Sports Coaching Books
You are currently browsing 1–10 of 81 new and published books in the subject of Sports Coaching — sorted by publish date from newer books to older books.
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You are currently browsing 1–10 of 81 new and published books in the subject of Sports Coaching — sorted by publish date from newer books to older books.
For books that are not yet published; please browse forthcoming books.
Series: Routledge Research in Sport and Exercise Science
Complexity and Control in Team Sports is the first book to apply complex systems theory to ‘soccer-like’ team games (including basketball, handball and hockey) and to present a framework for understanding and managing the elite sports team as a multi-level complex system. Conventional...
Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
An Introduction to Sports Coaching provides students with an accessible and engaging guide to the scientific, social scientific, medical and pedagogical theory that underlies the practice of quality sports coaching. Now in a fully updated and revised second edition, it introduces students to the...
Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Sport and Exercise Science
The pursuit of excellence in sport depends on four key facets of performance, namely physical, technical, tactical and mental skills. However, when physical, technical and tactical skills are evenly matched, a common occurrence at elite level, it is the performer with greater levels of mental...
Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
How can we predict the trajectory of a baseball from bat to outfield? How do the dimples in a golf ball influence its flight from tee to pin? What forces determine the path of a soccer ball steered over a defensive wall by an elite player? An understanding of the physical processes involved in...
Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Sport performance analysis techniques help coaches, athletes and sport scientists develop an objective understanding of actual sport performance, as opposed to self-report, fitness tests or laboratory based experiments. For example, contemporary performance analysis enables elite sports people and...
Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport
To understand and more creatively capture the social world, visual methods have increasingly become used by researchers in the social sciences and education. However, despite the rapid development of visual-based knowledge, and despite the obvious links between human movement and visual forms of...
Published February 4th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Over the last three decades sports coaching has evolved from a set of customary practices based largely on tradition and routine into a sophisticated, reflective and multi-disciplinary profession. In parallel with this, coach education and coaching studies within higher education have developed...
Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Foundations of Sport Management
How can managers design and implement effective high performance programmes in sport? What are the key challenges in managing elite athletes, sports people and teams? This is the first book to provide a comprehensive introduction to management practice, process and policy in elite and high...
Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport
In the past two decades, complexity thinking has emerged as an important theoretical response to the limitations of orthodox ways of understanding educational phenomena. Complexity provides ways of understanding that embrace uncertainty, non-linearity and the inevitable ‘messiness’ that is...
Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, Science and Soccer is still the most comprehensive and accessible introduction to the physiology, biomechanics and psychology behind the world's most popular sport. Offering important guidance on how science translates into practice, the book...
Published December 2nd 2012 by Routledge