Sports Coaching: The Basics (Paperback)

Preface

1. What is sports coaching?

2. The philosophical coach

3. A history and a herstory of sports coaching

4. Coaching as social: considering the ‘taken for granted’ in coaches’ work

5. Causes and consequences: coaches as motivated and as constructors of motivational climates

6. Athlete/player learning and coaches’ methods

7. Learning the labour: considering coaches’ learning initiatives

8. Crossing lines: considering problematic coaching behaviour(s)

9. Twelve hour days, six days a week, fifty weeks a year: considering the careers of performance coaches