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Fitness coaching is more than just a job. It is a true vocation that allows you to accompany people towards a better version of themselves, both physically and mentally. Becoming a fitness coach is of course learning how to create effective programs, but it is also understanding human psychology, inspiring your clients and building a career that combines passion and success. If you have opened this book, it is because you feel this calling: to help others achieve their physical goals, to bring a real change in their lives and, at the same time, to build a rewarding and prosperous career.

This audiobook bundle includes three titles that will help your soccer skills: Soccer Analytics, Soccer Drills, and Soccer Offense. Listen to learn more about how to improve your soccer abilities....

This is not a traditional coaching guide. It's a coaching manifesto born from struggle. Good Coach Bad Coach reveals that our relationship with success and failure is the key.

Dear England: The Real Story of the Three Lions Rebirth delves into Southgate's turbulent journey to being hired as England manager, to his emergence as a waistcoated cult figure and becoming the country's most successful manager since Sir Alf Ramsey. Award-winning football writers Jonathan Northcroft and Rob Draper have had extraordinary access to the England team during Southgate's tenure and take us behind the scenes as they exclusively interview key backroom staff and players.

The use of analytics in sport is now well embedded. Marginal gains, the bedrock upon which the cycling coach Dave Brailsford built his greatest successes, are cornerstones of most sports nowadays. But, until recently, that did not apply to the biggest sport in the world. Not in soccer. It was as though this simplest of sports is too complicated for statistics. Or that only one statistic counts, the number of times the ball hits the back of the net. "The only statistic that counts", there’s an often used and annoying stock term.

This is a high-level overview of the areas that can take a player from being a benchwarmer to MVP. In a day and age where many so-called experts' advice is to improve your conditioning, get more touches, try harder, and want it more, this audiobook stands out on delivering the steps to turn any player into a great performer.

This in-depth examination of soccer takes listeners on a tour across the world and throughout history, introducing the many people who have attempted to shine a light onto and innovate a sport that, in many ways, is still stuck in the Dark Ages. This deep dive into the rise of analytics in soccer—a sport where tradition reigns supreme—shows how revolutionary tactics and underexplored metrics are breaking the beautiful game wide open.

Supercharge Your Sports Performance is a superb, high-quality hypnosis recording by the UK’s best-selling self-help audio author, Glenn Harrold. This powerful audio will help you achieve a peak performance state whenever you need to be at your best in any sporting event. Using the latest hypnotherapy techniques, Glenn will help you prepare for any sporting activity or competition by using the power of your mind. The hypnosis session will help you focus your mind on being able to get ‘in the zone’.

Are you frustrated by the overwhelming number of golf terms and techniques? Do you struggle to get your swing right despite countless tries? Do the intricate rules and etiquette of golf leave you feeling out of place on the course? If these scenarios sound familiar, you're not alone.

Discover the next frontier in sports training—improving your mental game, no matter your age or experience—and how to become the Playmaker, both in your professional and personal life. Coaches search for it. Parents dream of it. Fans love it. Athletes want it. The playmaker on any sports...

For forty years, Dean Smith coached the University of North Carolina basketball team with unsurpassed success. Now, in The Carolina Way, he explains his coaching philosophy and shows readers how to apply it to the leadership and team-building challenges they face in their own lives. In his wry...

Highly acclaimed UCLA Women's gymnastics coach of 7 NCAA championships Valorie Kondos Field shares insights on how to use uniqueness and authenticity to achieve success. Former professional ballerina Valorie Kondos Field--or Miss Val, as she's affectionately known--has never tumbled, flipped, or...

Award-winning sportswriter Ivan Maisel brings the forgotten legend of Notre Dame head football coach Frank Leahy back to life, based on rare and complete access to Fighting Irish football historical archives and the Leahy family. When Frank Leahy retired from Notre Dame after the 1953 season, he...

“An explosive tell-all book.”—Sports Illustrated “This is a must-read masterpiece.”—Paul Finebaum, ESPN college football analyst and New York Times bestselling author Two of the nation’s most respected sports journalists team up for a vital, hard-hitting investigation into the...

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 how these chalkboard X's and O's really work on the field, as well as where they came from and who dreamed them up.

Championship results require championship behaviors—it's as simple as that. In this essential book, Hugh McCutcheon provides a proven framework for competitive excellence based in motor learning, psychology, and decades of coaching experience and success. Championship Behaviors provides athletes, parents of athletes, and coaches a defined path to the "how" of significant achievement while simply and clearly explaining the research behind the "why."

Everyone wants teamwork in the team, but teamwork doesn’t happen without good teammates - individuals whose unique way of thinking propels their team to success, no matter what team they’re on. Whether it’s sports, family, school, work, or friends, the attitude is similar. The We Gear takes you inside the fascinating mind-set of a good teammate. Through inspiring stories and powerful lessons, you’ll explore the art of being a good teammate, while discovering the five keys to shifting your focus from me to we.

Raise confident, resilient kids—without pushing too hard. Whether your child plays travel sports, competes in local leagues, or just wants to feel more confident, Mental Toughness for Kids (and Their Grownups) is your go-to playbook for helping children ages 6 to 13 build inner strength, focus, and emotional resilience. This isn’t just another parenting guide filled with theory or fluff. It’s a clear, practical resource designed for busy families who want real tools that actually work—in sports, school, and everyday life.

Are you struggling to balance encouragement and pressure? Do you want effective ways to help your child handle stress, perform better, and enjoy sports? This guide offers actionable techniques to enhance your child's mental resilience and emotional well-being.

In Legendary, LeBeau along with veteran Steelers’ scribes Scott Brown and George Von Benko will revisit that unforgettably dominant 2008 defensive unit, one of the most feared and successful in the modern NFL landscape. A deep dive into each game of the 2007-2008 championship season, with added perspective of how that “Blitzburgh” defense stacks up against the other great contemporary defenses, LeBeau also intersperses revelations about the 2008 Steelers with anecdotes from his nearly 60 years in the NFL as both a star player and groundbreaking coach who spanned decades of football innovation.