Coaching Sports

Discover the inside story of the 1998 Yankees' unprecedented talent with this gripping account from a reporter who was there for the team's dominating 125 wins.​ The visiting clubhouse in San Diego was soggy, sweaty and sticky after the 1998 Yankees swept the Padres in four games and...

Have you ever walked into the venue of your event and felt like your nerves simply couldn't handle it? Losing lucidity has a drastic, negative impact on your performance, and it is vital to learn how to regain it quickly. The state of lucidity involves ongoing action that calls for discernment, the correctness of perception, decision, emotional stability, and action of the individual. This book is packed with practical exercises that will have an immediate impact on leveling you up to the lucidity state and ultimately your performance.

As coaches and sport leaders what can we do to ensure that we maximize the potential of our athletes and teams so they are successful and continue to enjoy sport? How do we ensure that we coach in a way that benefits the team and remains respectful of the individual? In their first book together, André Lachance and Jean François Ménard offer tangible and practical strategies to help sport leaders create efficient group dynamics, build team culture, and help a group of athletes to gel.

The Youth Volleyball Handbook breaks down the game in a fun, approachable way for listeners of all ages. With clear explanations, practical drills, and age-specific strategies, this guide covers everything from bumping and serving to game-day emotions and team dynamics. You'll learn how to build confidence, improve skills, and create a positive environment where players thrive—on and off the court.

This fun and fiery New York Times bestselling memoir tells the life story of All Star Yankee and five-time World Champion, Paul O’Neill, like you’ve never seen him before. In Swing and Hit​, O’Neill elaborates on his most important hitting principles, lessons, and memories—exploring...

Are you a beginner coach looking for drills for your next practice? Or a time-strapped volunteer parent coach? Coaching from the Base Up consults experts, such as Dell Curry, Brian McCormick, Bob Bigelow, and more to share paradigm-shifting ideas, drills, and practice plans.

Building on the core concepts introduced in Every Shot Must Have a Purpose and the strategic thinking in The Game Within the Game, Play Your Best Golf Now takes the mystery out of the soft skills of golf and shows golfers how to add these skills to their game for peak performance.

Parents shape their young athletes' mental strength through everyday interactions, creating the foundation for both athletic success and life skills. This comprehensive guide gives parents the tools they need to build resilience, confidence, and mental toughness in their young athletes.

New York Times bestselling sportswriter Michael Holley takes readers behind the scenes of the relationship that transformed the Patriots from a middling franchise to the envy of the NFL. No head coach-quarterback pair has been more successful in NFL history than Bill Belichick and Tom Brady of...

Decades after it spent weeks at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, A Season on the Brink remains the most celebrated basketball book ever written—an unforgettable chronicle of his year spent following the Indiana Hoosiers and their fiery coach Bob Knight. Granted unprecedented access to...

Le coaching en entraînement est bien plus qu’un simple métier. C’est une véritable vocation qui permet d’accompagner les gens vers une meilleure version d’eux-mêmes, tant sur le plan physique que mental. Devenir coach en entraînement, c’est bien sûr apprendre à créer des programmes efficaces, mais c’est aussi comprendre la psychologie humaine, inspirer ses clients et bâtir une carrière qui allie passion et succès.

Athletes desire—and deserve—a more substantive expression of the Christian faith in the context of sport, but they don’t know what it looks like or where to turn to learn more. Author Brian Smith shares his story as an athlete and coach, and his experience working with high-level athletes in the last decade to help listeners better understand how to integrate faith and sport.

For more than 20 years, author Martin Rooney has coached professional sport stars, Olympic champions, and business leaders to high levels of performance, analyzing thousands of real-life examples of what works and what doesn’t. Coming across like a simple parable, this engaging audiobook gives you an easy-to-use yet highly effective formula for becoming a better coach for your teams, in your business, and in your personal life.

This book is for every player who feels stuck and frustrated by lack of improvement. It is the perfect guide to understanding and developing every aspect of the game.

Do you enjoy soccer, but can’t stand not being confident on what to do while defending? Wish you knew all the different soccer positions to really help your team outsmart your opponents? Are you a coach that has little time with your team to practice and wants to make the most of it? This audiobook provides the structure to ensure that you are not just getting a little information in one spot and some knowledge in another without being able to understand the entire picture of how it all works together.

A poignant, inspirational story about football, family, and love from Bill Cowher, the Super Bowl–winning, Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Steelers coach, and cohost of CBS’s The NFL Today. Long before the Lombardi Trophy, the Golden Hall of Fame jacket, and successful TV career, legendary head...

Based on dozens of shocking interviews with some of the most influential names in sports, this is the urgent and revelatory examination of racial inequality in professional athletics America has been waiting for. Commentators, coaches, and fans alike have long touted the diverse rosters of...

Coaching cheerleading is unlike any other job out there. It comes with it a lot of pressure, responsibility, and expectation. It also comes with a lot of fulfillment, reinforcement, and intrinsic reward. Whether you are a new to coaching or a seasoned veteran, whether you coach all-star, junior high, high school or collegiate-level cheerleaders, whether you are confident in your job or feel overwhelmed and unsure - this audiobook is for you! This audiobook is meant to guide any and all cheerleading coaches through the various aspects of their job.

This audiobook will help a parent understand the value of the time spent in youth sports. It's a helpful tool for parents and coaches to evaluate the progress of a youngster not just in a sport but in their level of confidence in life, their leadership skills, their growth as a person, and the way they relate to others. This is a great tool if you're a new parent or in the middle stages parenting it provides you with ideas and exmples to help you develop a great foundation for your children success in sports and other areas of life.

St. Louis Cardinals manager Mike Matheny's New York Times bestselling manifesto about what parents, coaches, and athletes get wrong about sports; what we can do better; and how sports can teach eight keys to success in sports and life. Mike Matheny was just forty-one, without professional...