Sports coaching concepts (2005)

Coaching is a central feature of sport at all levels. This text offers a comprehensive introduction to the conceptual issues that underpin sports coaching practice, and to provide a complete conceptual framework for understanding sports coaching.

The analysis presented within the book is practice-orientated, exploring the language of the coaching process in order to define the role of the coach, and to better understand the relationship between the coach and the sports performer.

‘Sports Coaching Concepts’ introduces the key issues behind every stage of the coaching process, presenting important new material on topics such as:

• the historical and international context of the development of sports coaching; 
• the role of the coach; 
• participation and performance coaching modes; 
• modelling the coaching process.

The book draws together the existing sports coaching literature, setting it against conceptual developments, and promises to have a profound influence on the nature of our coach education programmes.

Reading for any student of sports coaching and any coach wishing to develop and extend their own coaching practice.