Verkhoshansky: An excellent text on the fundamental aspects of training for sport.

Two chapters in particular make this book worth picking up: Factors raising the working effect of muscular work, and the means of special strength training in athletics.

It also includes awesome sections about:

• The role and place of special strength training in the process of attaining sport mastery
• Structural Regularities of the sportsman’s physical preparedness
• Peculiarities of displaying of man’s strength in athletics
• The qualitive characteristics of man’s strength
• Factors raising the working effect of muscular work
• The means of special strength training in athletics
• Fundamentals of modern strength training methods
• Principle aims in organizing special strength training