Coaching Myths: Fifteen Wrong Ideas in Youth Sports

by Rick Albrecht

Book Overview

Unlike the generations of coaches that have gone before them, today's coaches are expected not only to teach motor skills to young athletes but to do so in an environment that is conducive to the ethical, emotional, social and physical well-being of each one of them.

Each of the 15 chapters of this book presents, and then systematically debunks, the most pervasive, persistent and potentially harmful myths in coaching, including such chestnuts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078647369X
• ISBN13: 9780786473694
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher