Good exercises for improving fast-twitch muscle development?

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Or books?

I'm getting curious partly because a) I am bulking up and b) I'm also in martial arts and I'm starting to realize that its only as good as how ready it is to work at any given time. I'm sure that high repetition workouts and anything that helps tone has to have some small benefit but I've noticed that some of these guys have some rather interesting techniques they bring to the table. For instance, I don't know if any of you saw the Fedor Milienenko v. Tony Silva fight on Afflection a long time ago but they visited Fedor's workout routine and he was doing certain things like rapid pull-ups on a rusted swingset (almost like an allegator strike really), wacking a tire on the ground with a sledge hammer giving it all he had at that moment.

Regardless though I don't have the space to be experimenting with things like that on the weekend and I wonder if any of you are familiar with any research that's been done on...I guess more practical exercises that you can fit in through the day that go toward that end? I also just wonder what kinds of general enhancements that offers for neurological health as well.

Fast twitch, or type IIb, muscle fibers are found in all our muscles except forearms, calves, abs, obliques, and back muscles which consist almost entirely of slow twitch, or type I, muscle fibers. The most important thing to understand about muscle fibers is their recovery time. Recovery time is a function of
1. Muscle fiber type - fast twitch fibers take longer to recover than slow twitch.
2. Muscle size - The more a muscle grows, the longer it's recovery time.
Our shoulders, triceps, and chest muscles contain the largest concentration of type IIb fibers and require cyclic training. For beginners it takes about 7 days for these muscles to recover. In very well developed weightlifters the time between type IIb workouts can be up to 21 days, with several less intense workouts in between.

Well obviously 1-5RMs / 95% max jumps to mind or some other stuff
which is kinda hardcore how to put it... you don't deadlift 1rm unless you have a good point to it due to it being risky from various reasons
obviously too long for a forum post well regarding books there rare reviews I think but you mgiht get enough infos on most strength training sites archives..

on another note IIb type fibers are present in every muscle some people have considarable proportions of "white muscle" in their calves even. more than that with training it seems that some fibers can change in composition from various studies ive read long ago.