Power to the People Professional_ How to Add 100s of Pounds to Your Squat, Bench,and Deadlift with Advanced Russian Techniques ( PDFDrive )

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unless you have a Bulgarian pharmacy at your disposal. Grind style lifts, on the other hand,
require attention and precision, but not excitation—so you can save all your adrenaline for the
meet. You can keep pulling 65% singles all day long and, if you rest enough between the sets, it
will be the skin on your palms that will give out first.
Why are the Russian IPF champs so strong? You could dismiss their records by saying they have
better drugs, or you could admit that they practice more. Their coach Sheyko is resolute: "He who
trains more—lifts more."
Ukrainian Powerlifting
Secrets, Or What it Took to
Break a Twenty-Three
Year Old World Record
With a superhuman effort Vitaly Papazov finished his last pull. Kaz's untouchable twenty-three
year old IPF total record finally fell. The Ukrainian champion fell to his knees. His coach Leonid
Kotendzha ran out on the platform and broke into tears.
Leonid Kotendzha, Distinguished Coach of the Ukraine, started out in Olympic weightlifting as
an athlete and a coach. He made a Master of Sports total, then got hooked on powerlifting. The
next year, in 1988, he became the first Soviet Master of Sports in PL. Unlike the rest of the early
Soviet PLers who came from WL, he had a good bench. Soon Kotendzha the coach also changed
sports and started training powerlifters.
Not surprisingly, Leonid's training methods have evolved from WL. Or 'suffered out empirically',
to quote the man himself. Along the way he added a few wrinkles borrowed from American
powerlifters. The Ukranian coach and Rob Lawrence would have hit it off. Rob says, "I need
specificity to get strong and variety to keep me sane." Leonid says, "After a long search I have
concluded that it was not necessary to completely change exercises every week. In principle, it is
even possible to design a weekly plan for elite athletes and follow it [indefinitely by just] varying
the load. However, there is one 'if —no one will be able to stand it. YOU GET BORED. Which is
why everything needs to be changed periodically."
So Leonid keeps the exercises the same for the duration of a particular phase of preparation and
changes them for the next phase. One thing never changes: all three powerlifts must be trained