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.