Code#
BV035

Rainer Martens
2nd Edition
Copyright 1997
232pg Paperback

ISBN: 0880116668

More than 130,000 readers have already used this resource to learn the basic principles of coaching. Now revised, it provides updated information and useful advice for coaches of all sports at the high school or club level and above.

Successful Coaching (Updated Second Edition) is a comprehensive introduction to the art and science of coaching. You’ll find valuable information on:

• developing a positive coaching philosophy,
• applying the principles of sport psychology and sport physiology to your coaching,
• teaching sport skills properly, and
• using sport management skills effectively.

While retaining the best of the previous edition, Successful Coaching (Updated Second Edition) contains important changes that reflect the latest thinking as well as the constructive suggestions of coaches and administrators. This edition includes the following improvements:

• An updated chapter on fitness
• New approaches to teaching sport skills
• Revised nutritional guidelines
• More information on risk management
• Updated recommendations for managing your team

The book is filled with self-evaluation tests, summaries, and illustrations that help you absorb the information quickly and easily.

Successful Coaching (Updated Second Edition) is used by the American Sport Education Program (ASEP) and the National Federation Interscholastic Coaches Education Program (NFICEP) as a text for their Coaching Principles courses. ASEP is a multilevel coaching education program that develops coaches’ expertise in sport science, sports medicine, and drug education. NFICEP is a special version of the ASEP Leader Level SportCoach Program developed for the National Federation Interscholastic Coaches Association.

About the Author

Rainer Martens has participated in sports all his life. He has coached at the youth, high school, and collegiate levels and has studied sport as a research scientist. The chief executive officer and president of Human Kinetics, he also is the founder of the American Sport Education Program. An internationally recognized sport psychologist, Martens is the author of more than 80 scholarly articles and 15 books, including Coaching Young Athletes, Joy and Sadness in Children’s Sports, Competitive Anxiety in Sport, Youth SportDirector Guide, and Parent Guide to Little League Baseball. 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.

After receiving his PhD in Physical Education from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1968, Martens was a member of its faculty for 16 years. The current president of the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education, he has been recognized for his contribution to children’s sport by SAY Soccer and the National Recreation and Park Association. Both Emporia State University in Kansas (where he earned a bachelors’s degree) and the University of Montana (where he earned a master’s degree) have honored Martens with a Distinguished Alumni Award.

Table of Contents

Part I: Developing a Coaching Philosophy
Chapter 1. Your Coaching Objectives
Chapter 2. Your Coaching Style

Part II: Sport Psychology
Chapter 3. Evaluating Your Communication Skills
Chapter 4. Developing Your Communication Skills
Chapter 5. Principles of Reinforcement
Chapter 6. Understanding Motivation

Part III: Sport Pedagogy
Chapter 7. Planning for Teaching
Chapter 8. How Athletes Learn
Chapter 9. Teaching Sport Skills

Part IV: Sport Physiology
Chapter 10. Principles of Training
Chapter 11. Fitness for Sport
Chapter 12. Developing Your Training Program
Chapter 13. Nutrition for Athletes

Part V: Sport Management
Chapter 14. Team Management
Chapter 15. Risk Management
Chapter 16. Self-Management

Appendix A. About ASEP
Appendix B. A Parent Orientation Program
Appendix C. Directory of National Sport Organizations

Words of Praise

"Successful Coaching should be required reading for every interscholastic coach. We are proud to use it as the core text for our National Federation Interscholastic Coaches Education Program (NFICEP)."
Robert F. Kanaby
Executive Director
National Federation of State High School Associations

"A unique book! Successful Coaching takes you beyond the Xs and Os. It will make you reexamine your approach to coaching. A real winner that is not to be missed."
Morgan Wootten
Head Basketball Coach
DeMatha High School

Companion Resources
Successful Coaching (audio edition)