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Psychology in Sports Coaching
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Some of the most effective coaches understand the fundamentals of sport psychology, which include interacting effectively with athletes, creating the optimal environment, assessing the psychological needs of their athletes, and even providing them with the mental training required to maximise performance.
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by Dr. B.J. Srinivasaraju
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
The book about Sports Socialogy
by Dr. Rajeev Kumar
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2011
Every physical activity gives us something to learn, increases our fitness components (one or the other) makes one confident and refresher or recharges us to lead life happy. On other side participation in games and sports may lead to injury. The injury can be the minor one, serious, career ending or...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Mentoring is a core element of any successful teacher education or coach education programme, with evidence suggesting that teachers and coaches who are mentored early in their careers are more likely to become effective practitioners. Physical education and sports coaching share important pedagogical,...
The Endurance Handbook
How to Achieve Athletic Potential, Stay Healthy, and Get the Most Out of Your Body
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Are you a triathlete, runner, cyclist, swimmer, cross-country skier, or other athlete seeking greater endurance? The Endurance Handbook teaches athletes how to stay healthy, achieve optimal athletic potential, and be injury-free for many productive years. Dr. Philip Maffetone’s approach to endurance...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
An effective strength and conditioning program is an essential component of the preparation of any athlete or sportsperson. Strength and Conditioning for Sports Performance is a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the theory and practice of strength and conditioning, providing students,...
Sports Coaching E-Book
Professionalisation and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Sports Coaching: Professionalisation and Practice is a comprehensive evidence-based textbook of sports coaching theory and practice. The book is edited by leading academics in sports coaching studies and authored by a world-renowned team of experts in sports coaching research. It deals with all aspects...
Sports Journalism and Coming Out Stories
Jason Collins and Michael Sam
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This book examines how sports journalists covered the historic coming out stories of National Basketball Association (NBA) veteran Jason Collins and football All-American Michael Sam in the context of sports’ “toy department” reputation as a field whose standards are often criticized as lacking...
Game Changer
The Art of Sports Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Team sports like football, basketball, soccer, and rugby are hugely popular the world over, on both college and professional levels, and such popularity means that they are big business. Very big. Broadcasting rights alone bring in billions: ESPN paid $5.6 billion to broadcast college football playoffs...
I Was There!
Joe Buck, Bob Costas, Jim Nantz, and Others Relive the Most Exciting Sporting Events of Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Take a trip through sports history through the eyes of those covering the biggest events of all time. In I Was There! seventy of the biggest names in sports broadcasting and journalism share their personal experiences at the top five sports moments they each saw in person. From cultural phenomena...
by Kathy Hogan
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Take the Lead: Make Youth Sports What They Were Meant to Be is filled with inspirational stories that will encourage athletes, coaches, and parents to take a fresh look at youth sports. Sports have the potential to teach powerful lessons. Youth athletic programs need to focus on the lessons we want...
Replays, Rivalries, and Rumbles
The Most Iconic Moments in American Sports
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
What were the iconic sports moments of the last century? In Replays, Rivalries, and Rumbles , a team of sports aficionados climb onto their bar stools to address that never-solved but essential question. Triumphs and turning points, rivalries and record-setters ”each chapter tracks down the real...
Laughing in the Hills
A Season at the Racetrack
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Bill Barich burst onto the literary scene more than twenty-five years ago with this remarkable account of racetrack life. Holed up in a cheap motel in Albany, California, only a few miles from Golden Gate Fields, he looked to the track to help him make sense of his life during a dark peiod of loss...
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal
The Lives and Careers of Two Tennis Legends
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Since 2004, two names have dominated men’s tennis: Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer. Each player is legendary in his own right. The Spanish Nadal is the winner of sixteen Grand Slam titles, including five consecutive French Open singles titles from 2010-2014, and is the only player ever to win a Grand...