General Coaching

A great starting place for new coaches, and invaluable coaching books to use as a references for coaches of any level and experience.  Whether you're coaching football or any other sport, you'll find some great resources here.

The Seven Secrets of Successful Coaches

Learn how to get the absolute most out the people you lead using the success secrets of many of sport’s most successful and respected coaches including Mike Krzyzewski (Duke Men’s Basketball), Pat Summitt (Tennessee Women’s Basketball), Mike Candrea (Arizona Softball), Marty Schottenheimer (San Diego Chargers), Mary Wise (Florida Volleyball) Jerry Yeagley (Indiana Soccer), Mike Gillespie (USC Baseball), Leroy Walker (USA Track and Field), and numerous others.

The book shows coaches and leaders of all kinds (managers, teachers) how to unlock and unleash your team’s full potential. Learn how to build confidence and commitment, motivate and inspire your team, handle difficult discipline issues, earn your team’s respect, and leave a lasting legacy as a leader. This practical, information-packed book will help you create a confident, committed, and coachable team.


Coaching the Mental Game: Leadership Philosophies and Strategies for Peak Performance in Sports and Everyday Life

Coaching the Mental Game is a bible for coaches who strive to make their athletes the most complete performers possible. Not only a wonderful asset to athletic coaches, this book is a motivational resource for workers in all industries as well as in the game of life.

Teaching Character Through Sport: Developing a Positive Coaching Legacy

Demonstrates how a positive coaching legacy can transcend scores on a bronze plaque as a coach influences and helps to mold the life-long character of the athletes they work with.

Noted author and speaker Bruce Brown examines the key issues is creating a lasting legacy, including; how to make a difference, common traits among successful coaches, beliefs about character and sport, action statements about teaching character through sport, redefining the term "athlete", teaching specific values, practicing sportsmanship, the qualities of great teams, team building through positive conditioning, the role of parents in athletics and much, much more. As easy and enjoyable to read as it is thought-provoking. A must for coaches of any level and sport.


Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning - 3rd Edition

Now in its third edition, Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning is the most comprehensive reference available for strength and conditioning professionals. In this text, 30 expert contributors explore the scientific principles, concepts, and theories of strength training and conditioning as well as their applications to athletic performance.

Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning is the most-preferred preparation text for the Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) exam. The research-based approach, extensive exercise technique section, and unbeatable accuracy of Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning make it the text readers have come to rely on for CSCS exam preparation.



Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and Off the Court

Coach Wooden's remarkable 10 national basketball championships in 12 years at UCLA speak for themselves. In Wooden, the coach--quiet, thoughtful, and introspective throughout his distinguished career--finally speaks forhimself, and he's well worth hearing. Wooden is a modern chapbook of inspiration and good sense that reveals the hard-court philosopher behind it as a man of character, conviction, decency, and straightforwardness. There are no complex ideas, just little beams of light filtered through anecdotes that project the kinds of simple, immutable truths that in the end touch nothing but net.