Milo Of Kroton wrote:
Flo’da boy wrote:
That’s interesting and sort of reminds me of Pyrros Dimas’ (Three Time Olympic weightlifting gold medalist) development, starting with extensive work when younger and moving to a more Bulgarian approach as he aged.
So it’s hard to gauge the Greek system I feel without more knowledge about the early stages of development. Those 90-100% reps may work, but how do you reach that point that you can tax your central nervous system sufficiently for this kind of work to be viable
The different training programs Dimas used were because he was born and lived in Albania until he was 19. While there he trained under Zef Kovaci, doing a variety of different exercises for reps, up to 80% max. After he moved to Greece, where the Bulgarian system was used, he mainly did snatches, clean & jerks, squats, and front squats, usually only in single reps working up to 100% of max nearly every day. Dimas eventually developed a hybrid program of his own that combined the Bulgarian system with various assistance exercises he'd been doing in his youth.
True, though I believe he stated that it was good that he started with that foundation.
I believe the Chinese and Russian lifters both restrict weight and intensity in youth athletes focusing mostly on technique.
I suppose this would be analogous to how it’s better for sprinters to do multiple sports and build a broad base of ability prior to intense training