I dare to suggest that many of you do not want to look like modern holders of the Mr. Olympia title, and will prefer the physique of Lazar Angelov. In the mid-2010s, he is one of the most famous fitness models in the world. He receives money from filming for such serious brands as Nike and Mutated Nation, is the co-founder of his sportswear brand 4invictus, gives paid presentations and posing, sells a lot of educational materials and bodybuilding services (training plans, nutrition, personal management, etc. ). You can learn a lot from his example.
Reasons for the popularity of Lazar Angelov
One of the most basic is the presence of a specific style, which he formed before he became famous. This style consists of two important components:
- aesthetic natural body (instead of a pumped-up bodybuilder-chemist)
- brutal macho (lonely male with the permanent stubble of a tired gay man)
Each of these features sells very well in the modern world, and Lazar became the first famous athlete to seamlessly combine these two components.
In the 2000s, the need for aesthetic bodybuilding was in the air. There was a demand for more intelligent and beautiful (aesthetic) bodybuilding because ordinary people did not want to look like Ronnie Coleman and other aliens. By the end of the 2000s, demand became simply enormous and phenomena such as Zyzz began to appear. Lazar Angelov did not follow the path of gaining muscle from traditional bodybuilding. He could show off the kind of aesthetic physique that ordinary men would want. The piquant seasoning was the information that such a physique was achieved naturally (without steroids).
With the beginning of the era of smartphones and Instagram, a new trend emerged. For girls, these were TPs with big lips and tits, and for men, they were brutal Macho Men with a slight touch of blue. Among the most popular male models on Instagram, slight stubble, slightly protruding lips and a tired, careless look have become fashionable.
Video - Lazar Angelov. Motivation
The popularity of Lazar Angelov is a derivative of his style and his sense of the moment. There are a lot of guys who are much smarter, better in form and in “style” than Lazar. However, this guy seized the moment and became the very first. Before 2012, this guy was already famous thanks to social networks, demotivational videos and photo shoots. His popularity grew exponentially after he opened an Instagram account in early 2013. Regular photos and posts did their job. In just a few years, Lazar has become perhaps the most popular fitness model.
Now he is much less interesting than before, because so many other guys have appeared (Panda, Ulises, Costanz, etc.). Proof of this is, for example, his trip to Sochi. The Lazar stand was not particularly popular based on feedback from event visitors.
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Training program[edit | edit code]
Monday:
Chest\Abs
- Bench press 4x8 reps
- Incline Bench Press 4x8
- Incline Bench Press Head Down 4x8
- Pullover 4×12
- Hammer 3×12 press
- Bars with weight (emphasis on the lower chest) 3×12
- Crunches on the floor 4x to failure
- Leg raises 4x to failure
- Side bends with dumbbells 4x to failure
- Side crunches 4x to failure
Read more:
Pectoral muscles - exercises and training features, Press - exercises and training features
Tuesday:
Back/Trapezius
- Barbell row to the stomach 4×8
- Deadlift 4x8
- Wide grip vertical row 4×12
- Pull-ups 4×12
- Traction in a horizontal block 4×12
- Standing shrugs 6×10
- Wrist Curl (forearm) 4x to failure
- Wrist extension 4x to failure
Read more:
Back - exercises and training features, Shoulders - exercises and training features
Wednesday:
Deltas/Press
- Seated overhead press 3×8
- Hammer 4×8 Front Delt Press
- Dumbbell swings 4×10
- Front weight plate raises 4×10
- Raising dumbbells in front of you on an incline bench 4x10
- Rear delt flyes 4×10
- Incline Dumbbell Flyes 4×12
- Incline Crunches 4x to failure
- Hanging leg raises 4x to failure
- Side bends with dumbbells 4x to failure
- Side crunches 4x to failure
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Shoulders - exercises and training features, Abs - exercises and training features
Thursday:
Rest
Friday:
Triceps/Biceps
- Close-grip barbell press 4×8
- Press down on a 4×8 block
- French press 4×10
- Arm extension on a block 4×12
- Standing Barbell Curl 4×8
- Wide grip barbell curl 4x8
- Hammers 4x8 (alternately)
- Concentrated biceps curl 4x12
- Wrist Curl (forearm) 4x to failure
- Wrist extension 4x to failure
Read more:
Triceps - exercises and training features, Biceps - exercises and training features
Saturday:
Legs/abs
- Squat 4x12
- Squat (on bench) 4×12
- Bulgarian squat 4×12
- Seated leg extension 4×16
- Deadlift 4×12
- Lying leg curl 4×16
- Standing calf raises 4×20
- Seated calves 4×20
- Leg press on calves in the 4x20 machine
- Incline Raises 4x to failure
- Side crunches 4x to failure
- T-bar twist 4x to failure
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Legs - exercises and training features, Press - exercises and training features
Resurrection:
Rest
The three most effective exercises[edit | edit code]
- Bench press
- Squats
- Deadlift
Lazar Angelov's regimen and nutrition
A very common question for Lazar is his regime. Specifically, how he trains and how he eats. Let's start with training.
