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(More customer reviews)Zatsiorsky's book is a well presented foundation for learning the concepts behind strength training. The book is primarily directed towards a coach's perspective, but anyone can benefit from it.
The textbook layout is straightforward and includes data gathered from trained athletes. It begins with some basics of strength conditioning. Less knowledgable readers will benefit from these first chapters. The book then progresses to cover training, timing and exercising. Zatsiorsky includes some decent ideas about injury prevention as well.
Overall, it's not an excyclopedia with all the answers. The goal is not to provide generic routines for readers, but to provide the basis for readers to custom design their own routines. I've found this to be a very useful. My thanks to the author.
P.S. Thanks for your recommendation, Louie Simmons!
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This manual examines muscle strength from a biomechanical and physiological perspective, and shows athletes how to use basic scientific principles to improve muscular strength. The book also discusses training theory and the factors which determine muscle strength, and shows how to apply this information by using proven methods based on data gathered from the training logs of more than 1000 leading Eastern European Olympic and world-class athletes. The book contains more than 30 case studies and sample problems which explain these methods.
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