Best Football Drills: The Drill Book for Winning Football Teams

Best Football Drills: The Drill Book for Winning Football Teams

The glory of the gridiron is paid by the sweat of the practice field. No team wins football games without first winning their football practices.Featuring hundreds of pages of proven and effective football drills, the Best Football Drills book prepares players and coaches to practice like champions.Whether you are a head coach leading an entire team, or an individual player looking to get the upper hand on your competition, this book will equip you with everything it takes to excel in practice and dominate in the game.Successful drills lead to successful practices.Successful practices lead to successful games.Successful games lead to successful teams.Start planning your team’s success with the drills found in this book.

  • ASIN: 1090436866
  • ISBN: 1090436866
  • Manufacturer: Independently published

Youth Football Skills & Drills: A New Coach's Guide

Youth Football Skills & Drills: A New Coach's Guide

One of the NFL's leading coaches helps you improve your players' techniques and your team's performance Building on the phenomenal success of the Baffled Parent's series, this comprehensive resource helps you expand your teaching skills and improve your players' performance and enjoyment. It's equally indispensable for parents thrust into coaching, former players taking on their first coaching assignments, and veteran coaches. This great guide features: Tackling and catching drills for the entire team Group and team drills for offensive, defensive, and special team situations A unique system of paired drills and instruction for wide receivers and defensive backs; linemen and tight ends; and running backs and linebackers Photographs and diagrams that simplify the coaching process

  • ASIN: 0071441794
  • ISBN: 0071441794
  • Manufacturer: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press

AFCA's Defensive Football Drills

AFCA's Defensive Football Drills

In this day of explosive scoring and rules changes that favor the offense, fielding a competitive defense is more difficult than ever. AFCA's Defensive Football Drills tries to level the playing field by providing the defense with practice activities that teach defenders the skills they need to excel. The book's 70 drills are divided into four sections: - Defensive Line drills- Linebacker drills - Defensive Back drills - Team Defense drillsDeveloped in cooperation with the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA)--the leading football coaching organization with more than 8,000 members--this book features drills and insights from many of the country's best college and high school defensive coaches.AFCA's Defensive Football Drills develops the fundamental skills every defender needs to compete in today's game--an aggressive style of play and an understanding of complex defensive strategies. 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. AFCA's Defensive Football Drills--it's the best defensive read a coach or player can make!

  • ASIN: 0880114762
  • ISBN: 0880114762
  • Brand: Human Kinetics
  • Manufacturer: Human Kinetics

Soccer IQ: Things That Smart Players Do, Vol. 1

Soccer IQ: Things That Smart Players Do, Vol. 1

Named the #1 book for Soccer Players and Coaches by Football.comNamed a Top 5 Book of the Year by the NSCAA Soccer JournalAn Amazon #1 best-seller in the U.S., Canada and AustraliaTranslated into ten languagesIncludes links to free Soccer iQ companion videos that bring the lessons to life! Soccer iQ is the first book for soccer PLAYERS!  In a world saturated with books about how to coach soccer, Dan Blank finally gives players a book on how to think it. Standing on two decades of collegiate coaching experience, Blank has catalogued soccer's most common mistakes and provides simple, connect-the-dots solutions to help players solve their soccer problems. Soccer iQ is soccer's first text book for players; an almanac of smarter soccer decisions intended to flatten out the learning curve. It covers everything from hunting rebounds to the value of the toe-ball; from playing in the rain to the world's dumbest foul. Blank tells his story from the familiar and humorous voice of a coach who has endured years of stress at the hands of his players. Written in plain-spoken language, Soccer iQ is an easy read and a quick-fix to the most common yet critically important soccer problems. Includes a bonus chapter on the college recruiting process. "Finally someone wrote this book! If every soccer player read Soccer iQ, every coach would be a lot happier." Mark Francis - Head Coach University of Kansas"Dan Blank has just written soccer's first definitive text book." Colin Carmichael - Head Coach Oklahoma State University"This book has immediately become required reading for my team. I'll take 30 copies." Steve Nugent - Head Coach UNC-Greensboro "Soccer iQ may the best practical soccer book I have ever read. There's no fluff. Just nuts and bolts principles that we teach every day. It'll solve a lot of your soccer problems." Steve Holeman - Head Coach University of Georgia

  • ASIN: 1469982471
  • ISBN: 1469982471
  • Brand: Brand: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The Tennis Drill Book

The Tennis Drill Book

The world’s best tennis drill book returns—bigger, better, and more comprehensive than ever. Building on the strengths of the popular first edition, this second edition of The Tennis Drill Book includes more drills, expert instruction, advice, and analysis for today’s players and coaches. The Tennis Drill Book is your complete collection of drills, games, and tips for improving stroke technique, match strategy, and everything in between. Inside you will find • progressive technique drills for mastering every stroke and shot combination; • tactics drills for winning with aggressive or defensive strategies in every game situation; • mental training drills for staying focused when the pressure is on; • warm-up, cool-down, and conditioning drills for increasing speed, agility, and endurance; and • game-based drills that simulate singles and doubles match play. With insights, recommendations, and performance tips from teaching pro and former WTA player Tina Hoskins-Burney and veteran coach Lex Carrington (coach to Vera Zvonareva), The Tennis Drill Book is an essential reference that belongs in every tennis library.

  • ASIN: 1450459927
  • ISBN: 1450459927
  • Manufacturer: Human Kinetics Publishers

Football Skills & Drills

Football Skills & Drills

The best-selling guide on the essentials of the game is bigger, better, and more comprehensive than ever. Solid blocking, sure tackling, proper footwork, precise routes, correct coverage angles, and synchronized body movements--these basic techniques are all essential to winning football. Football Skills & Drills is your guide to success, explaining how to teach key skills and consistent execution to players in offensive, defensive, and special-teams positions. You will benefit from the same techniques used by top college and professional teams, along with a complete arsenal of 114 drills. From quarterback rollouts for winning touchdowns to block-shedding maneuvers for drive-stopping sacks, Football Skills & Drills translates technical instruction into on-field application, depicting exactly how each pass, pattern, route, catch, block, tackle, and kick is performed. Gridiron champions are made on the practice field. Football Skills & Drills serves as a great foundation in your quest for a title.

  • ASIN: 0736090762
  • ISBN: 0736090762
  • Brand: Human Kinetics
  • Manufacturer: Human Kinetics

Football Training: The Pros' Guide to Becoming Bigger, Faster, Stronger

Football Training: The Pros' Guide to Becoming Bigger, Faster, Stronger

Built from a library of grueling workouts, training secrets, and nutritional tips used by America's professional gridiron greats, this book gives an inside look at the best workouts, together with instructions and advice from ten of professional football's most prolific and well-conditioned players and their coaches. The pros' training methods are compiled into detailed workout programs, with step-by-step exercise descriptions, that will improve on-field performance in the safest and most effective ways possible. Such greats as Reggie Bush, Payton Manning, and Brian Urlacher perform actual workouts in this illustrative guide that will help all levels of athlete, or anyone else interested in diversifying their fitness approaches, step up their game.

  • ASIN: 1600782809
  • ISBN: 1600782809
  • Brand: Stackmedia
  • Manufacturer: Triumph Books

Coordination Agility & Speed Training for Soccer

Coordination Agility & Speed Training for Soccer

Provides drills accompanied by useful tips and understandable instructions with easy to follow diagrams. This book includes: Practical Warm Ups; Drills with the Ball; Drills with Rods and Cones; Running Technique; Plyometric Exercises and more.

  • ASIN: 1890946427
  • ISBN: 1890946427
  • Brand: Brand: Reedswain
  • Manufacturer: Reedswain

Two-Minute Drill (Comeback Kids)

Two-Minute Drill (Comeback Kids)

From #1 New York Times bestseller Mike Lupica!Chris Conlan is the coolest kid in sixth grade?the golden-armed quarterback of the football team and the boy all the others look up to. Scott Parry is the new kid, the boy with the huge brain, but with feet that trip over themselves. These two boys may seem like an odd couple, but each has a secret that draws them together, and proves that the will to succeed is even more important than raw talent.

  • ASIN: 0142414425
  • ISBN: 0142414425
  • Brand: Puffin
  • Manufacturer: Puffin Books

The Softball Drill Book

The Softball Drill Book

Packed with 175 drills straight from the practice sessions of the game's most successful programs, The Softball Drill Book will add variety to your practices and precision to your game-day performances. The comprehensive collection covers every aspect of the game. From warm-up to conditioning, throwing to hitting, bunting to base-running, you'll find drills to improve position skill and team execution - all from college coaches and programs that have won 13 NCAA Women's College World Series titles and dozens of NCAA regional tournament titles. Contributors include:-Louie Berndt, Florida State-Carol Bruggeman, Louisville-Yvette Girouard, Louisiana State-Michelle Gromacki, Cal State Fullerton-Deanna Gumpf, Notre Dame-Carol Hutchins, Michigan-Kelly Inouye-Perez, UCLA-Jay Miller, Mississippi State-Jennifer Ogee, Nebraska-Kim Sowder, Long Beach State-Heather Tarr, Washington-Michelle Venturella, Iowa-Kirk Walker, Oregon State-Margie Wright, Fresno StateOne look at the names above and it is clear, The Softball Drill Book is your blueprint for championship practices.

  • ASIN: 0736060707
  • ISBN: 0736060707
  • Brand: Human Kinetics
  • Manufacturer: Human Kinetics