one muscle group once a week scheme, popular among performing athletes . As a rule, a separate day is allocated for each major muscle group. Most often it turns out to be FIVE training days:
- Day 1: chest, abs
- Day 2: back, trapezius, forearms
- Day 3: shoulders, abs
- Day 4: triceps, biceps, forearms
- Day 5: legs, abs.
REST: usually two days of rest during the week (that's 5 training days and two rest days).
EXERCISES: 4-6 per group
REPEATS: 8-12
What about nutrition? Most often, Lazar gives a typical list of 6-7 meals rich in protein and limited in carbohydrates (breast, eggs, rice, etc.).
What is the secret of such a cool form of Lazar Angelov? The main secret is DIET. After this comes genetics and pharmacology. Lazar doesn't get corroded in the off-season. He constantly limits carbohydrates. It can be assumed that in preparation for photo shoots or guest posing, it tightens within 1-2 weeks. What does it mean? Something that completely removes carbohydrates. For example, it can eat only egg whites with amino acids and a little meat with vegetables.
Even just maintaining the muscle gains with a limited diet is very difficult and is unlikely to work all the time. This is usually possible using chemistry. In addition, you need to understand that guys like Lazar make money from their “naturalness”. If we imagine that Lazar Angelov is not natural, then this almost completely devalues all his achievements, because for a chemist his muscle size and dryness are very mediocre.
My advice is not to use anabolic steroids. I achieved my shape without them, so I advise everyone else to try the same. I don't want to get any bigger, so I don't think I'll take them. And if people have the same goals that I have, they should try to achieve them without steroids
Nature of training
Every week the athlete conducts 5 classes.
They consist of training using serious weights. We are talking about deadlifts, bench presses and squats with a barbell. In one approach, the exercise is performed 6-9 times . During the lesson, 4 approaches are used. Separately, exercises are performed for the abdominal muscles.
No workout is complete without running in the fresh air. He uses a sprint race over a distance of up to 400 m. Each time you can see an improvement in results.
Where did Lazar Angelov go?
In 2015, Lazar Angelov was a star in the fitness industry: a bright image, figure, training and motivational videos, magazine covers. Thousands of fitness and bodybuilding fans dreamed of looking like him. After the Angels, he disappeared abruptly and for a long time. At the beginning of 2022, a video was released on Lazar’s official channel on the topic of disappearance from the media space.
At the end of 2014, Lazar Angelov began to have health problems: his tendons and joints began to hurt. Working out in the gym was accompanied by pain. The athlete could not pause for a couple of days; he was obsessed with daily training, hoping that the illness would go away. The pain did not subside and at the beginning of 2015, Lazar stopped working with iron for a couple of weeks. Started physical therapy. A week, two, a month passed, but the pain in the joints did not go away. He couldn’t train his upper body, he began to pump up his legs, but the joints there also began to respond with pain, and his forearms, as Lazar recalls, hurt so much that he couldn’t even use the phone or lift a glass of water. Every everyday movement turned into torment.
