Sports Coaching Concepts

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 coaching 'style' and 'philosophy' decision-making and regulating the process social factors influencing practice the future of coach education and professionalisation The book draws together the existing sports coaching literature for the first time, setting it against important new conceptual developments, and promises to have a profound influence on the nature of our coach education programmes.