Until you’ve consumed all of the best Sports Coaching books, can you even claim to be a true fan?
- Conscious Coaching: The Art and Science of Building Buy-In (2017)
- Successful Coaching (2012)
- Sport Psychology for Youth Coaches: Developing Champions in Sports and Life (2012)
- Teaching Cues for Basic Sport Skills for Elementary and Middle School Students (2001)
- Practical Sports Coaching (2014)
- Teaching Cues for Sport Skills for Secondary School Students (2011)
- Next-Level Coaching: How to Use Sport Psychology to Educate, Motivate, and Improve Student-Athlete Performance (2018)
- A History And Philosophy of Sport and Physical Education: From Ancient Civilizations to the Modern World (2005)
- Essentials of Athletic Injury Management (2012)
- The Ethics of Coaching Sports: Moral, Social and Legal Issues (2013)
- Coaching a Season of Significance (2009)
- Case Studies in Coaching (2010)
- Positive Coaching: Building Character and Self-esteem Through Sports (1995)
Conscious Coaching: The Art and Science of Building Buy-In (2017)
In the world of strength and conditioning, learning how to move others—not just physically, but also psychologically and emotionally—is paramount to getting the most out of them. People are the ultimate performance variable, and understanding how to effectively blend knowledge of proper training with the nuances of human behavior is integral to helping athletes achieve their ultimate goals.
Successful Coaching (2012)
As America’s best-selling coaching text, Successful Coaching has helped over a million coaches develop their coaching philosophies; improve their communication, teaching, and management skills; and understand their responsibilities as a coach. The updated fourth edition of Successful Coaching offers students as well as new and veteran coaches a comprehensive guide to every aspect of coaching.
Sport Psychology for Youth Coaches: Developing Champions in Sports and Life (2012)
Two seasoned sport psychologists help coaches understand the psychology of young athletes and provide guidelines for winning strategies that benefit athletes in sports and life. They cover issues like motivation, leadership behavior, values, life skills development and other topics, enabling coaches to have a lasting positive influence on youth.
Teaching Cues for Basic Sport Skills for Elementary and Middle School Students (2001)
This book provides prospective and in-service physical education teachers with important tools for teaching young people various sport activities using valuable cues that promote student success and enjoyment.
Practical Sports Coaching (2014)
Practical Sports Coaching is a thorough and engaging guide for all sports coaching students and practitioners. Drawing on real-life case studies and examples, the book is designed to develop practical coaching skills and provides readers with the methods and tools they need to become an expert coach.
Teaching Cues for Sport Skills for Secondary School Students (2011)
Teaching Cues for Sport Skills for Secondary School Students, Fifth Edition, helps you learn how to correctly and effectively demonstrate sports skills so that students will remember the skills. This unique and exciting user-friendly text provides students with memorable teaching cues–short, catchy phrases that call the learner’s attention to key components of a skill–for nearly 30 sports and fitness activities.
Next-Level Coaching: How to Use Sport Psychology to Educate, Motivate, and Improve Student-Athlete Performance (2018)
Play your sport, not mind games Ben Loeb has created an actionable guide to implementing sport psychology in team sports, including extensive exercises and self-assessment activities. With seventy-five exercises for coaches and athletes to use upping their game, Next-Level Coaching will give you the competitive edge.
A History And Philosophy of Sport and Physical Education: From Ancient Civilizations to the Modern World (2005)
This engaging and informative text will hold the attention of students and scholars as they take a journey through time to understand the role that history and philosophy have played in shaping the course of sport and physical education in Western and selected non-Western civilizations.
Essentials of Athletic Injury Management (2012)
Essentials of Athletic Injury Management provides the information you need to manage the care of athletic injuries―from prevention, identification and assessment of injuries to interaction with players, parents and physicians. Designed for those beginning careers in coaching, physical education and the fitness profession, this text prepares students to manage injury and emergency situations when an athletic trainer or physician is not available.
The Ethics of Coaching Sports: Moral, Social and Legal Issues (2013)
The Ethics of Coaching Sports features invited contributions written by prominent scholars examining a broad range of normative or evaluative issues that arise from the role of the coach in competitive sports.
Coaching a Season of Significance (2009)
Coaching a Season of Significance was written by a soccer coach for soccer coaches, however, many of the ideas can be utilized by any coach for any sport. The book takes you from the beginning of the season, organization, setting goals, challenges along the way, to the conclusion of the season with a banquet. #3,799,667 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #4090 in Soccer (Books) Would you like to ?If you are a seller for this product, would you like to ?
Case Studies in Coaching (2010)
The nearly two dozen case studies in this timely book will help future and current coaches of school sports develop successful strategies to avoid or overcome challenges and become more aware of the need to remain professional and consider the implications of their actions.
Positive Coaching: Building Character and Self-esteem Through Sports (1995)
Positive Coaching is jam packed with information for coaches in any sport. The book includes over 200 coaching recommendations on specific psychological, motivational, and behavioral situations. There is a special focus on the coach as storyteller — 50 motivational stories can be used to develop strong communication with athletes.
Best Sports Coaching Books: The Ultimate Collection
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'Race', Ethnicity and Racism in Sports Coaching
Author(s): Steven Bradbury, Jim Lusted and Jacco van Sterkenburg
ID: 2952632, Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2021, Size: 3 Mb, Format: pdf
Coaching athletes to be their best : motivational interviewing in sports
Author(s): Breckon, Jeff; Fader, Jonathan S.; Moyers, Theresa B.; Rollnick, Stephen
ID: 2445121, Publisher: The Guilford Press, Year: 2020, Size: 12 Mb, Format: pdf
The Constraints-Led Approach: Principles for Sports Coaching and Practice Design
Author(s): Ian Renshaw; Keith Davids; Daniel Newcombe; Will Roberts
ID: 2461201, Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2019, Size: 3 Mb, Format: epub
Please note that this booklist is not definite. Some books are really record-breakers according to The Wall Street Journal, others are composed by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant books you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.