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Block Periodization: Breakthrough in Sport Training By Vladimir Issurin Elite Sport Department at the Wingate Institute for Physical Education and Sport, Israel Contents Dedication Preface Acknowledgements Section 1 – Training backgrounds - basic concepts. Chapter 1. Basic terms and principles of sport training. Essence of sport training and athletic preparation. 1.1.1. Objective, aims and training targets. 1.1.2. Basic terms of the athletic training. 1.1.3. Training methods. 1.2. Training and principles of adaptation. 1.2.1. Training load magnitude and the overload principle. 1.2.2. Training load specificity. 1.2.3. Accommodation. Supercompensation principle and its application to practice. 1.3.1. Supercompensation cycle following a single load. 1.3.2. Summation of several loads within a workout series. Specialized principles of sport training. 1.4.1. Specialization. 1.4.2. Individualization. 1.4.3. Variety. 1.4.4. Load interaction. 1.4.5.Cyclical training design Summary Chapter 2. Training effects. Training effects: General overview. 2.2. Acute training effect 2.2.1. Acute training effect assessed by sport-specific indicators. 2.2.2. Acute training effect assessed by psycho-physiological variables. 2.2.3. Programming of acute training effect. 2.3. Immediate training effect. 2.3.1. Indicators of immediate training effect. 2.3.2. Monitoring of immediate training effects 2.4. Cumulative training effect. 2.4.1. Improvement rate in physiological variables. 2.4.2. Improvement of motor abilities 2.4.3. Improvement of athletic performances 2.5. Delayed training effect. 2.6. Residual training effect. 2.6.1. Basic concept and types of residual training effects. 2.6.2. Factors affecting short-term residual training effects Summary Chapter 3. Trainability. 3.1. Heredity related determinations of trainability. 3.1.1. Outstanding sport families. 3.1.2.Genetic determination of somatic