What is your opinion on high-frequency training?

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To add on to what you said about the Bulgarian Method, these guys were in a controlled environment and monitored 24/7. They didn't have jobs, they didnt have lives, they just lifted under strict supervision and living conditions. This is an unrealistic training program for 99% of people.

Valid addition.

It was also designed to be applied to the clean & jerk, snatch, front & back squats almost exclusively. So spread over 3 sessions per day, its 2 movements per session and total volume was kept pretty low - too low to have any application to a hypertrophy programme.
It would be heavy singles, sometimes doubles for the squats, for daily max effort (think RIR, not RM%) equivalent to a 9.5. Again, specificity is the name of the game here so trying to translate this method to PLing or bodybuilding is a stupid thing to do.

Of course its important to keep in mind that the real bulgarian method and the modified versions you'll find all over the place are not the same thing - far from it in some cases. So OP could be looking at something slightly different to what we're thinking of.
 

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