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IAAF Handbook
User friendly handbook that brings together all rules concerning the organisation of competitions. Officials, General Rules, Track, Field, Vertical Jumps, Horizontal Jumps, Throwing events, Combined Events, Indoor, Race Walking, Road Races, Cross Country, World Records and more.
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Athletic Fitness for Kids
Finally, here is a conditioning program designed to fully develop a young athletes physical skills without dropout, injury, or burnout. Athletic Fitness for Kids enhances athletic skills for young athletes using a fun, self-directed, and self-tested system. Game like activities help young athletes develop seven key sport skills: Flexibility Coordination Balance Stamina Strength Speed Athletic Fitness for Kids includes drills, games, and exercises that cross over with popular sports such as baseball, basketball, football, hockey, lacrosse, soccer, and tennis. Sport-specific drill suggestions are also included.
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Coaching Cross Country Successfully
Newton shares the secrets to his unmatched success. With this complete guide, you'll get a firsthand account of how to teach, train, and motivate like the master. You'll learn not only how Newton built his running dynasty but also how you can apply his principles of discipline, dedication, and teamwork to create your own winning cross country program. Combining straightforward instruction with dozens of personal anecdotes, Newton shows you how to: recruit athletes within your school, teach the basics of distance-running technique, develop winning race strategies, prepare for meets, and evaluate runners and your running program.
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Coaching Track & Field Successfully
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. How do you motivate players? Whats your philosophy of coaching? How can you communicate your vision to athletes, parents, and critical members of the coaching team? With Coaching Track & Field Successfully, you'll learn all of that and much more from someone who's been through it all.
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Athletic Development
Athletic Development explains what works, what doesnt, and why. Gambettas no-nonsense approach emphasizes results that pay off in the competitive season and reflect his work at the highest echelons of sport. Merging principles of anatomy, biomechanics, and exercise physiology with sports conditioning applications and four decades of professional practice, this is the definitive guide to performance-enhancing training.
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Fundamentals Of Track & Field
Provides a systematic and friendly approach to the introduction of track & field fundamentals for physical educators, beginning coaches & young athletes.
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The Complete Book of Throws
From the basic biomechanics of throwing to in-depth information on the discus, javelin, hammer, and shot put, Complete Book of Throws brings it all together to improve your techniquesand your distance! Complete Book of Throws takes the techniques and conditioning programs of the most accomplished coaches in each event and presents them in a way that athletes can understand and coaches can adapt to create a winning program. Whether youre just starting out in the event or preparing your team for competition at the highest level, youll find the conditioning and training specifics you need to strength your body, improve your form, and push your performance to the edge.