SUMO COACHES TRAINING

Coaching under pressure: mental skills training for sports coaches

Assessing the Importance Given by Basketball Coaches to Training Contents

The purpose of this study was to compare the importance given by novice, intermediate and experienced basketball coaches to training contents. To achieve this purpose, a sample composed of Portuguese basketball coaches (n = 212) described how they rate the importance of technical, tactical, physical and drill contents. According to the results, there is a wide-ranging differential from novice t...

Monitoring of Daily Training Load and Training Load Responses in Endurance Sports: What Do Coaches Want?

Die präzise Erfassung der Belastung und Beanspruchung eines Trainings kann zu einer verbesserten Trainingssteuerung und zur Vermeidung von Übertraining führen. In der Literatur wurde bisher keine einheitliche Gold-Standard-Methode zur Messung der Trainingsbelastung oder -intensität von Ausdauerathleten präsentiert. Das Ziel dieser Publikation ist i) die Identifikation von validen, praktisch anw...

Coaching Coaches

We have developed a tandem of undergraduate courses for teaching XP and coaching of XP teams. This paper focuses on the coaching course and the coaching practices we have developed. The tandem of courses enables us to give a challenging and interesting course for the coaches, and, at the same time, allows us to afford on-site coaches for the younger students, providing them with a high quality ...

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believes philosophical investigations are neither superior to, or prior to, investigations in the natural sciences. Concern about free will is one of the key issues behind most of the resistance to materialism generally and neo-Darwinism in particular, he says. Dennett spells out just how the process of natural selection can generate organisms with greater choice in their actions. " We are now ...