Supertraining
This new edition contains more than 100 pages of never before published material from Dr. Verkhoshansky including:
* 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 defense 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
* 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
This book is a must have for any athlete or coach. Every topic is covered in almost 600 pages.