Especial New Tendencies in Training Science

Training science in the european countries has emerged from two main sources: the sports medicine and the methodology of training. But already within the next ten years, the discipline grew more and more independent, so that in the Soviet Union training science was soon accepted as the core of sports science. Soviet training scientists started to determine the state of the art in that new scientific discipline. East Germany tried to keep up with that development and installed in 1956 the first chair for training science at the German High School for Physical Culture in Leipzig. In West Germany until far into the 1970s (and I think in the english speaking countries until today) training science remained closely related to its two sources, so that you could speak of training science on one hand as something as the applied biology or work physiology of training and on the other hand of something as methodology of elite training.