Quote (Lightman @ Feb 28 2015 12:34am)

from the intro, it really doesn't sound right for anyone. top tier professional athletes, as the intro describes, are the only ones capable of doing the 'true' bulgarian method, and those people already have professional coaches having them doing methods that those coaches believe in, they won't read from a generic book to train their athlete.

and the book already states the true method is only done for the above group at the above conditions, so regular lifters aren't even a factor.

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Now, that’s the simplified definition we’ll be working with. However, for the sake of accuracy, be aware that what I’ll be talking about here is NOT the “true” Bulgarian Method. Unless you are literally a professional athlete, with time to train 2-3 times per day, every day, under the watchful eye of an expert coach who is constantly monitoring your readiness, your strengths, your weaknesses, and making constant adjustments to your training within the overall Bulgarian framework, you are not doing the true Bulgarian Method. The purpose of this guide is to take the overarching principles of the Bulgarian Method and teach you how to implement them in your training for maximal effect within the framework of a “normal” life.

Also, just to get this out of the way early, this is NOT intended for new lift- ers. You could probably pull it off if you were training (in-person) with a good coach who knew how to make the necessary adjustments for you, but if you’re training by yourself or just with some gym buddies, diving straight into the Bulgarian Method without at least a couple of years of serious training with more orthodox programs is not a very wise decision. Unless you’ve already got great technique (and I don’t mean this as recourse to the nebulous but not-too- helpful idea of “perfect form,” but rather technique that allows you to perform a lift hundreds and hundreds of times with minimal injury risk), and unless you understand how to listen to your body (again, with less than a couple of years under the bar, you may think you know how to listen to your body, but odds are pretty good that you’re not as good at it as you think you are), the Bulgarian Method is not for you.