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Good Sports: The Concerned Parent's Guide to Competitive Youth Sports
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Author Rick Wolff has written this book to help parents and coaches avoid the pitfalls surrounding the increasingly competitive environment of youth sports while helping children enjoy a positive, challenging and educational sports experience.
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Winning the Mental Way: A Practical Guide to Team Building and Mental Training - by Karlene Sugarman, Karlene A Sugarman
Ever wonder why you play great one day and terrible the next? Did your physical ability change? No likely, but your mental game was probably different. Your mindset and mental preparation can be the difference between winning and losing. This book will help arm you and your team so you can reach an optimal level of play and be successful in the competitive world of sports.
Whether you are a recreational athlete, little league coach, high school player, professional coach or top executive, Winning the Mental Way provides the tools necessary to help you achieve peak performance on a more consistent basis. No matter what your endeavors are, the goal is the same - peak performance.
The mind plays such an important role in whether you will be successful or not. This practical guide will help you first develop a sound working team; and second, give you the skills to keep your team on its road to success.

A Practical Approach to Strength Training
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Masters Pr - Paperback - 249 pages 3rd edition (June 1995) With over 20,000 copies in print, this book has become a staple in weight rooms across the country. Now, Brzycki, the strength and conditioning coach at Princeton, has updated his best selling guide to improve muscular strength and conditioning. With new photos and information on the latest equipment and workout techniques, this edition will be around for many years to come.
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Teaching Basic Gymnastics: A Coeducational Approach
by Phyllis S. Cooper, Milan Trnka, A. Bruse Frederick
Paperback
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307 pages 3Rd/spiral edition (November 1993)
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Athletic Training and Sports Medicine
Hardcover - 925 pages 3rd edition (August 15, 1999) Univ. of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Textbook discussing basic concepts, the athletic healthcare system, regional pathology, medical issues, and special athlete populations. Two-tone format with halftone illustrations. For students.
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Coach: A Treasury of Inspiration and Laughter
An ideal book for the more than two million coaches involved in youth sports. Jess Brallier and Sally Chabert have assembled a unique collection of quotations and observations that coaches of any sport can use to inspire, amuse, and instruct their teams. These thought-provoking quotes and observations are drawn not only from great coaches and managers like Vince Lombardi, John Wooden, Casey Stengel, and Phil Jackson, but from a wide variety of other sports personalities and non-sports notables as well. They are conveniently grouped in three main sections that reflect the rhythm of a coach's season: Preparation, Competition, and After the Game.
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What Makes Winners Win: Over 100 Athletes, Coaches, and Managers Tell You the Secrets of Success by Charlie Jones, Frank Deford
All great athletes have an almost superhuman ability to excel under incredible pressure--the 98-yard touchdown drive with no time-outs remaining; the 40-foot eagle putt at the 18th hole. How do they do it? What Makes Winners Win reveals success secrets from over 100 great men and women in sports, including Bruce Jenner, Chris Evert, and Pat Riley, all of whom shared their personal experiences with veteran sportscaster Charlie Jones. Interspersed with eye-opening quotations from winners such as Tiger Woods, Mary Lou Retton, Greg Louganis, and Earvin "Magic" Johnson, What Makes Winners Win brims with advice on assessing the competition, coping with jitters, confronting life-threatening situations, entering the concentration "zone," and keeping your cool during the unexpected. Complemented by recollections from Jones's remarkable career, What Makes Winners Win trains us for excellence in every aspect of life.
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Teaching Children Gymnastics: Becoming a Master Teacher
Peter H. Werner / Paperback / Published 1994
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Peter Werner has more than 30 years' experience as a student and teacher of gymnastics. His background in Olympic and educational gymnastics provides him with an excellent developmental perspective to teaching gymnastics. Peter earned his PED in physical education from Indiana University in 1971. He spent 6 months in 1987 at the University of Loughborough in England studying educational gymnastics. Peter teaches educational gymnastics and elementary physical education methods courses at the University of South Carolina, and he regularly spends time in the public schools teaching elementary physical education.

