For Discussion: Broz Powerlifting Template

Found it around on the pendlay forums, and wanted to bring the discussion to this forum to see people's bewildered takes on it:


Discuss.

Not high bar--whatever competition form you use.

Is it?  I mean, 2/3 of the lifts use the posterior chain.  It makes sense to train it hard right?  I once read that you have to PUNISH the back of your body.  back, triceps, hamstrings, etc to be strong.  The front is different. Interesting split/way to think about it. 


Also the DL's are substantially sub maximal.

I think this is more applicable for those who do speed squats and deadlifts as well as bench where you lift as fast as you can with weights you're able to lift within 50-60 percent.  And a special day where you try to do max effort to see if your max on core lift improves.

I tried the linear progression for a month everyday, with squats bench and deadlifts.  It does not work well if one goes over one's 90 percent max, but will work if one does waves.

Like if I do squats today with 100 kg for 5 reps, tomorrow, I should do one rep, then 3 reps the next day, and then 5 again the day after that, rather than aiming to increas automatically to determined my max.  Of course, another way to look at it is if I already know my one rep max, and I'd lift and try to max out just below 90 percent of such each day, which is doable too. :3

While I did gain lots of strength from doing so, I observed that having lessened the days I'm lifting actually allowed me to adapt to the weight.  2 max lifts per week.  And rotating the lifts per week. :3

The better idea if you plan to do this is to take korte's approach.  You choose one core lift and max at it in a certain day and do the others with less volume or weight, and then on the next day, you try to max on another lift. Thus the cycle continues.

Another approach is to base one's recovery on the 72 and 48 hour principle. 72 for lower body and 48 for upper body

Monday squats/deadlifts Hevy
Tuesday Bench light
Wednesday rest
Thursday Bench heavy
Friday Squats/deadlifts Light
Saturday Bench light
Sunday rest

This must be the template Broz's lifter Jacobi Jordan followed similarly or most likely. The major flaw in it is that it doesn't allow one to address their weaknesses optimally. I heard once of a powerlifter who did a Bulgarian system based program and had some success, but nothing major. Vasily Alekseyev (R.I.P.) said he followed he figured out his programming on his own. Yeah of course many Oly lifters have had success with the Bulgarian template, but think about it... All of the top dogs in the Olympic weightlifting team TAKE STEROIDS. So you give the bulgarian template a try, then you stall for a month or longer.

Looks stupid to me, powerlifting isn't Olympic lifting and powerlifters aren't Olympic lifters. Give that program to a powerlifter and they're going to destroy themselves with it. Especially as the powerlifts are much more taxing than Olympic lifts - even the powerlifting squat is harder on the joints, tendons etc. than the Olympic squat. If you're going to squat to max every day (which I think is awesome) don't make it "squat on these days come hell or high water", make it "squat whenever you feel up to it". I know I bitch about sissy bodybuilders a lot, but the opposite of that is the bull-headed powerlifter who'll stick to the program no matter how burnt-out he is or how much his back hurts.

Edited.
NB sets x reps is the convention

I think I got it wrong, it must be 10 sets of 2 - 3 reps.