Supertraining 6th expanded version Edition

 Yuri V. Verkhoshansky, Mel C. Siff, Michael Yessis

The shock method * The development of adaptation process during the long term sport activity * The "compensatory adaptation" * Current Adaptive Reserve of the human organism * The strategy to manage the adaptation in the training process * The specificity of protein synthesis in the adaptation process * The structural reconstructions during the adaptation process and the phenomenon of Supercompensation * Heterochronism of adaptive reconstructions * The function efficiency in a high - adapted organism * The optimal regime of adaptation * The phenomenon of immune defence decrease * The general schema of adaptation process during the sport activity * The practical aspects of the Adaptation Theory * The future developments of the use of Adaptation Theory in sport This book is a must have for any athlete or coach. Every topic is covered in almost 600 pages. * Strength and the muscular system * Philosophy of physical training * The muscle complex * Adaptation and the training effect * Sport specific strength training * Factors influencing strength production * The means of special strength training * The methods of special strength training * Organization of training * Strength training methods * Designing sports specific strength programs * Restoration and stress management * Combination of resistance methods * The use of testing * Overtraining * PNF as a training system * Models for structuring the annual training * Preparedness and the training load * Periodisation as a form of organization * Plyometric

Objective 

It is the objective of this book to explore the phenomenon of strength and to apply to physical conditioning the discoveries arising from this quest, with a particular emphasis on the development of special fitness and preparedness far sporting performance at the highest leve!. In meeting this objective, the concepts of work capacity, fitness and preparedness, as well as the different types of strength are examined in detail to provide the necessary framework for research and practical application of all findings. 

It analyses the different types of strength, their roles in human movement and how they may be developed efficiently. In illustrating how scientific research may be applied in training or rehabilitation, it discusses the various means and methods of strength training, ranging from resistance training with weights to impulsive ('plyometric') loading without weights. It identifies which specific types of strength fitness are required by the athlete, the forms in which strength is produced over the range of a given sporting movement and the most appropriate sequences for developing the different types of strength fitness over a prolonged training period. 

Since considerable research reveals that strength is not a single fundamental fitness factor like cardiovascular endurance, as is often ìmplied, this textbook introduces the reader to the exquisite complexity of strength via an understanding of the biomechanics, functional anatomy and physiology of the human movement system. This is not done simply as an intellectual exercìse, but to prevent the reader frotn devising sport specific training programmes based on deficient traditional schedules which may have ignored the nuances of the different types of strength and the specificity oftraining for a given spo1i and individuai. 

This text, although aimed primarily at the exercise scientist, specialist high leve! coach and physical educator, also has direct relevance to tbe sports medicai practitioner or therapist who may be involved with rehabilitating athletes whose retum to top leve! competiti on depends on restoration of the necessary type of strength fitness.