Coaching Sports

The Blindside meets Friday Night Lights in Keanon Lowe's Hometown Victory when an NFL coach returns home after losing a friend to opiods to coach a team of struggling high school kids on a 23-game losing streak. Keanon Lowe was working as an offensive analyst for the San Francisco 49ers when his...

"Narrator Brad Sanders's baritone voice bestows deserved gravitas on this remarkable story...Hoops and history fans won't be the only ones appreciating this inspirational listen." — AudioFile Magazine Attucks! is the true story of the all-black high school basketball team that broke the color...

In The Parent Edge, former MLB player and certified mindset coach Chad Hermansen delivers a practical and heartfelt guide for parents navigating the emotional rollercoaster of youth sports. Drawing on his own experience as a pro athlete, father of four, and mental performance coach, Chad shares the single most powerful tool he’s ever learned, the CTFAR self-coaching model and teaches parents how to use it to shift from reactive to intentional.

In What Size Balls Do I Need? Coach Steve Morris delivers a perspective injection for parents and coaches trying to navigate the $17 billion youth sports industry. The pressure to choose programs that will position budding athletes for success and glory can be all-consuming. Using the wisdom gained from navigating thousands of girls and boys and their parents through the gauntlet of youth sports, he has created an audiobook filled with humor and personal stories that tackles crucial topics.

Tres libros en uno: Análisis de fútbol, Maestría en el fútbol y Fútbol de alto rendimiento.

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.

Golfing With Dad is a heartwarming collection of golf's best players' favorite memories with their fathers and how those memories shaped them not only as players but as the men and women they are today. Many professional golfers have been greatly influenced by their fathers, and some of the very best have contributed interviews to this special book, edited by longtime Golf magazine editor David Barrett.

If your organization is not performing at its best, this book is for you. It puts you right into the shoes of the leaders of the great baseball dynasties and demonstrates how they overcame challenges common to those in our own teams and groups. Topics include managing and motivating highly talented but dysfunctional individuals, turning around careers that have stalled late in life, better understanding the practical benefits of diversity and inclusion, and inspiring individuals to find their best within the context of their teams.

In The Mentally Tough Kid, coach and mentor Brent Matthews shares 7 proven strategies to help young athletes thrive under pressure, bounce back from setbacks, and lead with heart. This book delivers practical, down-to-earth tools for parents and coaches who want to raise not just good players—but great teammates and future leaders.

Sport is a lot about sensations. But what does the athlete really feel? How do you feel? How developing sensations play a central role in performance? In Inner Touch, we give you practical exercises that will have immediate impact on your game and ultimately your performance. This book will allow you to get access to more pleasure in the practice of your sport, and quickly. It will give you the keys for developing your technicity, making it more natural, simple, and quicker to master, so that it opens doors to consistency and pleasure of the game, whatever your current level.

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.

This is Your Brain on Sports is the book for sports fans searching for a deeper understanding of the games they watch and the people who play them. Sports Illustrated executive editor and bestselling author L. Jon Wertheim teams up with Tufts psychologist Sam Sommers to take readers on a wild...

A new era of college football demands a new kind of leader. Scholar-Warrior: Manhood, Mission, and the Making of a Leader is a powerful, truth-telling manifesto for the modern student-athlete—and the coaches, mentors, and institutions responsible for their development. In a time when Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL), the transfer portal, and revenue sharing dominate headlines, the mental, emotional, and moral development of young athletes often gets pushed aside. But real leadership doesn’t begin with contracts or endorsements. It begins with character. Written by Dr. Sherman J.

A look at how commercialization has transformed youth sports from fun into a heavily commercialized and profitable venture. Examining the youth sports economy from many sides - the major corporations, the small entrepreneurs, the coaches, the parents, and, of course, the kids - Hyman probes the reasons for rapid changes in what gets bought and sold in this lucrative marketplace. He reveals the effects on kids and profiles the individuals and communities bucking this destructive trend of commercialization.

Building Good Teammates is the story of how a “Mary Poppins-ish” nun inspires Lance Loya to discover an alternative approach to coaching and to explore how his coaching methods were influenced by his unusual childhood and his personal Mount Rushmore - the four men who had the biggest impact on his life. Loya grew up in the iconic Ship Hotel and his adventures in the historic building and the aftermath of the business’s failure caused him to become very calloused and scoped his early coaching style.

Two days before Super Bowl XLI in 2007, the game's two opposing head coaches posed with the trophy one of them would hoist after the contest. It was a fairly unremarkable event, except that both coaches were African American - a fact that was as much of a story as the game itself. As Jeremi Duru reveals in Advancing the Ball, this unique milestone resulted from the work of a determined group of people whose struggles to expand head coaching opportunities for African Americans ultimately changed the National Football League.

Are you a dedicated booster club leader drowning in endless manual tasks? Do you feel trapped by the constant demands of program management or long for a way to create lasting impact without sacrificing your personal life? Imagine transforming your fundraising program in just 90 days—with a revolutionary system that puts automation and efficiency at the heart of your success.

In Beyond Winning, renowned coach and teacher Rick Brail outlines a blueprint for all coaches who want to become a better leader and a true inspiration to their players. Championship coaching goes Beyond Winning and dives into the uncompromising standards, practices, and ideologies of successful high school and college coaches. Beyond Winning will give you insight through a behind-the-scenes look at some of the most successful coaches who can make a difference in their sport.

Wie Sie endlich schnell und erfolgreich Muskeln aufbauen und Ihren Körper auf das nächste Level bringen Sie möchten massiv Muskeln aufbauen und sich den lang ersehnten Traumkörper erschaffen? Sie wollen wissen, welche Fitness-Übungen die wirklich effektivsten für Ihr Vorhaben sind und wie Ernährung Sie dabei am besten unterstützt? Sie hätten gerne feste Vorgaben und konkrete Anleitungen, um diszipliniert am Ball bleiben zu können? Dann haben Sie gerade genau das richtige Buch gefunden.

Brian Moylett, rugby’s leading mindset and performance coach for young players, reveals practical strategies that will make you feel unstoppable and help take you to the next level. Mindset is what holds back so many players and this book is essentially a guide on how you develop the mindset needed to succeed in the game.