Head on over to Weightlifting Fix.
Clarence did an interview with his coach Pawel Najdek.
We trained a program that was very similar to Bulgarian training methods. (Szewczyk was a good friend of Abadzijev) training was very difficult and required a complete subordination of all life to weightlifting training. But this is the only way to achieve high performance in this sport.
Wow just looked at just the monday schedule and that seems inhuman already. 3 sessions always working in the 90-95% max range for multiple sets. Surprising anyone can handle that without getting injured
I think that a lot of national weightlifitng teams spent some time doing an intercambio in Bulgaria. only the soviets that did not