Coaching Resources From Human Kinetics Publishers

Successful Coaching , Third Edition
Rainer Martens

2004 Paperback
Approx 496 pages
ISBN 0-7360-4012-9
$29.95 ($44.95 Cdn)

Editors Note:  When I opened this book I was shocked by just how comprehensive it is. My first thought was that any youth sports program, or city recreation department should have this as a teaching resource for all their coaches. It covers everything, is loaded with color images and the best parts are all the resources you can use directly from the book. Sample workouts, practice schedules, team management check lists, testing protocols parent orientations agendas and much more.
     This book covers a lot of topics and usually books that tackle this much content fail to go deep enough in each area. Not in this case!  Successful Coaching's  rich use of visual aids and sidebar content add to the text of each section with great success and clarity.  Having written two books myself I really appreciate what Martins has done with this book.

Champaign (IL) - Successful Coaching offers an in-depth introduction to the coaching profession and is specifically written for the high school and serious club coach.

Integrating the latest sport science research with practical knowledge acquired by highly experienced coaches, this book features new sections on sportsmanship, coaching diverse athletes, managing athletes’ behavior, preventing and addressing drug and alcohol abuse, and coaching using the “games approach.”    

With more than 500,000 copies sold since release of the first edition, Successful Coaching is the best-selling general coaching book ever published.

Produced by the American Sport Education Program (ASEP), it serves as text for ASEP’s Coaching Principles course, used by many colleges and universities, and endorsed by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) and numerous other sport organizations. 

It was reviewed by the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) and the National Council for Accreditation of Coaching Education (NCACE) and was found to align with the NASPE National Standards for Sport Coaches and the NCACE Guidelines for Accreditation of Coaching Education.

This third edition of Successful Coaching will be a relied-upon resource for discovering how to coach young people to become successful athletes-and successful human beings.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Developing Your Coaching   Philosophy
Chapter 2. Determining Your Coaching  Objectives
Chapter 3. Selecting Your Coaching Style
Chapter 4. Coaching for Character
Chapter 5. Coaching Diverse Athletes
Chapter 6. Communicating With Your Athletes
Chapter 7. Motivating Your Athletes
Chapter 8. Managing Your Athletes’ Behavior
Chapter 9. Coaching the Games Approach Way
Chapter 10. Teaching Technical Skills
Chapter 11. Teaching Tactical Skills
Chapter 12. Planning for Teaching
Chapter 13. Training Basics
Chapter 14. Training for Energy Fitness
Chapter 15. Training for Muscular Fitness
Chapter 16. Fueling Your Athletes
Chapter 17. Battling Drugs
Chapter 18. Managing Your Team
Chapter 19. Managing Relationships
Chapter 20. Managing Risk

About the Author

Rainer Martens has coached at the youth, high school, and collegiate levels and has studied sport as a research scientist. The founder and president of Human Kinetics, he also started the American Sport Education Program, the largest coaching education program in the U.S. An internationally recognized sport psychologist, Martens is the author of more than 80 scholarly articles and 15 books, including Successful Coaching, the best-selling general coaching book ever published, and Directing Youth Sport Programs. He has also been a featured speaker at more than 100 conferences around the world and has conducted more than 150 workshops and clinics for coaches and athletes at all levels.