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An in-depth and surprising look at the game, Sunday Morning Quarterback will dramatically change the way you watch football.
You've heard all the football clichés: "Their offense is too predictable," or "They've got to win the turnover battle," or "They didn't make any halftime adjustments." Perhaps you've heard them so often that you've come to see them as obvious truths. Phil Simms, after an illustrious career as a Super Bowl–winning quarterback...
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Excerpt: "In reverent and affectionate retrospective view of the influences and conditions which had power and made mark upon the settlement of New England, we are apt to affirm with earnest sentiment that religion was the one force, the one aim, the one thought, of the lives of our forbears. It was indeed an ever present thought and influence in their lives; but they possessed another trait which is as evident in their records as their piety, and...
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Zane thinks about little but football until after his second concussion, when his parents say he must take a year off, so when he gets a chance to compete in the Gollywhopper Games he is excited about applying many of the skills that help him excel on the football field to a different kind of competition.
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For novice and experienced netball coaches, coaching 13–16-year-old netballers. 20 Netball Training Sessions fully planned out, in detail, ready for you to coach your team's season with confidence. As well as the training sessions there's insight from Gillian Lee about her thoughts going into the design of each session and how to coach it.
Each training session has activities catering for 60-90 minutes time slots. Each activity has set-up, diagram,...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 I had a teacher who was a mystery to me until I found out he had coached me when I was twelve. I had never thought of him as a coach, but as a teacher. He had a rare ability to enter a child's mind, and he stayed there forever.
#2 The Isidore Newman School is a private school in New Orleans. It was founded in 1903 as a manual training school for Jewish orphans. The...
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The Youth Sports Coaching Guide contains the advice every coach wishes they had been given when they first started. Written by a father of four with coaching experience spanning three decades, the book reads like a down-to-earth conversation with someone who has been in the youth sports coaching trenches. The book covers every aspect of navigating the twenty-first century youth sports coaching arena.
The book travels from the logistics of team selection...
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If you want to achieve peak performance, experience being in the Zone, as well as experience daily joy and continuous improvements in your sport or athletic pursuit, this book is for you! Athlete's Way of Excellence is a revolutionary and holistic approach to sports performance and sports psychology based on 5000-year-old Chinese wisdom. Tobe Hanson's unique coaching style has been noted to be a cross between Tony Robbins and Eckhard Tolle, meaning:...
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This manual contains a collection of 40 fun and exciting netball related games providing coaches and teachers with more variety for training sessions and lessons.
How can I keep my netball team interested and motivated at training?
Answering the question above was the motivating force for us to put together this coaching resource. As coach educators, we are often asked variations of this type of question. From our combined forty plus years coaching...
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Una obra para todos, con un lenguaje de fácil entendimiento , una herramienta tanto para iniciados en el deporte como para profesionales.
Con análisis de los ejercicios, consejos, trucos, curiosidades, anécdotas, etimología y dando un punto de vista diferente a la hora de nombrar los músculos y los ejercicios por su forma o gestos al ejecutarlos.
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Important concepts are best understood by analogies with familiar experiences. When Jesus walked this earth, He taught the people using parables about eating and drinking, farming and fishing, and seeds and treasures.
The author of this book is an old Christian who has devoted his life to teaching and coaching. He here seeks to draw parallels between athletics and the Christian life, thereby offering insight into both.
Topics include hopes and fears,...
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The Character Coach's Playbook is not just a book, it is a tool! With millions of athletes playing today, it is time to coach the coaches about coaching. Very few (Little League through high school) coaches have any training in the arena of character development. Every great coach from Lombardi to Bowden and Osborne to Wooden understood the importance of personal character. Steve and Huey have produced a practical guide to assist and train coaches...
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TOM ANSTETT'S "Stop Whining; Start Winning" encourages honest self-reflection while offering a variety of tips from various angles for teachers and coaches. Sections such as "Inspire," "Communicate," and "Relish" will encourage thought and various emotions.
Whether you are a teacher, coach, parent, or administrator, or just an avid reader in search of a thought-provoking book, "Stop Whining; Start Winning" should find a place on your lap, in your...
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Game Ready unlocks the tools every player, on and off the field, needs to achieve success. Whether your coaching and training athletes or leading a dynamic team in business, Coach Mickey Marley has cleverly distilled the key components for everyday victory into what he calls 52 Takeaways for Winning. Short, concise, and practical, every Takeaway addresses the pitfalls that stand in the way of coaches or leaders creating a successful team. In this...
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If you want to win in sports and in life, you have to show up. Sports have the ability to take us places and provide us with experiences that mimic the heart and soul of what it means to really live. Athletics teach us that we don't have to be born with specific traits and qualities to be successful; rather, we can develop these habits. When we put in the work, the results will come. The small things are often not glamorous and do not come with applause,...
20) The Coaches
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This classic book on coaching has been used as a reference guide for generations of coaches in football, baseball, soccer, gymnastics and swimming. Sports journalist Bill Libby collected wisdom from over 50 different coaches including Vince Lombardi, Bill Russell, Lefty Phillips, Billy Martin, Casey Stengel, Tom Landry, Woody Hayes, Leo Durocher, Bear Bryant, and Red Auerbach. While there are plenty of books that serve as technical manuals to the...
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