If your family was captured and you were told you needed to put 100 pounds onto your max squat within two months or your family would be executed, would you squat once per week? Something tells me that you'd start squatting every day. Other countries have this mindset. America does not.
– John Broz
I will employ the training PHILOSOPHY of US weightlifting coach JOHN BROZ, who trained under former Bulgarian super heavyweight weightlifter ANTONIO KRASTEV (heaviest snatch ever in comp at 216kg).
The program calls for SQUATTING 6-7 days a week. You work up to a session 1-rep max (SRM), then perform back-off sets with a weight of about 90% of your SRM. INTUITION rather than set percentages will define the workout. Training lifts will eventually start to go backwards as you enter into the "dark times". When you are so sore and fatigued that you cant even imagine lifting weights. This time is CRUCIAL to training. You MUST persevere and continue to train! Eventually your lifts will begin to improve and you will make progress and PR's while in a totally fatigued state. When you can make progress when feeling like this, this is when you are going somewhere.
My focus is primarily on the squat and deadlift. The bench press is of little concern to me. If I have time at the end of a session I will work on it, otherwise no big deal.
Average Broz's Gymasium
A Few Words with Weightlifting Coach John Broz
Pat Mendez: one of his athletes
Rob Adell: one of his athletes
