Verkhoshansky: An excellent text on the fundamental aspects of training for sport.
Two chapters in particular make this book worth picking up: Factors raising the working effect of muscular work, and the means of special strength training in athletics.
It also includes awesome sections about:
- The role and place of special strength training in the process of attaining sport mastery
- Structural Regularities of the sportsmans physical preparedness
- Peculiarities of displaying of mans strength in athletics
- The qualitive characteristics of mans strength
- Factors raising the working effect of muscular work
- The means of special strength training in athletics
- Fundamentals of modern strength training methods
- Principle aims in organizing special strength training
