Tolson"s Rehabilitation Principles

  Explosive Strength Development: The Legacy of Yuri Verkhoshansky Part One: The Man Who Revolutionised Explosive Strength Training The history of strength and conditioning is filled with influential coaches whose methods have shaped the preparation of athletes across the world. Few individuals, however, have fundamentally altered the scientific understanding of athletic performance to the extent achieved by Yuri Verkhoshansky. Often referred to as the father of the Shock Method and one of the pioneers of modern explosive strength training, Verkhoshansky transformed what had once been based largely upon coaching intuition into a discipline rooted firmly in biomechanics, physiology and scientific experimentation. His work continues to influence Olympic programmes, professional sports organisations and university research laboratories more than half a century after many of his original discoveries. Although many coaches know his name because of depth jumps or because they associate h...