The Sports Playbook

The Sports Playbook
Author: Joshua A. Gordon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2018-03-15
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1351403249

Why do so many sports teams have losing records, year after year? Why do others win big, but only every 20 or 30 years? And why is it that so few teams enjoy sustained, continual success? This book gives the answer. Providing a blueprint or "playbook" for success in sports at every level, it lays out a clear step-by-step plan for building a team culture that will lead to winning consistently. With each step, the book introduces real-world tools that can be easily implemented by every sports organization and coach to achieve success, including team charters, individual athlete plans, player accountability systems, and team communication strategies. It offers expert advice and practical guidance on key areas, such as aligning individuals with a clear team plan, resolving conflicts proactively, and learning from every game and every season to develop a smarter and more consistent culture of success. The Sports Playbook: Building Teams that Outperform, Year after Year will help every team fulfil its true potential through leadership, focus, and performance. It is essential reading for coaches, sport management professionals, and leaders of every kind of team, inside and outside of sports. The foreword, introduction, chapter 1 and chapter 2 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com.

Changing the Playbook

Changing the Playbook
Author: Howard P Chudacoff
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2015-12-15
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0252097882

"In Changing the Playbook, Howard P. Chudacoff delves into the background and what-ifs surrounding seven defining moments that redefined college sports. These changes involved fundamental issues--race and gender, profit and power--that reflected societal tensions and, in many cases, remain pertinent today: the failed 1950 effort to pass a Sanity Code regulating payments to football players; the thorny racial integration of university sports programs; the boom in television money; the 1984 Supreme Court decision that settled who could control skyrocketing media revenues; Title IX's transformation of women's athletics; the cheating, eligibility, and recruitment scandals that tarnished college sports in the 1980s and 1990s; the ongoing controversy over paying student athletes a share of the enormous moneys harvested by schools and athletic departments. A thought-provoking journey into the whos and whys of college sports history, Changing the Playbook reveals how the turning points of yesterday and today will impact tomorrow."

The Sports Nutrition Playbook

The Sports Nutrition Playbook
Author: Amy Goodson
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578712628

The Sports Nutrition Playbook is a play-by-play on sports nutrition for athletes, coaches, trainers and parents. It provides sports nutrition information in a portable, practical and easy-to-use format.

The Playbook

The Playbook
Author: Kwame Alexander
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2017-02-14
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1328698920

A companion to the Newbery Medal-winning middle grade novel The Crossover, the basis of the show streaming on Disney+! What can we imagine for our lives? What if we were the star players, moving and grooving through the game of life? What if we had our own rules of the game to help us get what we want, what we aspire to, what will enrich our lives? Illustrated with photographs by Thai Neave, The Playbook is intended to provide inspiration on the court of life. Each rule contains wisdom from inspiring athletes and role models such as Nelson Mandela, Serena Williams, LeBron James, Carli Lloyd, Steph Curry, and Michelle Obama. Kwame Alexander also shares his own stories of overcoming obstacles and winning games in this motivational and inspirational book for readers of any age and for anyone needing a little bit of encouragement. You gotta know the rules to play the game. Ball is life. Take it to the hoop. Soar.

High Performance Culture in Sports

High Performance Culture in Sports
Author: Phillip Ragain
Publisher:
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2019-02-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781795607292

Culture has become a hot topic in athletics. From high school to professional programs, people are recognizing that culture plays a significant role in a team's success, but there has been little agreement about what a good culture looks like or how leaders can create it. Fortunately, this road has been travelled before in industries such as aerospace, oil and gas exploration, and nuclear power generation, where high levels of human performance can be the difference between success and disaster, or even life and death. For more than four decades, the authors have helped hundreds of organizations around the world develop leaders and improve their cultures. And with more than 25 years of experience in high school coaching and a combined 11 state championships, the authors' unique combination of experience and expertise allows them to adapt the solutions used in performance-critical industries to athletic programs at any level. High Performance Culture in Sports is the playbook for coaches and athletic administrators who want to achieve program excellence by developing the six dimensions of a high performing culture.

The Transition Playbook for ATHLETES

The Transition Playbook for ATHLETES
Author: Phil Costa
Publisher:
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2019-05-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578457697

100+ Elite Athletes, including 25 Olympians, share advice on success, routine, and winning in life after sports.

The Student-Athlete Playbook

The Student-Athlete Playbook
Author: Barry Brown
Publisher:
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2014-06-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692217979

The Student-Athlete Playbook (Success in the Classroom, Sports & Life!) emphasizes the same passion & effort put forth achieving in your sport ... is the same passion & effort you put forth achieving in the classroom & in life! Parents, student-athletes, teachers, coaches, athletic directors, principals and superintendents will all find value in the inspiration and motivation of this book. The Student-Athlete Playbook shares vital information about who is and what is a student-athlete. The book also discusses how to grow and conduct yourself as a student-athlete at all times. The Student-Athlete Playbook provides "life plays" that will absolutely help a student-athlete achieve their goals when they focus and put forth maximum effort to make it happen! The Student-Athlete Playbook is a game changer for student-athletes involved in sports across the board, and it encourages them to work towards achieving greatness in the classroom, in their respective sport and in everything that they do in life!

The Coach's Strength Training Playbook

The Coach's Strength Training Playbook
Author: Joe Kenn
Publisher: Coaches Choice Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Athletic trainers
ISBN: 9781585188697

Strength and conditioning specialist Joe Kenn draws upon the three strength disciplines; weightlifting, powerlifiting, and body building, as well as training principles of traditional periodization and high-intensity training, to define the Tier System of athletic-based strength training. The tier system promotes training athletes on a rotation of movements (total body, upper body, lower body) rather than training body parts. The result is an integrated, whole-body strength training program with greater real-world and sport-appropriate applicability.The book explores an overview of the system, and provides annual plan development, training cycles, and daily and weekly plans. Ideal for coaches and trainers of football, basketball, track & field, wrestling, gymnastics and any sport requiring maximum and explosive strength.

Basketball

Basketball
Author: Pete Newell
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Total Pages: 134
Release: 1976
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN:

Sports Illustrated Blood, Sweat and Chalk

Sports Illustrated Blood, Sweat and Chalk
Author: The Editors of Sports Illustrated
Publisher: Time Home Entertainment
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2010-08-03
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1603203761

The modern game of football is filled with plays and formations with names like the Counter Trey, the Wildcat, the Zone Blitz and the Cover Two. They have become part of the sport's vernacular, and yet for many fans they remain just names, often confusing ones. To rectify that, Tim Layden has drilled deep into the core of the game to reveal not only how these chalkboard X's and O's really work on the field, but also where they came from and who dreamed them up. These playbook schemes, many of them illuminated by diagrams, bear the insignia of some of the game's great innovators, men like Vince Lombardi, Don Coryell, Tom Osborne, Bill Walsh, Tony Dungy and Buddy Ryan. But football has also been radically altered by the ingenious work of men with more obscure names, like Tiger Ellison, Emory Bellard and Mouse Davis. In Blood, Sweat and Chalk, Layden takes readers into the meeting rooms-and in some cases the living rooms-where the game's most significant ideas were hatched. He goes to the coaches and to the players who inspired them, and lets them tell their stories. In candid conversations with some of football's most intriguing characters, Layden provides a fascinating guide to the game, helping fans to better see the subtleties of America's favorite sport.