Former East Germany's bible of track and field training. Many prominent East German coaches and scientists worked as co-authors, contributing their wealth of coaching experience and scientific knowledge. The book gives good broad insight into modern, scientifically-based training and skill development in all track and field events. It presents facts, relationships, and laws of the theory and methodology of sports training. The background training methods, their completeness, and the excellent techniques are very enlightening. It is a must for every P.E. teacher, serious coach, and athlete.
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Valuable Reference for Coaches and Athletes,
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East Germany is gone, but their best coaches left a legacy of groundbreaking ideas and methods for training and racing in in this manual. Very thorough, covering jumps, javelin and shot put as well as running events. An important addition to everyone's track and field library.
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An excellent read full of good information. Whether there is a drug taint to some of the information given it is hard to tell but nonetheless it is still a good text that most coaches will find informative and useful.
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This is a very broad introduction into the East German system of training T&F events. Of course, the text is rather old, so some of the information may be outdated. It does not cover the flop style in the high jump, or the rotational style in the shot put. Of course, East German shot putters exclusively used the glide technique anyway, so this is not a major flaw. Also, the chapter on hammer throwing describes the old dragging technique rather than the modern pushing style.
Still, the book gives an overview of training in all T&F events from training for young beginners to the mature elite athlete. This gives the reader an excellent overview of training and ideology in East German track and field, a system that created a lot of great athletes. The price they paid may however have been too high, because despite that the book states that training track and field contributes to the people's general health, this may not have been the main goal of the system. The book needs to be read critically, because it is also a piece of propaganda, but it should still be read! There's a lot of valuable material for the serious and curious coach and athlete.
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The first Olympic Games of modern times were held in Athens in 1896 on the decision of the first Olympic Congress which met in Paris in 1894 and followed the initiatives and aims of the Baron Pierre de Coubertin. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
intensive interval work, special preparatory exercises, trailing leg action, women hurdlers, hurdle seat, leading leg action, squat vaults, second arm swing, hurdle stride, special agility, outgoing runner, landing rhythm, most hurdlers, ancillary exercises, impulse stride, worthwhile break, special endurance, flying sprints, hurdle clearance, stimulus volume, crouch start, receiving runner, bar clearance, striding position, jumping strength Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Olympic Games, Weekly Schedule of Training, Day Duration, Warm-up Jogging, Warm-up Running, Closing Training Means Monday, Warm-up Game, Der Leichtathlet, Jogging Walking, Hurdle Race Performance, Working Number of Repetitions, Hurdles Long, Jogging Saturday, Jogging Thursday, Men Women Age, Pace Monday, Standard Distance, Team of Authors, Technique Throws, Time-Unit Capacity, Warm-up Limbering, Warm-up Same New!
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The first Olympic Games of modern times were held in Athens in 1896 on the decision of the first Olympic Congress which met in Paris in 1894 and followed the initiatives and aims of the Baron Pierre de Coubertin. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
intensive interval work, special preparatory exercises, trailing leg action, women hurdlers, hurdle seat, leading leg action, squat vaults, second arm swing, hurdle stride, special agility, outgoing runner, landing rhythm, most hurdlers, ancillary exercises, impulse stride, worthwhile break, special endurance, flying sprints, hurdle clearance, stimulus volume, crouch start, receiving runner, bar clearance, striding position, jumping strength Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Olympic Games, Weekly Schedule of Training, Day Duration, Warm-up Jogging, Warm-up Running, Closing Training Means Monday, Warm-up Game, Der Leichtathlet, Jogging Walking, Hurdle Race Performance, Working Number of Repetitions, Hurdles Long, Jogging Saturday, Jogging Thursday, Men Women Age, Pace Monday, Standard Distance, Team of Authors, Technique Throws, Time-Unit Capacity, Warm-up Limbering, Warm-up Same New!
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- Circuit Training by Manfred Scholich on page 86
- Biomechanics of Athletic Movement by Gerhard Hochmuth on page 224
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