USA Track & Field Coaching Manual Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a great Track and Field Coaching Manual. It covers everything Track and Field. This is a manual that every coach should start with. It has very good relay techniques and philosophy as well. I wish that the book cover information on how to best help an athlete recover after races to get ready for additional races that day, or a race on the following day.

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The USA Track & Field Coaching Manual is the official coaching guide of the sport's national governing body. The manual covers every major event and includes comprehensive, ready-to-apply information from 33 world-class coaches and experts. Included among the valuable materials are• proven predictive testing procedures,• detailed event-specific technique instruction,• carefully crafted training programs, and • preparation and performance tactics for success in competition.Contributing authors to the USA Track & Field Coaching Manual have worked with national, world, and Olympic champions. Each is an event-specific expert who has demonstrated the effective use of coaching art and science to train and inspire their athletes to achieve maximum performance. The USA Track & Field Coaching Manual is an essential part of any serious track and field coach's library.

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Coaching Youth Track & Field Review

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(More customer reviews)the book is very helpful with technique and attitude. we carry it with us in our coach bag

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Coaching Youth Track & Field stresses fun, safety, and effective instruction, helping you create an environment that promotes learning, encourages a love of the sport, and motivates your athletes to come out year after year. Numerous coaching books present the skills, drills, and activities of track and field. But here's a book that teaches you how to convey those skills to your athletes in an engaging and positive manner. Written by the American Sport Education Program (ASEP) in conjunction with Matt Lydum and other experts from Hershey's Track & Field Games and USA Track & Field (USATF), Coaching Youth Track & Field is the only resource available today aimed at coaches of athletes ages 14 and under.Coaching Youth Track & Field includes the following:
Activities specifically designed for young track and field athletes
Fundamentals of all of the events in track and field (USATF and Hershey's Track and Field Games)
Coaching Youth Track & Field's 73 activities and 32 age-specific coaching tips are sure to jump-start your planning and practices and help you overcome any hurdle encountered during the season. Plus, sequenced and specific chapters help you learn, retain, and reference in a flash.Endorsed by USATF and named the official handbook of Hershey's Track & Field Games, this book is a must-read as you prepare to meet the challenges and enjoy the rewards of coaching young athletes.

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Complete Book of Jumps Review

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(More customer reviews)I was happily suprised by this book. I'm used to seeing general track and field books or "specialized" books that are nothing of the sort. This book, however, is wonderful. It covers all aspects of the long, triple, high and pole vault jumping events, form the first training day to the approach to the landing to the last day of season. In fact, it gives a comprehensive training plan for the whole year. Plus, "The Complete Book of Jumps" gives really good, clear explanation, complete with illustrations, of each of the jumps. It's definitely worth the money and the read, even for half the information it has!

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Maximize your jumping potential with Complete Book of Jumps!Coaches Ed Jacoby and Bob Fraley draw on their combined 60 years of coaching experience to help long jumpers, triple jumpers, high jumpers, and pole vaulters achieve new personal records. They break down each event into key phases--from approach to landing--to teach proper jumping technique and to show jumpers how to avoid common technical flaws. They also provide a strength and development program specifically for jumpers and 16 event-specific workouts that fine-tune skills.Use the practical, proven techniques in Complete Book of Jumps to go higher and farther than the competition.

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Coaching Track & Field Successfully (Coaching Successfully Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)Great book for any track coach, new or old! This book explains more than just the basics!

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Building and maintaining a successful track and field program doesn't happen by chance. And one book is the best bet for making it happen. From planning, organizing, training, and motivating, Coaching Track & Field Successfully offers a comprehensive guide to conducting a winning program.Season planning. Event coaching. Meet preparation. Postmeet analysis. Athlete–coach communication. This book covers all the issues a coach must effectively address in building and maintaining a championship program. Coaching Track & Field Successfully offers coaches a special look from inside one of the winningest programs in sport, the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, which has claimed 15 Division III national championships since 1986.Guthrie teaches the essential techniques of the sport, provides simple training programs, and presents a wealth of vital information needed to build a high-caliber team. His teaching progressions, event-specific technical instruction and tips on planning for big events make Coaching Track & Field Successfully the critical resource coaches need to take their teams to the top.

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Fundamentals of Track and Field, Second Edition Review

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(More customer reviews)I was happy with this book as soon as I opened the front cover. I am a new track coach who "only has a clue" about track from what I have observed from my star athlete daughter. I am pleased with this book because it has a lot of drawings which show good form in executing running, throwing, and jumping events. It is the perfect book for elementary school, middle school track athletes. It gives coaching tips after every explaination, common errors and corrections, and lots of drills to help reinforce the new skills the students learn. I highly recommend it for the beginning track coach, or the old track coach who is getting stale and needs new games and drills to keep track fun.

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Record-setting athletic performances happen by design, not by accident. Years of learning, training, teaching, competing, and coaching go into developing track and field champions. And it all must start somewhere. Build a solid foundation for success with Fundamentals of Track and Field. This comprehensive text takes the guesswork out of learning and teaching the basics in all events, including often-excluded events like the 400-meter hurdles, steeplechase, triple jump, hammer throw, and race walking. Written by former Olympic athlete and veteran coach Gerry Carr, the book presents• step-by-step instructions progressing from basic skills to intermediate techniques;• practice drills for mastering each essential skill; • troubleshooting tables that list common technique errors and corrections; • coaching tips to improve instruction and organization; • safety suggestions, performance standards, and assessment tools; and• nearly 300 high-quality illustrations showing correct technique of each event in sequential detail.Fundamentals of Track and Field is the best book on the basics in each event. It is the starting point for all those who dream of one day winning a gold medal.

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Winning Jumps and Pole Vault Review

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(More customer reviews)When I heard Ed Jacoby was putting together a new book on the "jumps", I thought it would be tough to top his earlier collaboration with Bob Fraley. But this book is the best in its "field!" Ed recruited the best jumps coaches on the planet for this one-- Greg Hull, Cliff Rovelto, Boo Schexnayder and Tom (and Kyle) Tellez are inarguably among the best in the world, if not the best. Each obviously put great effort into their sections. The descriptions of drills for each event are superb-- it's usually somewhat difficult to visualize a drill from pictures and written descriptions, but these are outstanding. I really appreciate Ed's inclusion of Keith Henschen and Will Freeman's contributions as well-- they're a valuable addition to this text. I'd highly recommend this manual for every track & field coach from youth to international-level!

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The world's top track and field coaches. The world's top track and field resource. Long jump, triple jump, high jump, and pole vault. From techniques and training to strategy and mental preparation, Winning Jumps and Pole Vault is the only book that covers it all. Renowned coach Ed Jacoby and the all-star line-up of Cliff Rovelto, Tom and Kyle Tellez, Irving "Boo" Schexnayder, Greg Hull, Will Freeman, and Keith Henschen share the secrets and strategies that have produced 62 NCAA champions, 15 Olympic gold medalists, and numerous other U.S. and world medalists and champions.Every phase of every event--from approach to takeoff to landing--is described to convey proper technique. Learn how to recognize and correct common technical flaws and rely on over 25 event-specific drills to perfect technique. With preevent preparation, conditioning programs, and jump and vault strategies, Winning Jumps and Pole Vault is the one resource track and field coaches and athletes can't afford to be without.

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