XL Athlete is excited to offer its clients the Soviet Sports Review. The journals are comprised of translated articles from Soviet coaches' journals and also contain original articles from Dr. Michael Yessis and Dr. Mel Siff.
The 1993 edition includes the following articles:
Understanding Plyometrics
Synchronized Sports Nutrition
Ways of Improving Reliability Of Competitive Activity in the Triple Jump
Are the Fit Healthier?
Selecting Swimmers Capable of Achieving World-Class Performances
Methods, Means or What?
The Use of Certain Pharmaceuticals to Accelerate the Recovery Process in Young Athletes
Endocrine Regulation
Breath-Holding as a Means of Raising the body's Hypoxic Stability
Lifting Safety
An Irregular Heart May Be Healthier
Preventing Myocardial Dystrophy
Myths of Antagonistic Muscle Action
Steroids and Injury
Know the Muscles and Exercises
The Effect of Head Position on Strength
Exercise and the Soft Tissues
Angled Box Side Jumps
The Triphasic Nature of Muscle Action
Improving the Overall Readiness of Highly Skilled Soccer Players During the Competitive Period
TRAINING TIP: Burn Fat for Energy
BOOK REVIEW: Intensive Participation in Children's Sports
EXERCISE OF THE MONTH: The Squat
SKILL LEARNING: Concentration
KIDS KORNER: The Concept of Having Fun
OBSTACLES TO EFFECTIVE LEARNING: Lack of Variety Error
INNOVATIVE EXERCISE: Shoulder Joint Lateral Rotation and Horizontal Abduction
QUESTIONS FROM THE READERS
Back Facts and Figures
Breathing in Weightlifting
Strength and Connective Tissue
The Specificity of Adaptive Protein Synthesis During Endurance Exercises Isokinetic and Other Training Means
Selecting Swimmers Capable of Achieving World-Class Performances
APRE (Autoregulating Progressive Resistance Exercise)
Additional Movement
Adaptation
What is Fatigue?
Strength and Gender
The Specificity of Movement Patterns
Skinfold Champions
Some Facts on Warming Up
Does Greater Strength = Greater Speed?
Breath-Holding as an Element in Maximal Muscle Strength
BOOK REVIEW: Human Muscle Power
OBSTACLES TO EFFECTIVE LEARNING: Improper Technique
SKILL LEARNING: Train Your Eyes to See
TRAINING TIPS: Jumps Are Not Plyometrics
INNOVATIVE EXERCISE: Hip Abduction
EXERCISE OF THE MONTH: Biceps Curl
INJURY PROOFING: Preventing Knee Injuries
Adaptation of Skeletal Muscles to Increased Physical Loads Through Laseropuncture
The Clean and Jerk
Muscle Elasticity in Athletes with Elbow Injuries
Strength-Endurance
Weights for the Elderly
Cells in the Cheeks Can Determine Your Physical Loads
The Personal Trainer
Method of Developing Strength in Young Gymnasts in the Beginning and Specialized States of Training
Vitamin Benefits and Dangers
Ibuprofen for pain?
Physical Qualities and Their Development
Using Genetics to Select Athletes
Prepare Yourself for Training
Science and Sports Inventiveness in Preventing and Treating Injuries
High Top Shoes
Training for Jumping Events
Change in Physical Work-Capacity in Soccer Players When There Are Short Intervals of Time Between Matches
What Foods do Young Weightlifters Need?
SKILL LEARNING: Inside Out or Outside In?
BOOK REVIEW: Sports Rules Encyclopedia
TRAINING TIP: The Role of Plyometrics
INNOVATIVE EXERCISE: Straight Leg Pulldowns
TRAINING PRINCIPLES: Make Your Athletes Independent
Chinese Secrets
Integrating Plyometrics With Strength Training
Plyometrics in Warm up, How Fast Should You Run?
Supination Pronation (With the Strength Bar)
Soft Tissue Biomechanics and Flexibility
Aspects of the Bulgarian System
Heart Rate and Cardiovascular Fitness
Training for Jumping Events (Part II)
Inflexibility or Spurious Muscle Tension?
NUTRITION: Do You Need Supplements?
SKILL LEARNING: Music in Your Workouts
TRAINING PRINCIPLE: The Workout Structure
TRAINING TIP: No Twisting with Flexion
QUESTIONS FROM THE READERS
Rules of Exercise?
How the Fastest Run
Mental Self-Conditioning
Sports in Higher Education
Are You Ready to Play?
Successful Personal Trainer
Injury Proofing for Athletes
How To Measure Exercise Loads
The Speed Principle in Weight Training
Controlled Breathing
Neural Changes with Training
What Is Hyperextension?
Non-Impact Plyometrics
Butter or Margarine?
Restoration With Nutrition (Weightlifting)
Auditory Control in Track and Field
How Strenuous is that Exercise?
The Bases of Running Training
Training for Jumping Events
Potentially Dangerous Medicine Ball Exercises
Generating Power in Execution of Sports Skills
A New Way to Diagnose and Treat Musculo-Skeletal Injuries
Left-Handed Food
BOOK REVIEW: The Athletic Female
INNOVATNE EXERCISE: Don't Stop at Level in Lateral Arm Raises
BOOK REVIEW: Swimming
EXERCISE OF THE MONTH: Good Morning
OLYMPIC EXERCISES: The Power Clean
TRAINING TIP: Contract the Back
Not the Abdominals
PLYOMETRICS: From the "Experts"
TECHNIQUE: Throwing a Spiral
TRAINING TIP: The 45-Degree Hyper-Extension Bench
