Sports

Reach your playing speed potential! As an athlete or coach who knows that faster is better, you’ll appreciate the advice offered in Sports Speed.

With all-new techniques and drills to improve your straight-ahead and multidirectional speed, Sports Speed will help you improve your ability to start, stop, change direction, and accelerate, taking your performance to the next level.

No matter what sport you play or coach, you’ll learn all aspects of speed development, including

-tests and assessment,
-strength base building,
-ballistic and plyometric training,
-speed endurance training,
-running technique,
-footwork drills,
-overspeed training, and
-program planning and periodization.

Photo sequences accompanied by detailed descriptions teach all the fine points of technique. Sample speed training programs for basketball, football, baseball, softball, and soccer can be used as they are or modified to meet specific needs. Charts, tables, and worksheets in each chapter help coaches and athletes understand and apply the material.

Excelling in a sport today is nearly impossible without top conditioning. Athletes need strength, power, quickness, agility, and flexibility in order to perform at a high level and sustain it in competition—when it really counts.

The book’s highlights include the following:

• Detailed strength, flexibility, and endurance advice for 26 sports
• A program matrix summarizing the cross-training options for each sport
• 56 illustrations showing the correct technique for strength and flexibility exercises
• 31 exercises to improve endurance, agility, and balance
• A compatibility matrix that links training benefits with different sport combinations

Master each key skill on the soccer field with Soccer: Steps to Success. This comprehensive guide contains progressive instruction for optimal learning of individual techniques and team tactics.

Improve your skills in dribbling, passing, receiving, shooting, defending, tackling, heading, and goalkeeping with the help of clear, detailed descriptions and accompanying illustrations of all fundamental techniques and variations. Then learn how and when to apply those skills in game situations, such as winning one-on-one matchups or attacking and defending individually or as part of a team. More than 155 drills hone your skills and gauge your readiness to move on to the next step through a clear, easy-to-follow scoring system.

Become a complete player able to perform a variety of skills and execute basic tactics consistently and successfully. Soccer: Steps to Success has helped more than 80,000 players like you take their game to a much higher level.

Rugby: Steps to Success is loaded with all the fundamentals, position-specific techniques, and key tactics needed to be a winner in rugby union competition. Authors from England’s Rugby Football Union provide the expert instruction and special insights for getting an edge on an opponent.

This complete instructional book includes sections covering:

• ball handling, passing, and receiving;
• kicking;
• tackling and contact;
• player positions--front five, middle five, and back five; and
• tactics and strategies.

With its 73 drills and 176 illustrations, Rugby: Steps to Success is the sport’s perfect practice and learning tool. Step-by-step, players will develop and refine basic individual skills, then move on to execute intermediate-level team tactics.

Part of the highly popular Steps to Success Activity Series, this book teaches the essentials needed to compete and win.

In Netball: Steps to Success, former All-Australian and world champion player and coach Wilma Shakespear covers all the essential rules, skills, and strategies, while providing extensive instruction for beginning and experienced players.

More than 2 million people around the world have already discovered this fast-moving game that emphasizes passing, movement, positioning, and speed. Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and England are among the 40 countries that play the sport competitively, and participation is growing worldwide with more men and boys taking up this traditionally women’s sport.

Netball: Steps to Success will help players learn the fundamentals and have fun at the same time. This comprehensive book includes everything a netball enthusiast needs to become a competitive player, including:

• 90 drills and practice games to improve performance,
• 144 illustrations showing correct techniques and drill diagrams,
• thorough instruction for individual skills development,
• effective strategies for team play, and
• special sections focusing on play in the back, middle, and front third of the court.

Part of the highly popular Steps to Success Series, this book is the single, best guide to competing successfully in this action-packed sport.

Develop a consistent swing and master every golf shot on your way to a lower handicap. Golf: Steps to Success provides detailed, progressive instruction with accompanying illustrations for every shot: putts, chip shots, and pitch shots as well as shots from the fairway, tee box, bunker, rough, and bad lies.

Practice and improve your shotmaking with 95 drills that feature a scoring system to gauge and accelerate your progress. After building a strong skill base, improve the mental side of your game by learning to select the right club, analyze ball flight, and manage your emotions to raise your level of play and enjoyment of the game.

This self-paced learning tool allows you to build a solid overall game and build on any initial golf lessons you may have had. As part of the popular Steps to Success Sports series—with more than 1.5 million copies sold—Golf: Steps to Success is the instructional guide you’ll find most valuable not only on the practice range and green but also on every hole you play.

Get a length up on the competition with cutting-edge technique, training, and racing information. Let the top rowing coaches and scientists in the world steer you to ultimate success, starting with sound training and racing principles and adding increasingly advanced instruction, drills, and insights all the way to the finish.

Rowing Faster is the most comprehensive and detailed guide for achieving excellence in the sport. Inside you’ll find the following advice:
Techniques, drills, and progressions used by World and Olympic champions to master every phase of the stroke

Tests to assess your rowing fitness and workouts to develop an aerobic base, increase anaerobic threshold, improve VO2max, and build rowing-specific strength and power

A rowing periodization plan to sequence all the training components into a complete training program to maximize boat speed for 1000 meters, 2000 meters, and head racing

Racing plans and tactics that have been proven successful at the highest levels of competition
Cut through the water faster than ever. Rowing Faster will boost your speed and performance to the highest level.

Get out on the course and enjoy every round! Golf Fundamentals teaches you the basics of the sport and gets you playing right away.

Learn proper execution of the sport’s essential skills and tactics. All the fundamental shots—putting, chipping, pitching, bunker shots, irons, and woods—are covered to provide a base for solid technique.

More than 45 gamelike activities and drills will speed your learning and improve your performance, and alternative scoring methods will keep the game interesting. You’ll also feel more informed with the advice provided on equipment, etiquette, course management, and recovery shots.

Golf Fundamentals is the best way to master the basics of the sport as you play. Get out on the course and use it today!