Athletics Books

Para mi Mike Mentzer fue una inspiraci?n muy importante a principios de mis 20 a?os, no solo trajo muchas respuestas a las cuestiones del ejercicio, si no tambi?n a cuestiones filos?ficas que aunque parezca raro, maneja en los primeros cap?tulos de su obra maestra. El libro esta muy bien ordenado y explica claramente el porque uno no debe de entrenar como loco todos los d?as 2 o 3 horas para obtener el cuerpo que quiere, basta con trabajar de 20 a 30 minutos 2 veces por semana para obtener buenos resultados. Creelo, si funciona, en lo personal aumente 8 kilos de m?sculo en 1 mes y medio utilizando este sistema. Hazte un favor y lee esta obra que es uno de los mejores escritos sobre musculaci?n que se hallan escrito.

Hey, Coach! Positive Differences You Can Make for Young People in Sports is a solid treatment of concerns faced by coaches, participants, and parents involved in youth sports. From how to deal with parents ready to face off against referees, to preparations for a team game out of town, handling disputes between players or denigrations athletes make toward one another and more, Hey Coach! is a motivational, upbeat resource and instructional. Highly recommended especially for anyone looking to build team spirit in young people.

Nice. It has seperated each component of middle distance running (power, speed, speed endurance, endurance ect.)and given ways to work on each. Some good guidlines.

I found this book to be very helpful. I had read other books about athletic scholarships written by coaches and athletic recruiters. This book was written by a parent, from a parent's point of view, based on his personal experience working with his own kids to obtain scholarships, and he punctuates his advice with real-life examples. It was easy-to-read and offers a wealth of practical advice. The author includes sample web pages, letters, resumes, typical college visit itineraries, and a list of questions for the student to ask the coach or recruiter. I was very impressed with the section on campus crime, useful information that every parent or student should consider when picking a college. The author also includes a unique checklist to rate different colleges in a variety of factors to help the student make an objective decision on where to go to college. The book even includes practical advice on how the propective student should behave during a college visit, with details on table manners and follow-up communications. The author does an excellent job describing the incentives that influence a coach or recruiter and how the student can make his best case for a scholarship. While focusing on athletic scholarships, the author also stresses the real reason for seeking a scholarship....as a means to a good academic education. I recommend this book.

This is a must read for Razorback fans and a super read for football fans. Schroeder did an excellent job of covering the ups and downs of Razorback football. This book was so good that I have bought several for gifts! WOOOO PIG SOOIE!!!

Mr. Calore is my US History II teacher at Acton Boxborough Regional High School. His book is a very good way at looking at diverse workout programs by great high school athletes around the country! This is truly a great and very informative book, by a great teacher.

I was introduced to this amazing book when Pat Williams talked about Coach Wooden at the end of a day long product seminar for Merrill Lynch Financial Advisors. If you ever have a chance to see Pat, he is one of the most intelligent, to-the-point and engaging motivational speakers I've ever seen. My only criticism of his inspiring book is the title: it would have been much simpler to call it "The Coach Wooden Catechism."

For Pat Williams fans, this is one of seven books in his "How To Be Like" series, which profile the virtuous characteristics of winners. A scholar and a gentleman, Coach Wooden himself got it right when he humbly stated, "I'm just an English teacher. Shouldn't I be writing a book about Pat Williams?"

Each chapter expands on the virtues that made Wooden the greatest basketball coach of the 20th Century. So, `if you want to be like Coach Wooden,' be a person of character, love God, love your family and other people. If you want to build knowledge and wisdom like Coach did, strive to be a teacher, learn from the good example of others, and read good books, lots of them. If you want to build winner teams like Coach, work hard to be a team player, be a leader, be disciplined and patient. If you want to be happy in life, strive for humility, master the `little things', keep things simple, be honest with yourself, and remember that in life, we reap what we sow.

Interspersed under each of these chapters are the testimonials of hundreds of sports legends offering their personal observations of the greatness Coach Wooden exemplifies. Where Williams and his co-author David Wimbish deserve great credit is the skill they demonstrate in weaving together these accolades and facts. Williams spoke to over 800 people to prepare this book. In spite of mountain of source material he accumulated, this book is a quick and impressive read. There are dozens of books about Coach Wooden, and many of them are excellent. As the parent of four basketball crazy boys, I strongly recommend this inspiring book for young adults and athletes in any sport.

The contributors to this book have a lot of practical experience in acturally treating the problems they report. The list of contributors reads like a "who's who" of sports medicine. The suggestions for rehabilitation as well as the description of surgical interventions really gives a well rounded approach. I like this book along with the companion field guride. Topics in the book cover the whole spectrum of nutrition, women athletic conditions, evaluation, physical therapy, surgical interventions, returning to competition after injury, peripheral injuries as well as prevention and treatment of spinal injuries. A really good book for physicians, athletic trainers, physical therapists and others interested in knowing more about sports related injury and treatment.

and helpful. this book has taught me so much about food and exercise. i recommend this to all athletes looking to become more astute in their eating habits!

i would like to congratulate Mr.Chelladurai on his fantastic book which has added many theoraticle aspects to my personal experiences. it was a joyful and fruitful reading and i do recomend this book to every single sports personal dealing with human resources in sports era.
Nizar Alaani
university of Bahrain