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At one time he was able to get a privae audience with Bulgarian Head CoachIvan Abadjiev, the man who single-handedly transformed Bulgaria into a world weightlifting power capable of challenging, and often defeating, the mighty Russians. <br>Miller wrote and lectured extensively about the keys to Bulgaria s success, one of which was to keep the multiple daily wokouts shrt, often no more than 45 minutes, to prevent overtraining and to enable the athletes to work out harder. He also wrote xtensively on the Bulgarian lifting style, which was difficult to ma