Motor Learning and Performance

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Wrisberg, Craig A.

Psychology & Counseling

Human Kinetics

Sport Skill Instruction for Coaches is designed to help current and aspiring coaches teach the skills athletes need in order to perform at their best. Written from a real-world perspective primarily for high school coaches, this practical, user-friendly text addresses the who, what, and how questions facing every coach: Who are the athletes I'm coaching? What are the skills I need to teach? How do I teach the skills effectively?
Coaches will address these questions by thoroughly examining such concepts as individual differences exhibited by athletes; technical, tactical, and mental skills athletes need to learn; content and structure of skill practice; the art of providing feedback; and the preparation of athletes for competition. This exploration prepares coaches to work with athletes competently and confidently.
The easy-to-follow format of the text includes learning objectives that introduce each chapter, sidebars illustrating sport-specific applications of key concepts and principles, chapter summaries organized by content and sequence, key terms, chapter review questions, activities that challenge readers to apply concepts to real-world situations, and a comprehensive glossary.

Sport Skill Instruction for Coaches

Sports & Outdoors

Coaching

The student-friendly third edition of Motor Learning and Performance expands on the fundamentals of motor performance and learning, providing valuable supporting literature and current research results. The text shows students how to apply the principles of motor learning and performance in a variety of real-world situations, including teaching, coaching, the design of performer-friendly equipment and work environments, rehabilitation, and everyday motor skill learning. Readers will gain a practical model for finding solutions to a wide range of problems. Like the previous edition, Motor Learning and Performance, Third Edition, continues to combine a conceptual model of human performance with a problem-based learning approach. Students will learn by doing to identify solutions that encompass many of the problems encountered when teaching and learning motor skills. Plus, the text's straightforward language makes it easy to understand even for students with little or no knowledge of physiology, psychology, statistical methods, and other basic sciences.

Education & Teaching

Schmidt, Richard A.

Schools & Teaching

A textbook for an undergraduate course in physical education, exercise and sport science, and related fields. Assumes no previous knowledge of physiology, psychology, statistical methods, or other basic sciences. Schmidt (psychology, U. of California-Los Angeles) and Wrisberg (motor behavior and sport psychology, U. of Tennessee-Knoxville) combine a conceptual model of human performance with a problem-based learning approach. The first edition was published in 1991. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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