This book on theoretical research on sports-specific training

The core value of the book "Research on Special Sports Training Theory" has never been to provide a standardized training template, but to build a bridge for all sports practitioners to transform scattered practical experience into a replicable training system. There are no preset standard answers in the book. The debates about different training schools and the adaptation data for different projects are laid out in their original form. What readers have to do is never recite, but choose the content that suits their own scenarios.

The first time I really used this book was when I was leading the sprint team of the university team three years ago. At that time, there was an 18-year-old male member of the team whose 100-meter time was stuck at 10.9 seconds for half a year. I followed my previous experience and arranged for him to run intervals 12 times a week. Every time he practiced until he squatted on the side of the track and vomited, there was no change in his performance. I accidentally turned to the chapter "Special Stress Thresholds for Teenagers" in this book and saw that the glycolytic energy supply tolerance threshold of athletes under 19 years old is about 23% lower than that of adult athletes. Excessive intermittent stimulation will continue to fatigue the nerves, making it impossible to recover excessively. I was still half-convinced at the time. After all, the coach who led the training of the sports team always said that "the results will naturally increase if you measure up." Later, I gritted my teeth and cut his intervals to 8 times a week, and added two special stimulations of hip strength. In less than two months, he ran 10.58 seconds, reaching the first level.

Interestingly, the controversy in the industry has not stopped since this book was first published. The most prominent one is the disagreement about cycle training. The editor who came from the former Soviet training system insisted that the whole year be divided into three major cycles of preparation, competition, and adjustment, and the volume and intensity were strictly staggered. The sample they used was an Olympic weightlifting team that had been followed for 8 years. The average lifespan of athletes using this method was 3.2 years longer than those who took the short, flat and fast route. ； However, several scholars who participated in the compilation and have returned from studying in Europe and the United States also advocated the theory of block training, saying that there are now more than 10 or 20 professional competitions a year, and there is no time for a three-month preparation period. The model of focusing on one quality in 4-6 weeks is more suitable for the current competition system. The attached data of professional tennis players is also real-the seasonal performance fluctuation of athletes who use block training is 17% smaller than that of those who follow the big cycle. The book is not biased, the experimental data and adaptation scenarios of both sides are clearly listed, and even the shortcomings of each are clearly written: large cycles can easily cause athletes to suffer too much in off-season conditions, while section training can easily accumulate chronic strain injuries. Which one you choose depends entirely on the events you lead and the situation of the team members.

I have seen many people misuse this book. In the past two years, the team recruited a freshly graduated physical fitness coach. He read this book for half a month. The bench press limit set for the women's basketball guards was 1.2 times their body weight. After three months of training, several girls developed rotator cuff inflammation. I looked through the book and found that the formula he used was a sample of WNBA post players. Our team's guards are only 1.75 meters, and their skeleton density and muscle distribution are completely different from those of 1.9-meter post players. Of course, there will be problems with applying it mechanically. Oh, by the way, I went to the provincial team for training last year and an old coach complained that most of the endurance training data in the book were before 2018. Nowadays, many new studies on blood oxygenation and electromyography measured by wearable devices have not been included. It is indeed a pity, but it is also normal. The theoretical update of special training is already fast. You can’t ask a book to catch up with the new research results every year, right? To put it bluntly, this book is a bit like a pharmacopoeia in the hands of an old Chinese medicine practitioner. It records effective prescriptions that have been tried hundreds or thousands of times by predecessors. But in terms of how each person uses them, you have to take your own pulse first. You cannot prescribe prescriptions for treating wind-heat to people with colds and colds.

In fact, many people have not noticed that the most valuable content of this book is not at all in the theoretical part of the text. It is the "notes from first-line coaches" in the small print at the end of each chapter. They are all written by national team coaches in various sports. There are no clichés. For example, the annotation in the short track speed skating chapter was written by a former coach of the national team. He said that when he adjusted Wu Dajing's starting posture, he made three changes to the biomechanical model in the book to adapt to his left-handed power-generating habits. In the end, he won the gold medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. There is also an annotation in the diving chapter, saying that when the team changes movements for young players under the age of 14, they never practice the amount of weight required according to the strength standards in the book. For fear of affecting their growth, they always first find a sense of water and slowly build up strength. To be honest, it is much more useful than the previous formula.

I have this book in my bag that I can read all the time, and the cover has been stuck twice. Last time I went to the plateau to lead the team for training, I had a meeting with the coaching staff in the middle of the night and we had a red-faced argument about whether to increase endurance. I took it out and turned to the corresponding page number. It was not to use the book to pressure others, but to see the pitfalls that others have stepped on. There is no need for us to go through it again. After all, as a training person, there is no absolutely correct answer that can help athletes achieve better results and avoid injuries more than anything else.