Kategoria BISAC: Sports & Recreation >> Coaching - General

Being a coach is complicated business. Winning is important, but there is so much more to it. Coaches are asked to be teachers, disciplinarians, leaders, and collaborators. As important as the Xs and Os are, the greater goa-the heart of coaching-is helping players become responsible, mature adults.

Success begins with the coach, and you will learn the three things you need to know about creating a high-performance organization. The team's results reflect what you communicate. You communicate through everything you say and do. Self-managed, balanced coaches create resilient teams; a real...

This book celebrates two important aspects of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (1) For those involved in any aspect of Olympism, and particularly coaches and athletes, London 2012 was about realising dreams, achieving success and participating in competitive sport at the highest level. This book sets out some of these dreams and the part coaches play in this. (2) The book also looks at the notion of coaching-for-performance and does this from an international and multi-sport perspective. From interviews with Olympic coaches, the experiences of those working in the field of...

Effective leadership is essential in any sports organisation, both in the boardroom and on the training pitch. "Leadership in Sport" is the first textbook to examine sports leadership in the round, across both management and coaching environments. It includes a dedicated section to underpinning core leadership theories, and employs a number of case studies throughout to show how best practice is applied in real world settings.

Drawing on expertise from some of the leading academics and practitioners throughout the world, and from both disciplines, the book covers various leadership...

Effective leadership is essential in any sports organisation, both in the boardroom and on the training pitch. "Leadership in Sport" is the first textbook to examine sports leadership in the round, across both management and coaching environments. It includes a dedicated section to underpinning core leadership theories, and employs a number of case studies throughout to show how best practice is applied in real world settings.

Drawing on expertise from some of the leading academics and practitioners throughout the world, and from both disciplines, the book covers various leadership...

Sport performance analysis techniques help coaches, athletes and sport scientists develop an objective understanding of actual sport performance, as opposed to self-report, fitness tests or laboratory based experiments. For example, contemporary performance analysis enables elite sports people and coaches to obtain live feedback of match statistics and video sequences using flexible internet systems, systems that have become an indispensible tool for all those involved in high performance sport. The Routledge Handbook of Sports Performance Analysis is the most comprehensive guide...

Over the last three decades sports coaching has evolved from a set of customary practices based largely on tradition and routine into a sophisticated, reflective and multi-disciplinary profession. In parallel with this, coach education and coaching studies within higher education have developed into a coherent and substantial field of scholarly enquiry with a rich and sophisticated research literature.

The Routledge Handbook of Sports Coaching is the first book to survey the full depth and breadth of contemporary coaching studies, mapping the existing disciplinary...