Sports Coaching

Coaching makes a key contribution to sport, helps to promote social inclusion and participation, and assists athletes in achieving performance targets. This title presents an analysis of performance and good coaching practice and performance, and provides an overview of the coaching process from a scientific and pedagogical perspective. Sport plays a crucially important role in our society and the benefits of participating in sport and physical activity are widely acknowledged in terms of personal health and well-being. Coaching makes a key contribution to sport, helps to promote social inclusion and participation, and assists athletes in achieving performance targets. Accordingly, this authoritative and comprehensive reference work will be widely welcomed. Written by acknowledged experts, it presents a detailed analysis of performance and good coaching practice and performance, and provides a concise overview of the coaching process from a scientitic and pedagogical perspective.