Americanized/US Bulgarian Program

 'Americanized/US' Bulgarian Program
(Originally from Podium Gold Weightlifting, now defunct)

(Posted here, to WeightliftingForums and here, to Reddit - with some discussion)
(This is a word document of the program and this is an image file of the program found online)
(Bonus: Hysen video from some lifting at Podium Gold)

 
Program Cliffs:

• Please review the above discussion threads
• This program was designed by Alex Krychev and Abadjiev
• It is an "Americanized" or "US" style Bulgarian program
• It was supposedly designed for drug-free lifters using a Bulgarian approach
  
• This program was found online. I have not edited the spreadsheet.
  
• 16 Week Program, leading to a competition day
  
• 6 Days per week of lifting
  
• 2 sessions per day, AM and PM 
  
• Thursday session is bar work for both snatch and C&J
• Sessions have a listed estimated total time for each session i.e. 2hrs, 1.5hrs 
• This program is classics only. There is no technique work in this program
• There is plenty of reading material available regarding Bulgarian style programming
• Please become familiar with this prior to considering this regimen of weightlifting
• It should be noted the intensity of this style of programming. Searching the document:
  
• There are 2 instances of lifts at 80%, 15 lifts at 85%
• There are 114 instances of lifts at 90%, 124 lifts at 95%, 167 at 100%
• Lifts that are listed at a given % without sets and reps are designed to be performed for a single rep only, then move to the next exercise
  
• Notably, Week 9 and Week 14 are identical
• Week 15 consists of only afternoon sessions and Week 16 only 3 days
• These two weeks are tapering, leading to a competition on Sunday
• The program theoretically could run 11 total weeks: Week 1-9, Weeks 15 and 16
  
• Possibly utilized during a break between semesters for a university lifter
  

Click here to access the google doc spreadsheet for this program