When it comes to building successful soccer teams, pre-season is a critical time. It's the perfect time for the coach to create a team identity, set standards, develop effective training habits, and reinforce winning behaviors. Get it right and you can set the foundation required to catapult your team towards an excellent season. Get it wrong, however, and your season might never recover. This book looks at how pre-season has changed over the past...

The secret to winning is not what you think it is. It's not the coach. It's not the star. It's not money. It's not a strategy. It's something else entirely. Several years ago, Sam Walker set out to answer one of the most hotly debated questions in sports: What are the greatest teams of all time? He devised a formula, then applied it to thousands of teams from leagues all over the world, from the NBA to the English Premier League to Olympic field hockey....

With drills covering every facet of the sport, The Volleyball Drill Book is a comprehensive resource for today's players and coaches. Inside you'll find the game's most effective drills for these and many other aspects of the game: warming up; ball handling; passing; serving; receiving; team building; situational play; offense; defense; and transition play. Complete with diagrams, illustrations, coaching tips, variations, and practice advice, The...

You volunteered to coach the basketball team, but are you really ready? How will you teach the fundamental skills, run effective practices, and harness the energy of your young team? Fear not: Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Basketball has the answers. Yes, the wildly popular and entertaining coaching guide is back in a new, updated, and expanded second edition. Longtime coaches Keith Miniscalco and Greg Kot return to share their experience and...

"For this fully revised sixth edition of this perennial bestseller, birthing expert and practicing midwife Melissa Cheyney, PhD, joins Penny for a better-than-ever, completely up-to-date new book. Since the original publication of The Birth Partner, more than a million people--from spouses, partners, relatives, and friends to doulas, nurses, midwives, and childbirth educators--have relied on Penny Simkin's clear, concise, authoritative, and warm-hearted...

This program provides creative drills and fundamental techniques for the youth lacrosse player. The content shown has been compiled from some of the most successful lacrosse programs in the world. The skills shown are perfect for new and experienced lacrosse coach as well as parents who want to work with their kids. Also covered: stick control, scooping fundamentals, cradling, equipment overview, shooting techniques, dodging, individual drills and...

"This book is a how-to guide for employee discipline. It contains practical and legal advice, offering strategies that will help managers and HR personnel improve employee performance and avoid legal trouble. This book discusses how to: identify problems early on, decide when discipline is necessary, choose the right response to a problem, engage employees in improving performance, collaborate with employees to come up with solutions, fire employees...

This video explores the most fundamental aspects of throwing a baseball. Covered in this program are the grip, the wind-up, the release and the follow through. Special attention is given to the importance of balance and helping youth pitchers understand that throwing a baseball is not limited to just the arm but the whole body. The video will go through a variety of individual and team pitching drills. Also addressed are arm injuries, injury prevention,...

This video includes more than 30 basketball drills that a player can practice in any driveway with friends and neighbors. This program highlights: shooting, ball handling, passing, defensive drills, offensive moves and fun games. The shooting drills presented are for both individuals or with a partner and are some of the most creative used by coaches at all levels.

T-Ball Skills & Drills provides over 30 creative t-ball drills for young athletes as well as basic skills for teaching throwing, hitting, and fielding techniques in an easy-to-follow program.The video highlights: All t-ball basics, hitting fundamentals, fielding fundamentals, throwing fundamentals, correcting throwing flaws, baserunning fundamentals, drill organization, safety issues, hints for first time coaches & parents, fun games and more!