Anatoliy Bondarchuk’s latest book draws on decades of experience from personal and protégés’ Olympic gold to fashion training advice for almost any sport. He includes extensive Soviet studies of age development to offer year-by-year programs. One of the book’s most valuable resources is showing how to periodize annual training cycles.
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