Kategoria BISAC: Sports & Recreation >> Coaching - General

Jack Dempsey, one of the greatest and most popular boxers of all time, reveals the techniques behind his unparalleled success in the ring. Straightforward and with detailed illustrations, Championship Boxing instructs the reader in the theory, training, and application of powerful punching, aggressive defense, proper stance, feinting, and footwork. The methods Dempsey reveals will prove useful to both amateurs and professionals.

"I was confident that I could take the rawest beginner, or...

The Complete Guide to Strength Training is the ultimate resource for anyone wanting to increase strength and resculpt their body. Featuring proven training programs and evidence-based nutritional guidance, it delivers comprehensive workouts for beginners, intermediates, and elite athletes. This updated fifth edition includes:

- Full-color photos and detailed descriptions of more than one hundred exercises
- Programs for increasing strength, muscle, and explosive power
- Fat loss workouts
- Body-weight-based workouts
- Plyometric...

This book raises critical questions about the explanatory framework guiding sports coaching research and presents a new conceptualization for research in the field. Through mapping and contextualizing sports coaching research within a corporatized higher education, the dominant or legitimate forms of sports coaching knowledge are problematized and a new vision of the field, which is socially and culturally responsive, communitarian and justice-oriented emerges.

Featuring the insights, strategies, and experiences of the sport's top coaches, The Hockey Coaching Bible sets a new standard for those who teach the game, develop the players, and dominate the ice. Whether head coach or assistant, at the youth level or professional, you will find a wealth of information to improve performance and strengthen your program.

You'll go inside the game with 16 of hockey's most respected teachers:

- Joe Bertagna

- Bill Cleary

- Tom Anastos

- Guy Gadowsky

- Mike Schafer

- Marty Palma

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Take your performance to the next level with Functional Training. Author Juan Carlos Santana brings you his revolutionary approach to training and conditioning methods sure to improve your function in any sport or activity. Functional Training covers the recent breakthroughs, the most exercises, and proven programs that you can follow or incorporate into your existing training plan.

Offering strength, endurance, power, and sport-specific exercises and programming, Functional Training is a comprehensive resource for every athlete, coach, and athletic trainer....

Be the best coach you can be. Valuable information supporting the need for Mental Fitness Training in sport. This unique step-by-step outline walks coaches through how to speak to their athletes and how to think and act in order to gain the best possible results. Key concepts include: The "Think Different" principle - what it is and why it's so important; the value of positive reinforcement, confidence, and gratitude; how to best deal with adversity. Teach players how to visualize...

My journey began chipping balls around a rural back garden. It took me all over the world playing golf and chasing my dream before bringing me back to England to help other people get better at chipping balls round their back gardens. Growing up playing golf with the likes of Luke Donald, Ian Poulter and Justin Rose gave me first hand experience of the difference between what good players do, and what the best players in the world do. The problem is you can't see it. You only see the results. The difference is invisible, barely tangible. But if you get curious, and get quiet enough,...

In our increasingly risk-averse society, touch and touching behaviours between professionals and children have become a fraught issue. In sports coaching and physical education, touching young sports performers and participants has, in some contexts, come to be redefined as dubious and dangerous. Coaches find themselves operating in a framework of regulations and guidelines that create anxiety, for them and others, and for many volunteer (and sometimes professional) coaches, this fearful context has led them to question the risks and benefits of their continuing involvement in sport....

There is evidence of considerable growth in the availability and use of digital technologies in physical education. Yet, we have scant knowledge about how technologies are being used by teachers, and whether or how these technologies are optimising student learning. This book makes a novel contribution by focusing on the ways in which teachers and teacher educators are attempting to use digital technologies in PE.

The book has been created using the innovative pedagogical cases framework. Each case centres on a narrative, written by a PE practitioner, explaining how and why...

There is evidence of considerable growth in the availability and use of digital technologies in physical education. Yet, we have scant knowledge about how technologies are being used by teachers, and whether or how these technologies are optimising student learning. This book makes a novel contribution by focusing on the ways in which teachers and teacher educators are attempting to use digital technologies in PE.

The book has been created using the innovative pedagogical cases framework. Each case centres on a narrative, written by a PE practitioner, explaining how and why...

Golf is a beloved yet technical game, so a sound swing and precise technique are essential. Most golfers who want to improve their skills go to the range and work painstakingly on their swings, not realizing it's often their performance state on the course that needs work, not their technique. Simple things such as awareness of your balance, tension,...

The objective of this book is to help the new coach gain confidence in his or her ability to coach the game of tennis.

This book will help the new coach develop skills, promote and maintain a tennis program to satisfy the needs of the individual player and team through his knowledge from using this book as a guide.

Provide the coach the ability to help his/her team have fun, play well without fear of embarrassment.

Coach Brown is dedicated to teaching and helping those who are willing to learn the game of tennis.