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Originally Posted by EZA
I have a secret for anyone who thinks Verkhoshansky and Zatsiorsky are overcomplicating simple things: Human Performance is complicated! The reality is that 99% of books out there and training information you've read is actually oversimplifying very complicated things.
How the body works, how it adapts to training, how it improves, etc. is incredibly complicated because these things involve virtually ever major system within the body - many of which we don't fully understand.
We've been studying muscles for hundreds of years and millions upon millions of dollars have been spent on research and yet we still don't know at a fundamental level the exact causes of muscular fatigue and there are many unanswered questions about the sliding filament theory of muscular contraction.
The inner workings of the human body are infiniately complex and how they all work together in the context of performance is not something that anybody has even close to all the answers to.
Other books you've read haven't even scratched the surface of what human performance really is and Zatsiorsky and Verkhoshansky are simply at a much higher level than what you've read. These are two of the greatest sports scientists of our time, Verkhoshansky literally pioneered the concept of plyometrics and vastly expanded our knowledge of human performance through his work.
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It's hard to stay abreast of all the new research in the sports science field; if you wouldn't mind, it'd be great if you could post links to articles or other sources for relevant new info, studies, etc. Especially concerning sports science, muscle adaptation and its correlations to the central nervous system.