But despite this, he is a dreaded lifter who is always capable of handling very heavy weights in shock. As a boy when he grew up in Bulgaria, he played football and ran sprint and he said that he was always small but strong. When he was 13 he was introduced to weightlifting. At that time, Bulgaria on top of what was international lifting and Stefan often saw weightlifting on TV. He told a friend that he wanted to start practicing weightlifting. Stefan went to a gym where the trainer took care of him and suggested he start with weightlifting. Stefan said, why not and he began to lift and tried his way if he liked weightlifting. The success of the competition / training came very quickly said Stefan.

During the third year he was involved in the junior league. The following year, when Stephen was 17, he was with the squad for Seniors under the guidance of the skilled trainer Abadjiev. Stefan talks about Abadjiev with a lot of respect. He is truly a skilled specialist. He had then already 20 years experience in the field as tränare.Hans methods was good for me, he showed how to be a good weightlifter. He is very tough and his methods were harsh. Now my training is not his because his training was really hard and I can not recover from this workout. I have another system not as tough as, for example Abadjiev used to train us up to about 8 hours / day. But now I work out only 6 hours / day. This is enough for me because my age (29 years) is increasing, so if I would train as hard as before, I would not "survive".

Let's give this tough training perspective so we really understand where Stephen is talking about. A few days before he competed in the World Cup in China in 1995, he ran the following training sessions:
in the morning, he worked up to singles in the power snatch with 140kg. Then he drove up to 180kg 2 reps in strength twists. He finished the morning session with some squats up to 240kg 4 reps. This was his light morning workout for him to warm up before the heavy workout in the afternoon.


Shock 215 kg. Photo Inge Johansson

In the afternoon, he ran the following training: jerk 180kg x 1 reps, 190kg maximum x 1 reps, 200kg x 1 reps but miss, 195kg x 1 reps but miss, 200kg x 1 reps but miss, 180kg x arrested, 180x 1 reps, 195kg x 1 reps but miss, 195kg x 1 reps but miss, 195kg x 1 reps, 200kg x 1 reps but miss, 180kg x 2 reps, 180kg x 1 reps but miss.
Frivändning + Shock: up to 215kg x 1 reps, 230kg x 1 reps , 240kgx a rope but missed the shot, 250kg x 1 reps but no shock.
Squats up / back: 260kgx2 reps, 280kg x arrested, 300kg x 1 reps, 320kg x 1 reps x 2 sets. "This is called" passport "by some."

It said something about his workout how hard it was in general. Now I practice not so. It is much harder, in the morning I go up to the max, and in the afternoon I'm doing it again. How does he think what training is! He trains harder than before but still a bit lighter than what he did. The training I had in China, I made just before the World Cup. It's not that hard! Because here I have more reps than in China. In China, do I just max, but here I run for the most reps. Stefan says he's running some twos and threes on indv, max heavy weights.

He drives deuces usually 180, 185 and sometimes also on 190kg maximum in pressure. It depends on what day I have heavy or not and how I feel. During a session, for example, I run two deuces in the 190kg maximum of 185kg and a third at 180kg and that's all. Another time I go up to 190kg maximum but at 185kg and 175kg Twos three threes and it is the traditional training in pre-prepare notice for a big race. In the case of shock I walk up to 230kg twos. I perform two deuces and then I go down to 220kg or 215kg depending on how I feel and make threes. This is the normal maximum, exercise. How is it with squats estimates?
Usually I train them back to normal max 330kg and then two deuces of 300 kg and sometimes a second at 320kg.

Stefan says that with regard to his heavy training, he also performs power snatch and power turns and moves and a few other exercises, but not snatch and push and squats.
This is different than the classic Abadjiev system, pressure and shock and squats. He does not like so many features, but now do I also draw strength and turns and power jerk, too.
In Force jerk, he wants to go up to a max of 180kg and 220kg in the power-user applications. The tug towing usually 210-220kg and shock features 240-250kg of explosive performance (Stefan B. train with high intensity of pressure moves, relative to the best result in pressure (pp 200 kg class 110 kg). I perform 5 sets x 3 reps, some days I get up to max. 1 reps., just to see how I can perform features technically, I do 280kg of shock features a two or three deuces in sets.
Usually Monday, Wednesday and Friday, the heavy training days in terms of maximum does not in terms of reps. Those days, after coming to the edge - single lift, sometimes he goes down and performs a few deuces.

The other days are for rope except Sundays, when he only has a few exercises.
In China I just drove up, but here I run for the most reps. Stefan could go up to 250kg in shock on Monday and on Tuesday up to 230 or 220kg and sometimes if I'm very tired, I go down to 200 or 210kg (inviduell adaptation). Note that these maxima are carried out two times the heavy days.

Monday morning I go up to the max, but I feel much better in the afternoons and usually I drive up, in the afternoon I do not feel inspired in the morning and early morning is too difficult for me in terms of heavy training.
If I for example go up to 250 kg in the evening, I go up to 240kg in the morning. It is very heavy in the morning to awaken the body-it is the hardest part.
Note that these morning workouts are even heavier during the heavy days than workout the next day. In the case of shock, it is 260kg max, and I have not tried the heavier weight.
in 1988, I was really strong before the Olympics in Korea. I could then 260kg. A few times I wanted to try to 270kg but Abadjiev did not give me permission to do so. He meant that I could get hurt. I have done 260kg about 10 times before the Olympics 1988th It was unlikely that someone else had done this weight.

But not only this exceptional result in shock Stefan has done, he also passed 210kg in the snatch in training and although he was not a huge dish of squats, he managed a second at 330kg. Note that he only weighed 112-113 kg then.
recently when he was preparing for the Olympics in Atlanta, he met 255kg in training
and frivände 260kg Stefan Botev looks very compact out because he is no longer than 180 cm. The most difficult problem in Bulgaria is that the lifters can not get any compensation / salary and for economic reasons may lifters not participate in competitions. I wonder how they cope. Economy, will come only slowly. The reason that I'm in Australia is that I can race in Germany (Bundesliga) and I also compete in Italy.


He thinks it is impossible for a lifter who weighs 110 kg to match the one that weighs 160 kg. This will of course ensue when the new + 105 kg class introduces 1/1-1998. I do not like this class! I'm trying to gain weight but could not.
Prior to Atlanta, I weighed 126 kg, it was really hard! I think you would have a class up to 130-135kg and then the super heavyweight. How can N. Suleymanoglu compete against Kakhiashvilis? I do not understand but no one listens to me! Everyone understands this, but nobody wants to say anything. Never mind that Chermerkin and Ronny Weller was good but I did the best performance in Atlanta. Randell J. Strossen, Ph.D. Translation Stone Dahlgren.Bearbetning Inge Johansson


Comment:
Stefan Botev during 1998-99 had a shoulder injury that kept him away from competitions, but plan to arrive in good shape for the Olympics in Sydney.
I followed him for several workouts World Cup 1995 in China, he trained very hard and was up on top weights almost every day. The system uses Bulgarna aims to maximize its contribution (nerve - muscle system) and that in every practice trying to make new personal record (training weights). It is lined several years of preparatory training to manage a system that Adadjiev has developed through several years of studying both practical and laboratory-wise.
What sets Stefan Botevs training and the training that you currently run in Bulgaria is that he trains pull and knee flexion back. Stefan drove many workouts knee flexion / rear in China and "liked" this exercise but I think he would have had better exchange of driving more knee bending forward (center of gravity is of course far too far behind the vertical.