Sport Coaches' Handbook supports the education and development of sport coaches by providing them with the knowledge required to fulfill their roles as coaches while considering their personal values and philosophy, the athletes they coach, and the environment in which they coach.
"This book provides a timely and much-needed resource for meeting the challenges coaching is currently facing as a profession.
"This book provides a timely and much-needed resource for meeting the challenges coaching is currently facing as a profession.
This title surveys the full depth and breadth of contemporary coaching studies, mapping the existing disciplinary territory and opening up important new areas of research.
The Routledge Handbook of Coaching Children in Sport provides a comprehensive and extensive range of critical reflections of key areas impacting on children’s sport and coaching up to the age of 16.
This handbook was generated by a survey of the specific needs of the coaching community serving young children as athletic coaches. The survey revealed a need for information that addresses the needs of beginning level volunteer coaches.
Together with ancillary web access this text provides 200 policies for establishing team morals in the areas of: respect, responsibility, caring, honesty, fairness, and good citizenship.
Covering all the basic fundamentals youth coaches should be following, this guide is complete with a quick warm-up routine, play-calling instructions, and essential information.
The Routledge Handbook of Elite Sport Performance is the first book to examine a broad span of performance and support issues in contemporary elite sport; including coaching, sports science and medicine, leadership and management, operating ...
It's an easy read full of anecdotal references and real life experiences Dave shares with us to make our transition to coaching "The Way to Good Sports".
This is an essential textbook for any degree-level course in sports coaching, and for any professional coach looking to develop their coaching expertise.