Basic considerations for exercise / Howard G. Knuttgen and Paavo V. Komi -- Neuronal control of functional movement / Volker Dietz -- Motor unit and motoneurone excitability during explosive movement / Toshio Moritani -- Muscular basis of strength / R. Billeter and H. Hoppeler -- Hormonal mechanisms related to the expression of muscular strength and power / William J. Kraemer and Scott A. Mazzetti -- Exercise-related adaptations in connective tissue / Ronald F. Zernicke and Barbara Loitz-Ramage -- Contractile performance of skeletal muscle fibres / K.A. Paul Edman -- Skeletal muscle and motor unit architecture : effect on performance / Roland R. Roy [and others] -- Mechanical muscle models and their application to force and power production / Walter Herzog and Rachid Ait-Haddou -- Stretch-shortening cycle / Paavo V. Komi -- Cellular and molecular aspects of adaptation in skeletal muscle / Geoffrey Goldspink and Stephen Harridge -- Hypertrophy and hyperplasia / J. Duncan Macdougall -- Acute and chronic muscle metabolic adaptations to strength training / Per A. Tesch and Björn A. Alkner -- Neural adaptation to strength training / Digby G. Sale -- Mechanisms of muscle and motor unit adaptation to explosive power training / Jacques Duchateau and Karl Hainaut -- Proprioceptive training : considerations for strength and power production / Albert Gollhofer -- Connective tissue and bone response to strength training / Michael H. Stone and Christina Karatzaferi -- Endocrine responses and adaptations to strength and power training / William J. Kraemer and Nicholas A. Ratamess -- Cardiovascular responses to strength training / Steven J. Fleck -- Ageing and neuromuscular adaptation to strength training / Keijo Häkkinen -- Use of electrical stimulation in strength and power training / Gary A. Dudley and Scott W. Stevenson -- Biomechanics of strength and strength training / Vladimir M. Zatsiorsky -- Vibration loads : potential for strength and power development / Joachim Mester, Peter Spitzenpfeil and Zengyuan Yue -- Training for weightlifting / John Garhammer and Bob Takano
Summary
The second edition of this broadly based book continues to examine and update the basic and applied aspects of strength and power in sport from the neurophysiology of the basic motor unit to training for specific activities. Authorship is, again, international and includes leading physiologists and clinicians
