Athletics Books

Very good youth coaching book. Well worth the purchase price. After reading this book you will be able to coach children well.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Developing A Coaching Philosophy

Chapter 1 Your Coaching Objectives
Chapter 2 Your Coaching Style

Part 2 Sport Psychology

Chapter 3 Evaluating Your Communication Skills
Chapter 4 Developing Your Communication Skills
Chapter 5 Principles of Reinforcement
Chapter 6 Understanding Motivation

Part 3 Sport Pedagogy

Chapter 7 Preseason Planning
Chapter 8 Preparing Your Instructional Outline for the Season
Chapter 9 Preparing for a Practice
Chapter 10 Teaching Sports Skills

Part 4 Sport Physiology

Chapter 11 Principles of Training
Chapter 12 Developing Your training Program
Chapter 13 Nutrition for Young Athletes

Part 5 Sports Medicine

Chapter 14 Injury Prevention
chapter 15 First Aid for Athletic Injuries
Chapter 16 rehabilitation of Sports Injuries

Part 6 Other Useful information

Chapter 17 You and the Law
Chapter 18 A Parent Orientation Program

FOREWARD from the book
An estimated 12 to 15 millions young athletes participate in organized youth sports in the United States. As a group these young people represent one of our country's most important resources. as individuals they are their parents' most valued possessions.

Yet all too often we as sport adminisatrors and parents casually entrust our sons and daughters to men and women who, as research has shown, have tremendous impact on our children's lives. the ramifications of this practice have come to haunt youth sports programs over the last decade. Now, as never before, there is an outcry for trained, competent coaches of youth sports.

Filling the void of meaningful educational materials for coaches, parents, and sport administrators is Coaching Young Athlete. This book written by four of the country's leading experts in sport psychology, sport physiology, sport pedagogy, sports medicine, and sport administration, ivites your reading. Coaching Young Athletes is a must for all concerned about young people and sport in our country today.

We all knew kids like Morgan Brenner back in school: you'd say, "Hey, let's make a skateboard!" and a year later a fully-restored '56 Chevy was sitting in the driveway.

The genesis of College Basketball's National Championships must have been something like that: Maybe the original goal was a compilation of NCAA title tournaments or somesuch. Four years and a thousand pages later, however, what Brenner ended up putting together was a definitive compendium of every tournament ever conducted by the eight national athletic associations, with every non-association tournament thrown in for good measure.

This volume is a college b-ball lover's dream. You can do your own color commentary if you have it at your elbow, as every sportscaster is sure to. Its thoroughness is dazzling: Brenner even took pains to resolve confusion involving school names - changes, mergers, common usages - and provided a cross-reference in an appendix ("If you're looking for School [a], try School [b]..."). You can also test your knowledge with "Tournament Trivia:" Which school was the first women's collegiate national champion? Which tournament participant had the fewest wins in a season?

It's a pricey tome at $98.50 (Amazon.com) but look at it this way: it effectively replaces a whole shelf of lesser reference works costing many times that. If you're a true lover of the game and its history, this is the one book you want to have.

By the way, the first women's collegiate national champion was West Chester in 1969, in the invitational IAIW (page 1,027). Fewest wins in a season? Bay Ridge Christian in 1997, with zip.

The book is very informative, well organized data, and makes for a great reference guide to College Football.

"The College Hockey Guide is a "must have" for high school coaches and players interested in going to college and playing hockey. It is filled with up-to-date and useful information regarding all of the college hockey programs in our country. The book offers information on the who, what, where, when and why of recruiting and being noticed. This book is as good as it gets."

Ever wondered why in the world a college calls their athletes their particular nickname? With this book you will never wonder again! In this well-reasearched guide, Lessiter "left no stone unturned" and spoke with the Sports Information folks at every single Division I school to find out about the orign of each school's nickname(s). Small school or large, perpetual top 25 ranked team or cellar-dweller, they are all here for your reference and enlightenment. Several enjoyable drawings are sprinkled throughout the text.

I discovered this book while in college. I was a non-dairy vegetarian stuck in the mid west in a time when being concerned with ones health seemed kooky! To make matters worse I was a walk on the track and field team and an 800m runner. When I got the book I had hit a wall in my performance. The book was comprehensive, easy to read (I read it front to back) and everything seemed to make good sense. I tried the suggestions and found an almost immediate improvement in my energy levels mood and performance. My last 2 years of collage post reading this book I was placed on athletic scholarship and doing very well. The recipes in the book aside from juicing and protein shakes are very bland and I would suggest getting a cookbook or checking the web. Especially useful is the section on vitamins and minerals their uses and suggested amounts and forms for athletes. Workout planning is also quite compressive. The book is also good for those not involved in any sports.

I am a 24 year old former collegiate golfer, and this book is probably one of the best I have read for golf specific training. The exercises are described well and the workouts are easy to follow. There is also a nutrition section which talks about how to be healthier day to day as well as what to eat pre / during a round. For anyone looking to increase flexibility, strength, power, eat better, prevent injury, this book is a must.

Just a side note, but the movement prep sequence for the workouts / pre round are worth the price of this book itself. I will never workout or play golf again without completing the Movement Prep beforehand, it is the best stretching / warm up routine I have seen.

I highly recommend this book.

This book offers the Athletic Training and other Sports Medicine Professionals good advice when working with athletes who need guidance. It is not easy to educate and counsel athletes. Too often athletes hear only what they want and not what they need to hear. Since athletes are highly motivated to achieve success in competition, they tend to focus on their problems and how it affect them, not others.

Athletes have multiple problems, just like the rest of the population, the difference is, that most will try to work on their issues if they are identified and given strategies that work. Ray and Wiese-Bjornstal do a good job of presenting problems and solutions. They have identified the sound techniques and theories that work in the counseling arena.

The authors are quick to point out the dangers of uneducated counseling and the warning signs of potential serious disorders. It is fair to assume that the reader should have some understanding of basic psychology, and human behavior.

The reader should also understand sport and the different circumstances it presents to daily living.

I have been a professional in Athletic Training for over 30 years and found the text to be very helpful. It is succint and to the point but also in detail and complete on the topics discussed. I highly reccomend the text for the Sports Medicine Professional.

After having my fair share of running injuries, it was great to read this book. It explains what the causes and solutions of running injuries are, simply put. There are places in which it gets a bit technical, but only because it is necessary.

It also contains most of the major injuries and stories of common runners and their injuries.

Highly recommended.

I had a chance to meet the doctor who wrote this book (by coincidence!) and he was absolutely amazing with his diagnoses.