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Amazon.com Books: coaching track field
This comprehensive, practical resource provides practical tools for building effective programs and winning teams. Written by a coach with over 30 years' experience, the Guide provides tested techniques and strategies with scores of drawings and photos. Over 100 reproducible letters, forms, diagrams, and training schedules are also included.Author: Edward L. Wallace Spiral-bound: 402 pages Company: Parker Publishing Company (1997-11) ISBN: 0136165095 List Price: $32.95 Amazon Price: $22.84 Used Price: $18.52 Author: Fred Wilt, Tom Ecker
Hardcover: 350 pages Company: Prentice Hall (1970-06-26) ISBN: 0134736451 List Price: Amazon Price: $80.83 Used Price: $2.35 
When it comes to building a top-notch track and field program, performance is only part of the picture. From training and motivation on the field to planning and organizing behind the scenes, Coaching Track & Field Successfully offers a comprehensive guide to getting your program up to speed. Season planning. Event coaching. Meet preparation. Postmeet analysis. Athlete–coach communication. This book covers all the issues a coach must effectively address in building and maintaining a championship program. How do you motivate players? What's your philosophy of coaching? How can you communicate your vision to athletes, parents, and critical members of the coaching team? With Coaching Track & Field Successfully, you'll learn all of that and much more from someone who's been through it all. Since 1986 Mark Guthrie has coached the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse teams to 17 Division III national championships. Before that he was a high school coach with the skill, insight, and drive to lead his school to three consecutive state cross country championship victories. Now he presents proven techniques to pack more power into your program. Guthrie teaches the essential techniques of the sport, provides simple training programs, and presents a wealth of vital information required for building a quality team. His teaching progressions, event-specific technical instruction, and tips on planning for big events make Coaching Track & Field Successfully the critical resource coaches need to take their teams to the top. Author: Mark Guthrie Paperback: 224 pages Company: Human Kinetics (2003-02-27) ISBN: 0736042741 List Price: $26.95 Amazon Price: $16.89 Used Price: $10.24 
Coaching Youth Track & Field stresses fun, safety, and effective instruction, helping you create an environment that promotes learning, encourages a love of the sport, and motivates your athletes to come out year after year. Numerous coaching books present the skills, drills, and activities of track and field. But here's a book that teaches you how to convey those skills to your athletes in an engaging and positive manner. Written by the American Sport Education Program (ASEP) in conjunction with Matt Lydum and other experts from Hershey's Track & Field Games and USA Track & Field (USATF), Coaching Youth Track & Field is the only resource available today aimed at coaches of athletes ages 14 and under. Coaching Youth Track & Field includes the following: -Activities specifically designed for young track and field athletes Coaching Youth Track & Field's 73 activities and 32 age-specific coaching tips are sure to jump-start your planning and practices and help you overcome any hurdle encountered during the season. Plus, sequenced and specific chapters help you learn, retain, and reference in a flash. Endorsed by USATF and named the official handbook of Hershey's Track & Field Games, this book a must-read as you prepare to meet the challenges and enjoy the rewards of coaching young athletes. Author: American Sport Education Program Paperback: 232 pages Company: Human Kinetics (2008-01-02) ISBN: 0736069143 List Price: $18.95 Amazon Price: $12.07 Used Price: $7.95 
High-Performance Training for Track and Field by legendary coaches and authors Bill Bowerman and Bill Freeman is a step-by-step guide for teacher-coaches at all levels. Coaches in their first years will find it to be a model for success, and experienced coaches will find its systematic analyses of training methods an invaluable addition to their own expertise. This book adds the theoretical bases that underlie training, summarizing what researchers know about training and competition and discussing the most advanced, scientifically monitored, foreign endurance training system in the world today. It tells, briefly and simply, what you need to know about periodization in training, overload theory, and the effects of nutrition and psychology on today s training. The training patterns reflect the very latest scientific training methods. Chapters include: The Essentials of Scientific Training, The Oregon School of Running, Sprints, Hurdles, and Relays, The Jumps, The Throws, The All-Around Athlete, and Directing Track and Field Programs.Author: Bill Bowerman, Bill Freeman Paperback: 568 pages Company: Coaches Choice (2008-12-09) ISBN: 1606790315 List Price: $44.95 Amazon Price: $29.67 Used Price: $35.95 
The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Track and Field is the most comprehensive and up-to-date track and field-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round track and field-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results. Athletes of all events, from sprinting to shot put, have used and benefited from the information in this text. No other track and field book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book will have all types of track & field athletes increasing speed, flexibility, power, strength, and endurance unlike any book before it. No longer will you find yourself becoming tired at the end of an event or losing distance on javelin or discus throws due to fatigue. By following this program you will eclipse your previous records and eliminate unnecessary injuries. Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too! As an added bonus, this book also contains links to free record keeping charts which normally sell separately for $20. Author: Kenneth Foreman Foreman
Paperback: 288 pages Company: William C Brown Pub (1982-03) ISBN: 0697071871 List Price: $29.65 Amazon Price: $146.42 Used Price: $1.72 Author: Roy Maratta
Hardcover: 224 pages Company: Parker Publishing Company, Inc. (1981) ISBN: 0132202026 List Price: Amazon Price: Used Price: $0.01 
Author: Vern GambettaPaperback: 208 pages Company: Human Kinetics (1987-02) ISBN: 091843873X List Price: Amazon Price: $35.88 Used Price: $0.24 The Athletics Congress's Track and Field Coaching Manual features the latest in techniques and coaching principles. Over 50 of TAC's Development Committee members, all master coaches and trainers, have contributed their expertise. The principles in this manual can be applied to help athletes at every level improve their track and field performances. The manual is designed for high school settings, but every coach from college level to youth sport will want this updated edition of the ultimate track and field coaching handbook. Use The Athletics Congress's Track and Field Coaching Manual to enhance athletes' knowledge of proper form and mechanics, to plan training sessions, and to learn the particulars for hosting competition.
Journal: 227 pages Company: Human Kinetics Publishers (1989-06) ISBN: 0880113324 List Price: $22.00 Amazon Price: Used Price: $1.00 |
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| See also: Coaching Baseball, Coaching Basketball, Coaching College Sports, Coaching Football, Coaching High School Sports, Coaching Hockey, Coaching Ski Teams, Coaching Swimming, Coaching Track and Field |
