Here is more information on the background of the book Supertraining;
Without a doubt the greatest recent success in challenging these limits of performance was enjoyed by the former Soviet Union, whose extremely efficient system of sports development dominated international sport for about four decades. Its organisational and educational proficiency in integrating its research and experience with knowledge from other countries is clearly reflected by the number of medals and victories enjoyed over many decades by their athletes in numerous sports in World Championships and Olympic Games. Not many years after the USSR shared this model of sporting development and their coaches as part of an ongoing cultural exchange with ‘Eastern bloc’ countries such as East Germany, Poland, Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria, as well as Cuba, North Korea and China, the athletes of these nations began rivalling and defeating their Western counterparts. The introduction into China of the sports school system, methods of athlete selection, individualised periodisation schemes and formalised restoration regimes has already played a major role in producing the Chinese superstars who are beginning to dominate several sports today.
A vital aspect of the Russian model was the use of strength training to supplement the technical training of all sports. The few innovative concepts and methods of training, such as periodisation, sports modelling and plyometrics, which filtered across to the West were rapidly adopted and revolutionised training in many sports. Broad international familiarity with other specialised strength methods, however, has not yet developed. This book has been written to make many of these special strength conditioning techniques available to exercise scientists, coaches and sports medical professionals in countries which have not been exposed to the most important concepts and methods of Russian training. It has not confined itself to a purely Russian approach, because there is an equally valuable body of Western material which admirably complements and extends the Russian model. The resulting text, therefore, offers a synthesis of advanced Eastern and Western strength science.
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