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On the advice of doctors, Angelov decided to undergo surgery. Over the course of several months, the athlete underwent four operations and hoped to quickly return to training. Lazar accelerated his recovery, began training as usual, and after six months he was in good shape. As he himself estimates, about 70 percent of his peak.
But I didn’t enjoy the training process as much as before. In addition, the trip to Russia greatly affected him: he heard a lot of negative comments addressed to him.
He decides to increase the intensity and work with the maximum weights for himself. Three months later, joints and ligaments ached throughout my body. After the operation and long recovery, Lazar essentially stepped on the same rake, and the athlete was overcome by depression. Angelov found himself faced with a situation familiar to many athletes.
I've trained all my life and been good at what I do. Now I can’t train like before, but I can’t do anything anymore. What to do next? What is the point in my life anyway? Everyone is training, developing, doing something. What should I do, what, in principle, awaits me when I can no longer look the same as before?
Lazar was ashamed of himself and decided to go into the shadows. Angelov underwent another serious operation on his leg: a cartilage transplant. Problems appeared with the hip joints and in addition he developed coccydynia. He could not lie on his back or sit without a special pillow, and he also could not sleep well because his back or hips constantly hurt. Lazar Angelov lived on painkillers for several months. The former self-confidence disappeared, thoughts of suicide visited. Lazar was in such a psychological state that he could not publicly talk about his problems, and the negative comments became more and more intense.
Working with a psychologist helped him partly: Lazar was able to talk about what he went through and was ready to try something new. He works out a little in the gym.
The main message of Lazar Angelov's interview: if you are faced with depression and some difficult situations, still continue to look for a way out, there probably is one. Get ready to try something new, sometimes in life it's just inevitable.
Bodybuilder's diet
Lazar understands that it is impossible to build a 6-brick abs that is the envy of the whole world without proper nutrition. He eats 7 times, carefully thinking through his diet in advance. This allows you to keep the volume of subcutaneous fat in the foreparts at 10-12%. Menu for one day:
- rolled oats in water + 6 proteins;
- brown rice + chicken breast + salad;
- fruits;
- whey protein + a handful of almonds or cashews;
- izvara (cottage cheese according to a Bulgarian recipe) with banana;
- protein dish (lean fish, red meat) + vegetables.
- protein cocktail.
For muscle growth, Lazar takes BCAA, glutamine, whey protein.
On your personal website https://www.lazarangelov.com and on social media. networks, the athlete talks about the principles of training in the gym, the nuances of nutrition, and motivates people to exercise. He creates programs for his clients based on individual health parameters and taking into account the constitution of the body.
Biography moments
Alexey Lesukov: training, nutrition, achievements and parameters
His homeland is Bulgaria, and was born in 1984 on October 22. He is still grateful to his parents for helping him choose a path in life. The parents' dream was that their son would become a real man and athlete. They wanted him to develop a strong character, and fear and laziness were alien to him. The boy visited different sections and could really choose what he liked best.
In 2006, the young man served in the army. The subject of his hobbies was bodybuilding. But before that, he was one of the best players on the basketball team. His youth was dedicated to this sporting discipline.
His further fate is such that he moves to St. Petersburg for permanent residence. Here he conducts open seminars, writes posts for sports blogs and works as a trainer in the gym. Angelov is a regular participant in Russian championships. He has always occupied a leading position in the ranking of the strongest athletes.
2015 was not the best year in his life. He had to undergo knee surgery. Therefore, I had to hold off on training for now, and make certain adjustments to my usual life. Even in bed after the operation, he was forced to perform various exercises to maintain shape and maintain body weight.
Biblical name of the "killer without a balaclava"
Yes, in general, Lazar is a dangerous type - he looks menacing, Slavic brutality incinerates to the core and envelops him in subconscious fear. But this guy has a biblical name? Or is this a pseudonym? Our sources assure that the name is real. Smacks of Christian fundamentalism and right-wing radicalism.
