

 

[blut wump]

Thanks. I'm going to put that link aside for tomorrow else I'll be a couple of hundred shorter before I go to bed. I already have the Svend Karlsen DVD but now that Samuelsson has one out too, well...

It's a shame they don't have shorts of the DVDs and videos.

She has horses so she can outdo me with negative cash-flow and obscure deliveries any time she fancies.

 

[super_rice]

two words: bit torrent.

just kidding

 

[BiggT]

That sounds like an awesome video. I understand their training is basic, high volume, frequent, and BRUTAL.

 

[Jim Ouini]

Well from my brief viewing a couple things struck me already. Maybe all the elite's train this way but they showed some guys missing lifts and going back at it 4-5 times. As a recreational lifter I would've been home, showered, eaten dinner and watching TV by then

And another guy was going for a C&J - I think 200+kg or so - and he barely got his clean, I mean it was a grind. And then he gathered himself and somehow got the bar over his head and made the lift. It was unbelievable to me, the mental toughness.

 

[BiggT]

Well from my brief viewing a couple things struck me already. Maybe all the elite's train this way but they showed some guys missing lifts and going back at it 4-5 times. As a recreational lifter I would've been home, showered, eaten dinner and watching TV by then

And another guy was going for a C&J - I think 200+kg or so - and he barely got his clean, I mean it was a grind. And then he gathered himself and somehow got the bar over his head and made the lift. It was unbelievable to me, the mental toughness.

Yeah, with the olympic lifts, the mindset is more like a practice for a sport, just grind and grind and grind and practice makes perfect. With beginners, once a weight is missed they should stop, drop down lighter, and nail a lift to boost confidence......but at a world-class level the confidence is there. The mental toughness is amazing and that is why those guys do so well in international competition......it isn't the training or the drugs, everyone on an olympic platform trains and uses drugs, it is the toughness.....the work ethic.

I am gonna have to order the video now, lol.

 

[coolcolj]

ahh finally on DVD - I asked them a year ago about this, looks like they took my advice

 

[Jim Ouini]

ahh finally on DVD - I asked them a year ago about this, looks like they took my advice

Tell them to put the other ones on DVD, those VHS tapes don't cut it anymore

 

[blut wump]

They're so last millenium.

 

[Jim Ouini]

A couple other things after watching the rest last night. After some big C&J and snatch attempts the night before, the same guys go through a 'light workout' the next morning doing some front/back squatting.

Showed a couple guys about 70kg doing 220kg back squat. One guy paused in the hole before driving it up. Amazing.

The other cool thing is that when a lifter goes for a big attempt, the coach raises his hand and everyone else stops their training and the whole gym goes dead silent. Cool stuff.

My only complaint is that the DVD is a little on the short side, about 1hr 15min.