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The Language That Wins: Why Every Coach Should Read The Language of Performance

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  The Language That Wins: Why Every Coach Should Read The Language of Performance Walk onto any training ground, athletics track, swimming pool, gymnasium or changing room and you will hear an endless stream of communication. Coaches instruct. Athletes ask questions. Teammates encourage one another. Parents offer advice from the sidelines. Every session is filled with words. Yet surprisingly little attention is given to how those words influence performance. Most coaches spend years studying biomechanics, physiology, strength and conditioning, nutrition, skill acquisition and tactical development. They learn how to build stronger, faster and more technically proficient athletes. What is often missing is formal education in one of the most influential coaching skills of all: communication. Simon Tolson's new book, The Language of Performance: How Great Coaches Use Communication to Build Confidence, Motivation and Sporting Success , seeks to address exactly that gap. Rather than trea...
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Explosive Strength Development: The Legacy of Yuri Verkhoshansky

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  Explosive Strength Development: The Legacy of Yuri Verkhoshansky Part One: The Man Who Revolutionised Explosive Strength Training The history of strength and conditioning is filled with influential coaches whose methods have shaped the preparation of athletes across the world. Few individuals, however, have fundamentally altered the scientific understanding of athletic performance to the extent achieved by Yuri Verkhoshansky. Often referred to as the father of the Shock Method and one of the pioneers of modern explosive strength training, Verkhoshansky transformed what had once been based largely upon coaching intuition into a discipline rooted firmly in biomechanics, physiology and scientific experimentation. His work continues to influence Olympic programmes, professional sports organisations and university research laboratories more than half a century after many of his original discoveries. Although many coaches know his name because of depth jumps or because they associate h...
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