In addition, there are extremely beneficial descriptions of different exercises and classifications of exercises within GPP and SPP, as for example, general preparatory, general developmental, specialized preparatory and specialized developmental. Much of this information has never been reported in the US.

Applications of the information presented in this book can be made to most any sport without any major modifications. This book, that has over 160 pages, will be talked about for many years by coaches looking for the latest and most beneficial information on constructing and carrying out the best training programs. It is the first time such information is being made available in the U.S.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Cycles of Sports Form Development and Training Transfer

• Classification of types of exercises
• Constructing cycles of sports form development

Chapter 2 Interrelationships between separate training sessions, their parts and exercises

• Interrelationships between training sessions
• Relationships between parts of separate training sessions Interrelationships between exercises used in each part of a complex training session
• Residual training effects

Chapter 3 Standardization of training loads in separate training sessions, and micro-, meso-, and macro- cycles of sports training.

• Adaptation Interrelationships between pedagogical and biological processes
• Alternation of phases of acquiring, maintaining and losing sports form during periods of its development
• Dynamics of sports results during periods of sports form maintenance
• Dynamics of sports results during periods of rest
• The dynamics of sports results during phases of acquiring sports form
• Dynamics of sports results in separte training sessions in the phase of acquiring sports form
• Increase, stabilization or decrease in the best sports achievement levels during multi-year sports improvement
• Raising the level of personal achievements after ending each consecutive cycle of sports form development
• Dynamics of training transfer in the training used during periods of sports form development
• Standardization of loads over separate sessions, micro-, meso- and macro cycles of sports training

Chapter 4 The body’s defense against adaptation restructuring that serves to increase sports achievements

• Minimization of information
• About inhibition
• The level of coordination of conditioned reflex activity
• Some mechanisms of the defense systems on the brain level

About talent