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Coaching Youth Football, 4th Edition
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Whether you’re a parent new to coaching or an experienced youth coach, Coaching Youth Football (Official Handbook of USA Football) is your playbook for a successful season. Through the expertise of Coach Tom Bass and
Coaching Football Successfully
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Coaching Football Successfully is a thorough presentation of techniques, tactics, and drills for coaching offense, defense, and special teams. In addition to Xs and Os, the book covers every facet of the game, including the author’s renowned coaching philosophy, which stresses strong values, discipline, and academic standards.
The Football Coaching Bible
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Developed by the American Football Coaches Association, the Football Coaching Bible features the insight, advice, and strategies of football’s most successful coaches. This coaching guide spans six decades of the sport, reaching into every corner of the
Football Coaching Strategies
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Football Coaching Strategies contains 349 detailed diagrams showing a variety of offensive attacks, defensive packages, and special team tactics accompanied by useful advice from coaching experts.
Football Skills & Drills
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Successful Coaching, 3rd Edition
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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.
Football’s Best Offensive Playbook
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Football’s Best Offensive Playbook provides 100 plays with clear, accurate diagrams and coaching pointers that highlight key player positions and responsibilities. Many coaches list alternate formations, and most of the plays can be adapted to any offensive system since the book features contributions from coaches in the high school, college, and pro ranks.
Offensive Football Strategies
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Offensive Football Strategies contains the most popular and effective offensive philosophies, systems, formations, and plays over the past 40 years from some of the greatest football coaches. This extensive collection, developed in cooperation with the American Football Coaches Association, includes instructional points, experienced insights, and more than 700 X-and-O diagrams.
AFCA’s Offensive Football Drills
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No matter what style of offense you run, this book helps coaches develop the individual skills of offensive linemen, running backs, wide receivers, tight ends and quarterbacks. AFCA Offensive Football Drills features the best drills used by many of the country’s top college and high school offensive teams. Choose from 75 individual and team drills to hone your players’ offensive skills.
Complete Quarterbacking
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The team leader needs to know exactly what is happening on the line of scrimmage. He needs to be able to read the defense and react accordingly. He must be a team motivator and effective communicator, and he must be able to withstand the physical and mental pressures of this most prestigious position. Complete Quarterbacking gives you all that information and more.
AFCA’s Defensive Football Drills
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Developed in cooperation with the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), this book features drills and insights from many of the country’s best college and high school defensive coaches. All of the drills in the book are presented in a standardized two-page format and are accompanied by a list of key coaching points and an illustration, making them easy to understand and teach. Many of the drills can be performed by players without a coach’s supervision.
Complete Linebacking
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Complete Linebacking describes in depth and illustrates clearly the fundamentals, pre-snap reads, and tackling techniques used by any linebacker in any defense. A special teaching guide explains how to prepare quality practices and meetings to maximize learning and performance. The book also includes four key linebacker ability tests and 33 drills to measure and improve position-specific skills. More than 200 diagrams and photographs illustrate author Lou Tepper’s detailed explanations.
Defensive Football Strategies
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Defensive Football Strategies is a collection of strategies, teaching and insights from some of the best defensive minds in the game. Included are 73 detailed presentations on many of football’s most successful defensive systems assembled over the last 40 years.
Special Teams
Kicking the Football
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Former NFL punter and veteran kicking instructor Bill Renner discloses the best practice methods, techniques, and tactics to kick like a pro. Kicking the Football goes in depth to explain the “why” of each technique. Twenty-two sequential drills — 13 for punting and 9 for kicking — demonstrate each specific technique.
Complete Guide to Special Teams
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This comprehensive guide presents detailed technique instruction for kickers, punters, long snappers, field goal and extra point kickers and holders, kickoff and punt returners, and other specialized positions related to the kicking game. Chapters on the development of special team units and players highlight the best practice drills and key teaching points for success.
Conditioning & Training
52-Week Football Training
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Whether you’re a coach looking for a proven training plan or a serious player wanting to excel, 52-Week Football Training provides the conditioning plan you need to maximize football-specific physical development and motivation. Players can gain the perfect balance of power, speed, and agility by implementing this proven in-season and off-season training plan.
Complete Conditioning for Football
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During the past three decades the University of Nebraska football program has set the pace for successful conditioning. Now, two members of the Cornhuskers’ strength and conditioning staff present the same program used by Nebraska to power its way to national championships. The book includes 98 proven position-specific exercises that help players at all levels improve speed, agility, power, and endurance.
Strength Training for Young Athletes, 2nd Edition
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Learn how to individualize the age-appropriate sample training programs provided, based on the athlete’s physical, psychological, and emotional maturity as well as the demands of the sport. Such carefully designed programs not only improve athletic performance and prepare young athletes for higher competitive levels, but they also help to decrease the incidence of injury along the way.
Strength and Power for Young Athletes
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This proven, research-based text provides young people ages 7 to 15 with a solid fitness base, offering aerobic activities and stretching exercises. It also presents the principles and practical applications for developing both age- and sport-specific strength-training programs.
Total Training for Young Champions
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Provides coaches, instructors, teachers, and parents of potential future sports stars the best conditioning advice and programs for establishing an overall fitness base and maximizing the athletic development of young people ages 6 to 18. Specifically, the book outlines how to increase a young athlete’s coordination, flexibility, speed, endurance, and strength, thereby enabling them to excel in sports.
Officiating
Officiating Football
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Based on officiating mechanics devised and endorsed by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS), Officiating Football is the definitive guide for new and experienced high school referees. Included are guidelines for what’s expected of you as an official, officiating procedures and responsibilities, and pre- and postgame duties.
First Aid
Sport First Aid, 3rd Edition
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Teaches coaches how to prevent sport injuries and how to make the correct decisions during on-field emergency situations. The book describes first-response evaluation and treatment techniques for more than 110 injuries and illnesses. Definitions, causes, symptoms, signs, and first aid protocols are included for each injury and ailment, as well as notes on when the athlete can return to play. This full-color third edition is filled with hundreds of photos and illustrations that bring first aid recognition and administration techniques to life.