Gymnastics Safety Manual: The Official Manual of the United States Gymnastics Safety Association
Eugene Wettstone (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1980
147 pages (Special Order)
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Coaching Kids: Practical Tips for Effective Communication
Jim Ward, Ruth McRoberts Ward / Paperback 144 pages
The most exasperating, important, difficult, thankless, yet fulfilling assignment in life is parenting. Coaching Kids is a guide to creating and maintaining harmonious communication with children when they are very small and lasting throughout their adult years when they are parents themselves.
Excellent parenting is not a substitute, but merely a launching pad for children to develop their own true identity. The authors present to young parents, single parents, grandparents, teachers, and caregivers the importance of understanding who kids are and aren't for everyone's good. With this understanding in mind, the book guides readers toward diplomatic dialogue and how to blend effectively several different personalities in a family setting.
Paperback - (February 1999)
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Catastrophic Injuries in High School and College Sports (Hk Sport Science Monograph Series, V. 8)
Frederick O. Mueller, et al / Paperback / Published 1996
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Discusses the results of a 10-year study of serious injury among young athletes, providing recommendations for reducing catastrophic injuries, preventing deaths, and making sports programs safer. Reviews the etiology and types of head and spine injuries, and lists the incidence and reduction of injuries and fatalities in football, team sports, and individual sports, including gymnastics, swimming, and cheerleading. Includes general guidelines as well as sport-specific recommendations for injury prevention.

Teaching Tumbling
Phillip Ward / Paperback / Published 1996 - 152 pages
This book was used as a reference in writing our school districts elementary tumbling unit. The skills are well illustrated and each stunt is clearly defined. For the novice teacher this manual includes lessons which are arranged into 4 parts-warm-up, assessment and review, intro of new skills and closure. For the more experienced teacher the Tumbling Principles and Skills section offers hints for instruction and a wide variety of ideas.

Coaching the Female Gymnast
Sandra J. Hatley-O'Brien / Spiral-bound / Published 1983
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Combining theoretical knowledge with direct practical application, this text provides the teacher/coach with a highly organized, progressive approach to instructing gymnastics. Initial chapters discuss the physical profile of the female gymnast, talent identification, and health and safety. The author then presents a comprehensive program of conditioning exercises. Principles of training and performance standards are detailed, and coaching strategies for training and competition are provided. A final chapter examines judging as an evaluative process. The text is augmented by numerous illustrations.

USA Trampoline & Tumbling: Coaching the Fundamentals
by Tim Schlosser
Paperback (January 1997) 128 pages
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Warm-Up and Preparation for Athletes of All Sports: A Complete Book of Warm-Up and Flexibility Exercises
Zoltan Tenke, Andy Higgins / Paperback / Published 1994
A warm-up routine prepares the athlete for more intense movements requiring speed and strength. It is designed to gradually adjust his/her organism to more effectively cope with relatively high physical demands. Therefore, an adequate warm-up is important for all athletic activities, whether it be a training session or a competition.
In any athletic activity, it is important to gradually increase the intensity of effort, so that the gradually prepared organism is less susceptible to injury of muscles and related tissue, and capable of much higher levels of performance.
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Feel No Fear: The Power, Passion, and Politics of a Life in Gymnastics
Bela Karolyi, Nancy Ann Richardson / Paperback / Published 1996
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The coach behind gymnastics legends Nadia Comaneci and Mary Lou Retton, Karolyi also discusses his painful decision to defect to the U.S. from Romania.
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Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others
James Flaherty / Paperback / Published 1998
Coaching is based on the premise we must understand people before we can coach them. Flaherty asks fundamental questions rather than supply easy to apply tips and surface bandaids. Coaching is not telling people what to do; it's giving them a chance to examine what they are doing in the light of their intentions. A coach is someone who builds a respectful relationship with a client and then researches the situations the client finds himself in, with particular emphasis on the client's interpretation of the events. Then, in partnership with the client, the coach can work to altering actions to bring about expected outcomes. This book provides the language and operative principles and assessment models and sample coaching conversations necessary to do that.
The book is grounded in many different paths of wisdom including time-tested philosophies, sociological premises and psychological discussions. Chapter bibliographies encourage further interdisciplinary reading. Average Customer Review: