Coaching Football With The Adolescent Brain In Mind

Coaching Football With The Adolescent Brain In Mind
Author: Perry Walters
Publisher:
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2021-06-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781291247893

Coaching Football with the adolescent brain in mind is a partnership between leading Educational neuroscientist Dr Perry Walters and TheFootballCoach. The book brings together a mixture of theoretical information with practical coaching sessions to help develop psychological skills. The book includes 8 theoretical chapters, from 'The emotional spark of adolescence', to the 'emerging social brain'. The book provides an insight into the changes within the adolescent brain and how these changes influence individuals within the football environment. This also allows for the book to detail the opportunities for coaches to develop psychological skills within the young person at different moments and times, as well as strategies and approaches to support players through these moments. Dr Perry Walters has also been renowned for his use of the 'Red and the Blue' approach to dealing with emotion in sport and helping players to recognise their emotional state and understanding how this might influence their performance and mindset. The approach has also been well used by coaches to recognise and understand the emotional state of players and help the players without the need of a psychologist for support. This concept has been a fantastic success with young players. The sessions included are also built to help players develop psychological skills within players. They look to create moments and behaviours from players. These include emotional control, resilience and other psychological factors. The theoretical information in the book will be important to understand, in order to best use the sessions to drive improvements in players ability to play with control and composure.

Soccer Brain

Soccer Brain
Author: Dan Abrahams
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Soccer
ISBN: 9781909125049

Soccer Brain - from Dan Abrahams - teaches coaches to train players to compete with confidence, with commitment, with intelligence, and as part of a team.

The Teen Brain Book

The Teen Brain Book
Author: Dale Bick Carlson
Publisher: Bick Publishing House
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781884158292

Philosophy and science team up to explain the working of the brain and how teens in particular should understand the secrets of the brain's functioning.

Mind Coach

Mind Coach
Author: Daniel G. Amen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1997-09-01
Genre: Achievement motivation in children
ISBN: 9781886554078

InSideOut Coaching

InSideOut Coaching
Author: Joe Ehrmann
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2011-08-02
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1439183007

In this inspirational yet practical book, the man Parade called “the most important coach in America,” subject of the national bestseller Season of Life, Joe Ehrmann, describes his coaching philosophy and explains how sports can transform lives at every level of play, from the earliest years to professional sports. Coaches have a tremendous platform, says Joe Ehrmann, a former Syracuse University All-American and NFL star. Perhaps second only to parents, coaches can impact young people as no one else can. But most coaches fail to do the teaching, mentoring, even life-saving intervention that their platform provides. Too many are transactional coaches; they focus solely on winning and meeting their personal needs. Some coaches, however, use their platform. They teach the Xs and Os, but also teach the Ys of life. They help young people grow into responsible adults; they leave a lasting legacy. These are the transformational coaches. These coaches change lives, and they also change society by helping to develop healthy men and women. InSideOut Coaching explains how to become a transformational coach. Coaches first have to “go inside” and articulate their reasons for coaching. Only those who have taken the InSideOut journey can become transformational. Joe Ehrmann provides examples of coaches in his life who took this journey and taught him how to find something bigger than himself in sports.He describes his own InSideOut experience, starting with the death of his beloved brother, which helped him understand how sports could transcend the playing field. He gives coaches the information and the tools they need to become transformational. Joe Ehrmann has taken his message about the extraordinary power of sports all over the country. It has been warmly endorsed by NFL head coaches, athletic directors at major universities, high school head coaches, even business groups and community organizations. Now any parent-coach or school or community coach can read Ehrmann’s message and learn how to make sports a life-changing experience.

Mind Gym

Mind Gym
Author: Gary Mack
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2002-06-24
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0071504648

Praise for Mind Gym "Believing in yourself is paramount to success for any athlete. Gary's lessons and David's writing provide examples of the importance of the mental game." --Ben Crenshaw, two-time Masters champion and former Ryder Cup captain "Mind Gym hits a home run. If you want to build mental muscle for the major leagues, read this book." --Ken Griffey Jr., Major League Baseball MVP "I read Mind Gym on my way to the Sydney Olympics and really got a lot out of it. Gary has important lessons to teach, and you'll find the exercises fun and beneficial." --Jason Kidd, NBA All-Star and Olympic gold-medal winner In Mind Gym, noted sports psychology consultant Gary Mack explains how your mind influences your performance on the field or on the court as much as your physical skill does, if not more so. Through forty accessible lessons and inspirational anecdotes from prominent athletes--many of whom he has worked with--you will learn the same techniques and exercises Mack uses to help elite athletes build mental "muscle." Mind Gym will give you the "head edge" over the competition.

Concussions and Our Kids

Concussions and Our Kids
Author: Robert C. Cantu
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0547773943

From America's preeminent expert on the head trauma crisis in sports, a timely, provocative, essential guide to concussions in youth sports--what they are, how to treat them, and how to protect our young athletes.

Developing a Guardiola Approach

Developing a Guardiola Approach
Author: Thefootballcoach
Publisher:
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2021-07-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9781291247428

Since its release, this really has become one of the most popular coaching books in the world. The book looks to provide insight into the work of Pep Guardiola, the book looks through a six-week mesocycle and how the sessions might be delivered, and what might be delivered within this specific block. The amount of detail within these sessions will provide coaches with a 6-week opportunity to train players to play a more positional based practice, with a much greater understanding of how to keep possession, and how to attack through positional dominance. The book does however provide great detail in how to successfully defend whilst using a Guardiola-like game model. It also shows how the positional dominance of Guardiola's teams actually allows them to be successful both with and without the ball. The sessions should provide more detail than any book has ever provided before, as well as expose some myths as to how positional play can be developed.

Counting the Days While My Mind Slips Away

Counting the Days While My Mind Slips Away
Author: Ben Utecht
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2016-08-23
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1501136690

After five major concussions, NFL tight-end Ben Utecht of the Indianapolis Colts and Cincinnati Bengals is losing his memories. This is his powerful and emotional love letter to his wife and daughters—whom he someday may not recognize—and an inspiring message for all to live every moment fully. Ben Utecht has accumulated a vast treasure of memories: tossing a football in the yard with his father, meeting his wife, with whom he’d build a loving partnership and bring four beautiful daughters into the world, writing and performing music, catching touchdown passes from quarterback Peyton Manning, and playing a Super Bowl Championship watched by ninety-three million people. But the game he has built his living on, the game he fell in love with as a child, is taking its toll in a devastating way. After at least five major concussions—and an untold number of micro-concussions—Ben suffered multiple mild traumatic brain injuries that have erased important memories. Knowing that his wife and daughters could someday be beyond his reach and desperate for them to understand how much he loves them, he recorded his memories for them to hold on to after his essential self is gone. Counting the Days While My Mind Slips Away chronicles his remarkable journey from his early days throwing a football back and forth with his father to speaking about the long-term effects of concussions before Congress, and how his faith keeps him strong and grounded as he looks toward an uncertain future. Ben recounts the experiences that have shaped his life and imparts the lessons he’s learned along the way. Emotionally powerful, inspiring, and uplifting, Ben’s story will captivate and encourage you to make the most of every day and treasure all of your memories.

Boys of Blur

Boys of Blur
Author: N. D. Wilson
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2015-07-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0449816761

Fans of Jerry Spinelli's Maniac Magee and Louis Sachar's Holes will enjoy this story about a boy and the ancient secrets that hide deep in the heart of the Florida everglades near a place called Muck City. When Charlie moves to the small town of Taper, Florida, he discovers a different world. Pinned between the everglades and the swampy banks of Lake Okeechobee, the small town produces sugar cane . . . and the fastest runners in the country. Kids chase muck rabbits in the fields while the cane is being burned and harvested. Dodging flames and blades and breathing smoke, they run down the rabbits for three dollars a skin. And when they can do that, running a football is easy. But there are things in the swamp, roaming the cane at night, that cannot be explained, and they seem connected to sprawling mounds older than the swamps. Together with his step-second cousin "Cotton" Mack, the fastest boy on the muck, Charlie hunts secrets in the glades and on the muck flats where the cane grows secrets as old as the soft earth, secrets that haunted, tripped, and trapped the original native tribes, ensnared conquistadors, and buried runaway slaves. Secrets only the muck knows.