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"Leaders, coaches, and mentors are charged with helping others to stretch their limits. However, few people enjoy hearing the messy--and sometimes painful--feedback it takes to overcome a personal obstacle. Marcia Reynolds shows how to use the discomfortzone to help others grow, not suffer"--
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Whether you’re married, deepening your commitment to your partner, or single and dating someone new, if you want to ditch the drama in your relationship and become fabulously fulfilled, The Couple’s Playbook is essential reading. Brain-based relationship and life coach Lisa Marini has incorporated incredible insights from the most advanced research on the human brain into a powerful technique for communicating and negotiating strategies that bring...
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Do you seek a healthy romantic relationship, but continue to find yourself repeating the same negative behaviors that may have ended your relationships in the past? Have you already identified destructive patterns, yet continue to repeat them despite your desire for a strong and lasting romantic relationship? If so, you are not alone. Relationship Saboteurs is an easy-to-follow guide that will help you identify and end your relationship-destroying...
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Basketball was originally designed to be a team game, but today's players are growing up in a culture that focuses on the individual. In Teamwork, Mike Huff calls coaches and athletes to return to basketball's essence, by focusing on The 7 Essentials of Teamwork: communication, leadership, humility, roles, team spirit, a winning attitude, and collective responsibility. The lessons in this book will enable coaches to teach life lessons that help players...
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What is different about teams that are consistent winners, those teams that always seem to bring their A-game when the stakes are highest? A positive team culture is likely the answer.
We've all seen it happen: the team that looks great on paper, or has a league-leading regular season, but can't pull out the wins or give their top performance when everything is on the line. As coaches and sport leaders what can we do to ensure that we maximize the...
6) The Coaches
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This classic book on coaching has been used as a reference guide for generations of coaches in football, baseball, soccer, gymnastics and swimming. Sports journalist Bill Libby collected wisdom from over 50 different coaches including Vince Lombardi, Bill Russell, Lefty Phillips, Billy Martin, Casey Stengel, Tom Landry, Woody Hayes, Leo Durocher, Bear Bryant, and Red Auerbach. While there are plenty of books that serve as technical manuals to the...
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If you want to win in sports and in life, you have to show up. Sports have the ability to take us places and provide us with experiences that mimic the heart and soul of what it means to really live. Athletics teach us that we don't have to be born with specific traits and qualities to be successful; rather, we can develop these habits. When we put in the work, the results will come. The small things are often not glamorous and do not come with applause,...
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Una obra para todos, con un lenguaje de fácil entendimiento , una herramienta tanto para iniciados en el deporte como para profesionales.
Con análisis de los ejercicios, consejos, trucos, curiosidades, anécdotas, etimología y dando un punto de vista diferente a la hora de nombrar los músculos y los ejercicios por su forma o gestos al ejecutarlos.
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You want your husband to win, don't you? If you are a coach's wife, the answer to that is a resounding Yes! Every coach's wife hopes for victories because a winning coach is a smiling coach and who doesn't like a happy husband? Would you believe me if I told you that there is a way you can help your husband increase his chances of winning? And it has nothing to do with his coaching strategy or the talent on his team. It has to do with you. In this...
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Introduction to Coaching Sports is unique and offers information that other texts on the subject may not offer. The authors add their personal expertise and include the "why" behind the "what to do." Both students and practitioners will benefit from this text because of the comprehensive presentation of coaching protocols explained in this book, as well as the practical application of this research as it applies to training and counseling athletes....
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What This Book Can Do for You
To rise to the level of elite, you must be willing to do what it takes for as long as it takes to be the best.
It takes focus, determination, effort, and commitment.
It takes mental toughness.
The term elite may seem somewhat overused in this book, but it is the most powerful word in our program regarding the program itself and student-athletes.
Early in my career, I was motivated to go out and seek and learn what...
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In "Building a Culture of Chess Excellence," Reuben Salimu takes you on an extraordinary journey through the world of chess as both a game and a transformative life tool. As an International Chess Instructor and the Executive Director of the African Chess Lounge, Salimu marries his passion for chess with a dedication to community upliftment. This book is not just a memoir but a blueprint for anyone looking to make a meaningful impact through the game...
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If the world runs on teams, why do so few reach their full potential? The road to greatness is littered with talented people who could not manage the "we" of winning. This fast and fun story focuses on actions that leaders and coaches must take to get the most out of their team. Does your team have a trust bank? A success statement? A commitment to let no one fail? If not, then this book is for you.
When a struggling high school hockey team reached...
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Important concepts are best understood by analogies with familiar experiences. When Jesus walked this earth, He taught the people using parables about eating and drinking, farming and fishing, and seeds and treasures.
The author of this book is an old Christian who has devoted his life to teaching and coaching. He here seeks to draw parallels between athletics and the Christian life, thereby offering insight into both.
Topics include hopes and fears,...
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For novice and experienced netball coaches, coaching 13–16-year-old netballers. 20 Netball Training Sessions fully planned out, in detail, ready for you to coach your team's season with confidence. As well as the training sessions there's insight from Gillian Lee about her thoughts going into the design of each session and how to coach it.
Each training session has activities catering for 60-90 minutes time slots. Each activity has set-up, diagram,...
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The Character Coach's Playbook is not just a book, it is a tool! With millions of athletes playing today, it is time to coach the coaches about coaching. Very few (Little League through high school) coaches have any training in the arena of character development. Every great coach from Lombardi to Bowden and Osborne to Wooden understood the importance of personal character. Steve and Huey have produced a practical guide to assist and train coaches...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 I had a teacher who was a mystery to me until I found out he had coached me when I was twelve. I had never thought of him as a coach, but as a teacher. He had a rare ability to enter a child's mind, and he stayed there forever.
#2 The Isidore Newman School is a private school in New Orleans. It was founded in 1903 as a manual training school for Jewish orphans. The...
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The Youth Sports Coaching Guide contains the advice every coach wishes they had been given when they first started. Written by a father of four with coaching experience spanning three decades, the book reads like a down-to-earth conversation with someone who has been in the youth sports coaching trenches. The book covers every aspect of navigating the twenty-first century youth sports coaching arena.
The book travels from the logistics of team selection...
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