Bulgarian Training

[alex2678]

I bought this thing years ago and it just popped up the other day again. I never really gave it a try but was curious if anyone else did. It has you work up to some really high reps and slowly increasing your workouts to training the whole body seven days a week then dramatically lowering the volume to "overcompensate" as they say. Sounds like a manual on overtraing to me but was just curious if the "theory" ever held true in real life for anyone.

 

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Sounds like it would be a very advanced routine that should not be attempted by most.

 

[Madcow2]

It's likely just a loading/deloading style program that someone called 'Bulgarian' to make is sound cool and market it to BBers. The theory, dual factor theory, is very sound and basic. The implementation of something like this is highly personalized which makes cookie cutter type programs like rolling dice. That said, the underlying idea is well known, basically standard, and highly relied upon outside of BBing and popular public fitness.

http://www.higher-faster-sports.com/PlannedOvertraining.html

You'll see a better explanation on how it's used here: http://forum.mesomorphosis.com/showpost.php?p=48&postcount=3

You won't find many people in Bulgaria doing strength training using high reps so I'd think it's pure BBing crap like most just leveraging a name and at least there's an underlying theory that's correct.