Coaching Sports

Eddie Reese: Coaching Swimming, Teaching Life weaves Coach Reese’s personal and career development with his methodology in developing swimmers that won 39 Olympic Gold Medals and 15 NCAA Team Titles. The book details training, leadership, and how to teach life lessons to bring the most out of each individual through the process of development in their sport.

This audiobook will guide you through getting started in the world's most addictive sport: boxing. You will learn everything from what to look for in a boxing gym and how to choose the best boxing equipment to basic punching and defensive techniques. I've been boxing for more than 10 years and still haven't lost my passion for it. Boxing is one of those things that is still the highlight of my day. From all this experience I generally know what works and what doesn't. I know what a good boxing gym is and what isn't. I want to share my knowledge with you and help you get started.

Are you struggling to balance encouragement and pressure? Do you want effective ways to help your child handle stress, perform better, and enjoy sports? This guide offers actionable techniques to enhance your child's mental resilience and emotional well-being.

Teams that run spread offenses have a long history for being known as teams that lack physicality. In Coaching the A Gap Power you will learn how to bring a physical running style to your spread offense that makes defenses put more defenders in the box. Besides the inside zone, the power blocking scheme is one of the most universal running plays in football. In Coaching the A Gap Power you will learn how this blocking scheme utilizes angles to create double teams at the point of attack while bringing an extra blocker to lead the runner through the hole.

Do you put 110 percent effort into your training sessions and still see no improvement? Are you looking for a simple guide that summarizes the best habits used by today's top athletes? The truth is...some of us train our hearts out and see little improvement. And some of us are just getting started and don't know where to begin. This audiobook is for athletes from all levels of experience - from your first few steps to your last stroke in an Olympic swim. You might be looking for motivation to go on your first run. Or you might be ready to trial for your country's Olympic team.

This is a must-listen, cautionary tale for any parents with kids in youth sports or any adult considering coaching children. We have a coaching crisis in this country. Because of the parents with unrealistic assessments of how much more important their kids are to their teams or just how good (or not) their children are, coaches are putting their personal and professional reputations on the line when they coach a team for these parents: And the risks are starting to outweigh the rewards.

A player who could hardly defend. A bleak soccer future as a bench-warmer. An athlete who lacked confidence in their game. Are you or a loved one enjoying soccer, but can’t stand not being confident on how to defend? Do you or a child have a problem stopping the team from shooting? Are you a parent or player that would love to stop the dribble of each opponent, but struggle even stopping the foot skills of one player? If any of these situations describe you, you are not alone. Coaches of soccer are good at having the team work together. Sadly, your abilities as an individual are often lost in the team’s tactics unless you are the star player on the team. The coach lets the best player do as they please but every other player must do their job, even though the coach may not always teach exactly how to do that job.

What’s your max squat? How much ya bench? What’s your best deadlift? Can you press your body weight? Today, pushing quantifiable expressions of strength, like your maxes, is becoming increasingly ubiquitous. However, though strength may be specific, real strength is much more than a powerlifting total - it’s about resilience, capability, and adaptability. It’s survival of the fittest after all, not the strongest.

Ever wonder why after all of your lessons and practice, you still struggle to improve your game? Or ever wonder how it can be that your performance is great during practice, yet when the heat is on—you choke? Retrain your brain with Laura King’s Awesome Athletic Performance book.

Finished It unlocks the Alabama softball story in a transparent and powerful way. Her stories are woven together, creating the sensation you are living and learning what makes Alabama softball special.

Sportsmanship with youth carries a spirit that we all can restore with focus and effort. SCORE is a 5-part series exploring our individual roles in instilling healthy sportsmanship and a working plan to do so. We are looking to develop a spirit in sport where victory is not measured so much on the scoreboard, as it is in the stands and on the benches; where children, teens and adults can celebrate victory or defeat with style, grace, and sportsmanship; developing character for success in life.

Throughout his baseball career and life Christy Mathewson often wrote down his observations and philosophies. The most famous collection of these writings was published by John N. Wheeler in the classic baseball book. He was asked many times to write an autobiography yet never completed one. The Mathewson Foundation and Eddie Frierson have undertaken to put all of these writings into book form for future generations to experience the wit, wisdom and observations of the great Hall of Famer, Christy Mathewson.

Motiviert ins Lauftraining: Das Laufbuch für Freizeitsport und Wettkampfvorbereitung. Das richtige Training ist das A und O im Laufsport. Mit gezielten Übungen lässt sich die Ausdauer verbessern und die Laufgeschwindigkeit erhöhen. Doch worauf kommt es beim Lauftraining für 10 Kilometer und Halbmarathon an? Lauftrainer und Ex-Profiläufer Carsten Eich nimmt Sie in diesem Buch mit auf die Tartanbahn.

You’ll be given the ins and outs of recruiting to start stocking your team with premium players; an inside look at the most effective batting drills to ensure an offensive powerhouse; and proper fielding techniques and drills to reinforce the techniques.

This short book is a response to the increased popularity of Olympic weightlifting and the problems that have come with it: the quality of coaching in the sport has been diluted in the English-speaking world by increased demand. This book aims to provide a basic description of how to coach weightlifting effectively, based on some very simple principles and approaches that should be developed. This will also help the new athlete seeking a coach understand the why of her/his training as well as the how.

Do I want to become an elite coach in my sport? Do I want inspire my players to be successful in sport, but also in their lives? Do I want to learn qualities that make me a great coaching candidate? 50 Things to Know About Coaching, by Shane A. Reinhard, offers an approach to coaching sport that is not just about wins and losses, but more about skill development, relationship building, and being successful outside of sport.

David L. Angeron maps the road to excellence with an in-depth look at performance psychology by way of the all-time greatest moments in sports history and relevant examples of contemporary athletes at the peak of their careers. David L. Angeron reveals the secrets of Olympians, MVPs, World Cup winners, record breakers, history makers, and sports legends in The X-Factor for Success, the definitive guide to upping your game.

After landing her dream job as head volleyball coach at Ohio State University, Lauren Chase’s career has become a nightmare. Her only hope of saving her job is to recruit a star player to her team. Too bad the player’s twin brother has signed a football scholarship for OSU’s chief rival, Michigan. And too bad Michigan coach, Jeremy Trent, sends sparks through Lauren every time they cross paths. But no way will she pursue an attraction to a man who represents the university she hates.

The story of Jeff Horn is like a fairy tale. Written with award-winning author, journalist and boxing aficionado Grantlee Kieza, The Hornet is the tale of a boy who, slapped around by bullies, saw through tears in his eyes a vision of himself as a hero, a champ, someone other people might one day look up to. Horn took up boxing after being tormented as a teenager. Fast-forward a dozen years and the former bullied schoolboy - now humble schoolteacher - became world boxing champion on 2nd July 2017 at Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium.

Alan Curbishley has spent a lifetime in football as a fan, player and manager. In his 40 years, he has seen the game he loves change beyond all recognition. The money, the media, the celebrity culture, the agents - when Curbishley began his playing career in 1975, no one could have foreseen a future in which television rights sold for £10 billion. Through incredible access to the biggest names in the game, he takes a look at the modern game in all its guises, from the chairmen and chief executives at the very top to managers and players and all the way to the fans and ground staff.