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Season of Life: A Football Star, a Boy, a Journey to Manhood  Joe Ehrmann, a former NFL football star and volunteer coach for the Gilman high school football team, teaches his players the keys to successful defense: penetrate, pursue, punish, love. Love? A former captain of the Baltimore Colts and now an ordained minister, Ehrmann is serious about the game of football but even more serious about the purpose of life. Season of Life is his inspirational story as told by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jeffrey Marx, who was a ballboy for the Colts when he first met Ehrmann.Ehrmann now devotes his life to teaching young men a whole new meaning of masculinity. He teaches the boys at Gilman the precepts of his Building Men for Others program: Being a man means emphasizing relationships and having a cause bigger than yourself. It means accepting responsibility and leading courageously. It means that empathy, integrity, and living a life of service to others are more important than points on a scoreboard. Decades after he first met Ehrmann, Jeffrey Marx renewed their friendship and watched his childhood hero putting his principles into action. While chronicling a season with the Gilman Greyhounds, Marx witnessed the most extraordinary sports program he'd ever seen, where players say "I love you" to each other and coaches profess their love for their players. Off the field Marx sat with Ehrmann and absorbed life lessons that led him to reexamine his own unresolved relationship with his father. Season of Life is a book about what it means to be a man of substance and impact. It is a moving story that will resonate with athletes, coaches, parents -- anyone struggling to make the right choices in life.
Great Soccer Drills : The Baffled Parent's Guide  A PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A games-based alternative to tedious rote exercises, guaranteed to keep practices fun, engaging, and productive Great Soccer Drills provides soccer coaches with a great way to make every soccer practice active, fun, and productive. Coaches get 125 games guaranteed to keep kids moving and excited while teaching them basic skills, sharpening their reflexes, and building their confidence and decision-making ability. Written by two of North America's foremost names in youth soccer coaching, it also includes guidelines on how to create just the right blend of drills to hold the attention of six- to twelve-year-old players. Great Soccer Drills can be used in conjunction with the bestselling Coaching Youth Soccer: A Baffled Parent's Guide or as an excellent stand-alone resource for spicing up any practice. Author: Thomas Fleck, Ronald W. Quinn Paperback: 144 pages Company: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press (2002-06-25) ISBN: 007138488X List Price: $16.95 Amazon Price: $8.82 Used Price: $6.80 Successful Coaching: America's Best Selling Coach's Guide  Much is expected of you as a coach. On any given day, you may play the role of educator, physiologist, business executive, and psychologist—and that's before you even step on the field. With Successful Coaching, you'll expand your knowledge of every facet of the coaching profession and emerge a more complete coach. Grounded in the principles of coaching, behavior, teaching, physical training, and management, Successful Coaching provides a unique blend of the latest sport science research and the hands-on experience and best practices of highly experienced coaches. It's an insightful, practical, and relied-on resource that you're sure to find more valuable than your playbook. With more than 500,000 copies sold since the release of the first edition, Successful Coaching is the best-selling coaching methods book ever published. Produced by the American Sport Education Program (ASEP) and written by ASEP founder Rainer Martens, Successful Coaching serves as the text for ASEP's Coaching Principles course, which, along with the Sport First Aid and Coaching Technical and Tactical Skills courses, make up the curriculum for ASEP's Bronze Level coaching certification program. Bronze Level courses have been adopted by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) as part of the NFHS Coaches Education Program, used by 35 state high school associations in certifying high school coaches. Successful Coaching, Third Edition, was reviewed by the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) and the National Council for Accreditation of Coaching Education (NCACE) and complies with the NASPE National Standards for Sport Coaches and the NCACE Guidelines for Accreditation of Coaching Education. Mind Gym : An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence  Drawing on his work with some of the top teams in professional sports, noted sport psychology consultant Gary Mack shares with you the same techniques and exercises he uses to help elite athletes build mental "muscle." These 40 accessible lessons and inspirational anecdotes will help you gain the "head edge" over the competition. Author: Gary Mack, David Casstevens Paperback: 240 pages Company: McGraw-Hill (2002-06-03) ISBN: 0071395970 List Price: $16.95 Amazon Price: $8.28 Used Price: $7.26 Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, & Priorities of a Winning Life  Tony Dungy's words and example have intrigued millions of people, particularly following his victory in Super Bowl XLI, the first for an African American coach. How is it possible for a coach--especially a football coach--to win the respect of his players and lead them to the Super Bowl without the screaming histrionics, the profanities, the demand that the sport come before anything else? How is it possible for anyone to be successful without compromising faith and family? In this inspiring and reflective memoir, Coach Dungy tells the story of a life lived for God and family--and challenges us all to redefine our ideas of what it means to succeed. Includes a foreword by Denzel Washington and a 16-page color photo insert.Author: Tony Dungy, Nathan Whitaker Hardcover: 301 pages Company: Tyndale (2007-07-10) (2007-07-10) ISBN: 1414318014 List Price: $26.99 Amazon Price: $7.69 Used Price: $6.07 Runner's World Run Less, Run Faster: Become a Faster, Stronger Runner with the Revolutionary FIRST Training Program (Runners World)  Finally, runners at all levels can improve their race times while training less, with the revolutionary Furman Institute of Running and Scientific Training (FIRST) program. Hailed by the Wall Street Journal and featured twice in six months in cover stories in Runner’s World magazine, FIRST’s unique training philosophy makes running easier and more accessible, limits overtraining and burnout, and substantially cuts the risk of injury, while producing faster race times. The key feature is the "3 plus 2" program, which each week consists of: -3 quality runs, including track repeats, the tempo run, and the long run, which are designed to work together to improve endurance, lactate-threshold running pace, and leg speed -2 aerobic cross-training workouts, such as swimming, rowing, or pedaling a stationary bike, which are designed to improve endurance while helping to avoid burnout With detailed training plans for 5K, 10K, half marathon, and marathon, plus tips for goal-setting, rest, recovery, injury rehab and prevention, strength training, and nutrition, this program will change the way runners think about and train for competitive races. Amby Burfoot, Runner’s World executive editor and Boston Marathon winner, calls the FIRST training program "the most detailed, well-organized, and scientific training program for runners that I have ever seen." Author: Bill Pierce, Scott Murr, Ray Moss Paperback: 272 pages Company: Rodale Books (2007-05-15) (2007-05-15) ISBN: 159486649X List Price: $16.95 Amazon Price: $8.11 Used Price: $10.76 The Baffled Parent's Guide to Coaching Youth Soccer  Written by soccer great and championship Stanford coach Bobby Clark, COACHING YOUTH SOCCER: THE BAFFLED PARENT'S GUIDE tells you how, starting at point zero, an uninitiated coach can meld kids into a team and help them enjoy one of the most rewarding experiences of their youth. (In the end, you may be the one who reaps the biggest reward, as you watch kids learn and grow in an experience they'll treasure for a lifetime.)Author: Bobby Clark Paperback: 160 pages Company: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press (1999-07-19) ISBN: 0071346082 List Price: $16.95 Amazon Price: $8.20 Used Price: $4.95 Training for Speed, Agility, and Quickness: Special Book/DVD Package  Paperback: 255 pages Company: Human Kinetics Publishers (2005-08-15) ISBN: 0736058737 List Price: $21.95 Amazon Price: $13.88 Used Price: $13.98 The Triathlete's Training Bible (2nd Edition)  This new edition of The Triathlete's Training Bible covers all of the specialized training needs of triathletes, including completely updated nutrition, recovery, and weight training information. The book also contains seasoned advice on the mental aspects of training. Author Joe Friel shows how to achieve greater fitness by examining personal strengths and weaknesses, and devotes individual chapters to planning, racing, rest, and recovery. Appendices include annual training plan worksheets and suggested swim, bike, run, and combined workouts. Author: Joe Friel Paperback: 368 pages Company: VeloPress (2004-02-09) ISBN: 1931382425 List Price: $22.95 Amazon Price: $13.59 Used Price: $13.65 Co-Active Coaching, 2nd Edition: New Skills for Coaching People Toward Success in Work and, Life  A newly revised edition of the book that helped define the coaching profession, Co-Active Coaching captures the essence of what it takes to design and maintain successful, collaborative, and empowering coaching relationships. The authors describe in detail their flexible and adaptive model-placing the client's agenda at the heart of the coaching partnership, define the skills required for success, provide dozens of sample coaching conversations, and a power-packed Coach's Toolkit of over 35 exercises, questionnaires, checklists, and forms to make these proven principles and techniques eminently practical and immediately actionable.Author: Laura Whitworth, Karen Kimsey-House, Henry Kimsey-House, Phillip Sandahl Paperback: 336 pages Company: Davies-Black Publishing (2007-02-25) ISBN: 0891061983 List Price: $39.95 Amazon Price: $22.38 Used Price: $24.94 |