Author: Dan WilkinsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781838189204
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Adventure Sports Coaching
Author: Matt BerryPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131775395X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Coaching adventure sports is part of the core work of many adventure educators but has been largely neglected in the adventure studies literature. This is the first book to link contemporary sports coaching science with adventure sports practice. It examines the unique set of challenges faced by adventure sports coaches, such as the dynamic natural environment and the requirement to train athletes to levels of high performance outside of traditional structures of competition, and explores both key theory and best practice. The book covers key topics such as: Skill acquisition and skill development Models of learning and teaching Performance analysis Tactics and decision-making Training principles Mental skills techniques Goal setting and progression Risk management Each chapter contains applied examples from a range of adventure sports, including mountaineering, rock climbing, canoeing, kayaking, surfing, and winter sport, as well as practical coaching techniques and a guide to further reading. Written by a team of authors with wide experience of coaching, teaching, researching and high performance participation in adventure sports, this book is invaluable reading for any student or practitioner with an interest in adventure, outdoor education, sports coaching or lifestyle sport.
Positive Pedagogy for Sport Coaching
Author: Richard LightPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315443716
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
The concept of positive pedagogy has transformed the way we understand learning and coaching in sport. Presenting examples of positive pedagogy in action, this book is the first to apply its basic principles to individual sports such as swimming, athletics, gymnastics and karate. Using the game based approach (GBA) (an athlete-centred, inquiry-based method that involves game-like activities), this book demonstrates how positive pedagogy can be successfully employed across a range of sports and levels of performance, while also providing insight into coaches’ experiences of this approach. Divided into three sections that focus on the development, characteristics and applications of positive pedagogy, it fills a gap in coaching literature by extending the latest developments of GBA to activities beyond team sports. It pioneers a way of coaching that is both efficient in improving performance and effective in promoting positive experiences of learning across all ages and abilities. Positive Pedagogy for Sport Coaching: Athlete-centred coaching for individual sports is invaluable reading for all sports coaching students as well as any practising coach or physical education teacher looking for inspiration.
Coach Education Essentials
Author: Kristen DieffenbachPublisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
ISBN: 1492521078
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
In Coach Education Essentials, renowned coach educators and professionals present the key elements of quality coaching and how to cultivate it. This resource is for everyone invested in advancing the abilities and actions of coaches through effective educational and developmental experiences.
Author: Stephen RollnickCoaching Mastery
Author: David W. SmithPublisher: TNT Tennis Academy
ISBN: 0974902616
Category : Coaching (Athletics)
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Coaching Mastery : The ULTIMATE "Blueprint" for Tennis Coaches, Tennis Parents, and Tennis-teaching Professionals. Learn how to: Attract tennis players to your program, develop sustainable tennis programs, and build perennial championship teams and successful individuals. Following the world-wide embrace of David W. Smith's book, TENNIS MASTERY, David now brings his "Advanced Foundation" to the art of coaching and teaching tennis. For the High School, Club or Team Coach, from the highly experienced to the uninitiated, Coaching Mastery is a PROVEN "blueprint" to attracting players and designing highly effective and efficient tennis practices. For the Tennis Parent: Regardless of your tennis experience, Coaching Mastery will provide a clear and proven method to make sure you are providing your child the right progression and patterns of play to insure they will reach their personal best...and do it in a way that makes it fun for both parent and child! For the Tennis-teaching Professional: Coaching Mastery provides a lifetime of successful tennis club programming and teaching experience, a resource to enhance any teaching professional's teaching program. Coaching Mastery provides over 70 effective drills and dozens of ideas that allow any coach or teacher to get the most out of their tennis opportunities. In addition, Coaching Mastery provides the "Advanced Foundation" principles that define every shot and every stroke in the sport.
Team Sports Training
Author: Javier MalloPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100004954X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Team Sports Training: The Complexity Model presents a novel approach to team sports training, examining football (soccer), rugby, field hockey, basketball, handball and futsal through the paradigm of complexity. Under a traditional prism, these sports have been analyzed using a deterministic perspective, where the constituent dimensions of the sportsmen were independently examined and treated in isolation. It was expected that the body worked as a perfect machine and, once all the components were maximized, the sportsmen improved their performance. If the same closed recipe was applied to all the players that formed part of the squad, the global team performance was expected to be enhanced. As much as these reductionistic models seem coherent, when contrasted in practice we see that the reality of team sports is far more different from the closed conditions in which they were idealized. Team sports contain variable, heterogeneous and non-linear constrains which require the development of a different logic to organize their training. During the last years, ecological psychology, the dynamical systems theory or the constraints-led approach have opened interesting fields of research from which many conceptual foundations can be applied to team sports. Based in this contemporary framework, the current book presents the study of the players and the teams as complex systems, using coordination dynamics to explain the emergence of the self-organisation episodes that characterize them. In addition, this thinking line provides the reader with the ability to apply all these innovative concepts to their practical training scenarios. Altogether, it is intended to challenge the reader to re-think their training strategy and to develop an original theory and practice of training specific to team sports.
Heart Rate Training
Author: Roy BensonPublisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
ISBN: 1492590223
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Heart Rate Training, Second Edition, helps athletes and fitness enthusiasts use the data captured by heart rate monitors to create and customize training programs that improve performance.
The Language of Coaching
Author: Nick WinkelmanPublisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
ISBN: 1492567361
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The Language of Coaching examines how instruction, feedback, and cueing can have a significant impact on training and performance outcomes. The book offers a comprehensive collection of cueing frameworks to help coaches better communicate with athletes in any sport.
The Cool Impossible
Author: Eric OrtonPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0451416341
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Featured in the book Born to Run, running coach Eric Orton offers a guide for every runner... Natural running is more than barefoot running. It’s about the joy of running that we were all born with and can reawaken. With a program focused on proper form, strength development, and cardiovascular training, Orton will help beginners, competitors, and enduring veterans reach “the cool impossible”—the belief that any achievement, athletic or otherwise, is within our reach. Inside you’ll find: * Foot strength exercises for runners to catapult performance, combat injuries, and transform technique * A total-body-strength program designed for runners * Step-by-step run-form coaching for performance and lifelong healthy running * A training program for building endurance, strength, and speed * No-nonsense nutrition for runners * Visualization and mind-training tactics to run and live the Cool Impossible * And much more… ATHLETICISM IS AWARENESS—awareness of form and technique, awareness of our effort level, and, most important, awareness of what we think. And with that awareness comes the endless potential for mastery and achievement beyond anything you thought possible. INCLUDES PHOTOS
