It’s obvious in many ways that the final product was a labor of love included in the acknowledgements is elitefts’ own James “The Thinker” Smith, who provided translation assistance. The book also contains appendices that both delve into different specifics of training, and also celebrate Verkhoshansky’s achievements. It is also a posthumous work - a mostly complete manuscript forms the core of the text, with gaps filled in by Verkhoshansky’s daughter, Natalia (herself an expert in the field). An update of a prior work, it's his definitive work not just because it is a capstone to a life in sport science, but because it memorializes the man so well. ![]() While the title presumes a text devoted entirely to discussing means of Special Strength Training, (highly sport-specific resistance exercises), Special Strength Training Manual for Coachesis in fact a soup-to-nuts primer on sport-performance theory and a summation of Yuri Verkhoshansky’s achievements in the field.
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