But still, let’s remember who Lazar is in the Bible (Lazar is the Bulgarian form of the name) - the so-called “brother-in-law of Jesus,” a man who rose from the dead and later became a bishop of the Christian Church (the first, pre-schism). What we want to talk about now is whether such a great name influenced Angelov (note - a wonderful surname, in combination everything really looks like a pseudonym).
Probably yes. Lazar is a man with a broad soul. He devoted his life to bodybuilding. Since 2006, he actively took part in various tournaments, without ever seeing gold. Lazar is also an active opponent of steroid drugs and in every possible way fights against their spread in the world, trying to keep the culture of the athletic body untainted.
Biblical Goliath and Captain Equanimity rolled into one
What can't be taken away from Lazar is his title of having one of the most outstanding abs in the world. Every day millions of people turn to Lazar for advice on training, nutrition, and exercise. To help all fitness fans, Angelov created a website where he works with his team - they share Lazar’s skills with people and advise on various issues.
Internet star
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Photo: Instagram | Lazar Angelov
Despite the impressive athletic results of a bodybuilder and an almost perfect body, what made Lazar Angelova famous was his work as an advertising model. Becoming the face and body of Mutated Nation and Nike products, Lazar promoted his body and, in doing so, built his online career. On the popular social network Instagram, almost 6 million users watch Angelov’s life (data for 2022).
Thanks to his ideal body, stern look, stylish beard and brutality, Lazar Angelov is today the idol of active youth.
Photos of Lazar
- Photo: Instagram | Lazar Angelov
- Photo: Instagram | Lazar Angelov
- Photo: Instagram | Lazar Angelov
- Photo: Instagram | Lazar Angelov
- Photo: Instagram | Lazar Angelov
- Photo: Instagram | Lazar Angelov
Job
Angelov is a successful trainer and fitness model. He poses for magazine covers, but his main income comes from advertising contracts. He promotes a variety of products: clothing, accessories, sports nutrition. The athlete’s pride is contracts with Nike and Mutated Nation.
The bodybuilder’s own website, which has more than 6 million visitors, also requires constant attention. On the website you can admire Lazar’s ideal form: the main place is occupied by advertising and staged photos.
Path to glory
In his youth, Lazar Angelov played perhaps the most developed sport in Bulgaria - basketball. He devoted about 10 years of his life to professional basketball - it was by no means a hobby, but a serious matter for a promising athlete. His talent made itself felt: at the age of 16, Lazar joined the Bulgarian youth basketball team, and then entered the National Basketball League.
However, as you know, Lazar succeeded not as a basketball player, but as a fitness model. Who knows, maybe now he would have delighted basketball fans and fans of the Bulgarian national team with his play if he had not been drafted into the army at the age of 18 - where Angelov’s serious craving for bodybuilding began. Although, as the bodybuilder himself states, after the army he returned to playing basketball and played for professional teams, he had to leave this sport due to chronic problems with the knee joint.
In an interview, Lazar stated that even before the army - when his basketball journey was just beginning - he was already involved in fitness. It was probably the inability to continue his basketball career at a high level that led to a revision of his priorities, and as a result, Angelov chose the field of fitness as his future career. He received a certificate from the National Sports Academy, which allowed him to give one-on-one fitness classes. That is, in addition to improving his own body, the athlete helped others do the same. And already in 2006, he began to participate in various bodybuilding tournaments, where he always took places no lower than third.
Short
Age: 28 Height: 180 cm Weight: 90 kg Original article here Lazar's transformation story: I was a basketball player when I was younger. I trained twice a day playing basketball and worked out in the gym in between. I didn't eat regularly because I didn't have a clear understanding of how to eat properly. I usually just skipped a couple of meals out of fatigue.
Being an ectomorph, I was naturally lean and also did a lot of cardio throughout the day, so it was difficult for me to gain muscle mass. After I stopped playing basketball professionally, I spent a year in the army. I lost my shape and it was very difficult to decide where to move next in life. Since fitness was my second passion after basketball, I decided to throw all my energy into this activity.
