Sports training and coaching Books

Book SynopsisFrom award-winning Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy, an ';entertaining' (The Wall Street Journal) and nostalgia-filled retelling of the 1980s Boston Celtics' glory years, which featured the sublime play of NBA legend Larry Bird.Today the NBA is a vast global franchisea billion-dollar industry seen by millions of fans in the United States and abroad. But it wasn't always this successful. Before primetime ESPN coverage, lucrative branding deals like Air Jordans, and $40 million annual player salaries, there was the NBA of the 1970s and 1980swhen basketball was still an up-and-coming sport featuring old school beat reporters and players who wore Converse All-Stars. Enter Dan Shaughnessy, then the beat reporter for The Boston Globe who covered the Boston Celtics every day from 1982 to 1986. It was a time when reporters travelled with professional teamsflying the same commercial airlines, riding the same buses, and staying in the same hotels. Shaughnessy knew the athletes as real people, losing free throw bets to Larry Bird, being gifted cheap cigars by the iconic coach Red Auerbach, and having his one-year-old daughter Sarah passed from player to player on a flight from Logan to Detroit Metro. Drawing on unprecedented access and personal experiences that would not be possible for any reporter today, Shaughnessy takes us inside the legendary Larry Bird-led Celtics teams, capturing the camaraderie as they dominated the NBA. Fans can witness the cockiness of Larry Bird (who once walked into an All-Star Weekend locker room, announced that he was going to win the three-point contest, and did); the ageless athleticism of Robert Parish; the shooting skills of Kevin McHale; the fierce, self-sacrificing play of Bill Walton; and the playful humor of players like Danny Ainge, Cedric ';Cornbread' Maxwell, and M.L. Carr. For any fan who longs to returnfor just a few hoursto those magical years when the Boston Garden rocked and the winner's circle was mostly colored Boston Green, Wish It Lasted Forever is a masterful tribute to ';the Celtics from 19821986 [that] is so good even fervent Celtics haters will have trouble putting it down' (New York Post).

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Book SynopsisPart 1: Theoretical review.- Chapter 1. Physical (in)activity in children and adolescents. Current situation - Javier Brazo-Sayavera, Salomé Aubert and colleagues.- Chapter 2. Physical Education and school context: an ideal setting for PA promotion - Javier Sevil-Serrano, Angel Abós and Roberto Ferriz.- Chapter 3. Why is Self-determined motivation important in Physical Education? An introduction - Martyn Standage, Thomas Curran, Richard Ryan.- Chapter 4. Trans-contextual model of motivation: from PE lessons to leisure-time - PA.Rabia Majeed, Martin Hagger.- Chapter5. PE teacher's role to motivate students and promote PA: An introduction to teaching behaviors - Katrien De Cocker, Leen Haerens.- Chapter 6. Promoting a growth mindset in physical education - Chris Spray and colleagues.- Chapter 7. Antecedents of PE teaching behaviors - Geraldine Escriva-Bulley, Philippe Sarrazin, Leen Haerens.- Part 2: Applied proposals: How can a PE teacher develop motivation in students?.- Chapter 8. Motivational teaching behaviors from a circumplex view - Katrien De Cocker, Nele Van Doren, Leen Haerens.- Chapter 9. Motivational teaching behaviors for SDT-based PE - David González-Cutre, Roberto Ferriz, Jose A. Julián, Asghar Ahmadi, Michael Noetel,Chris Lonsdale.- Chapter 10. Development of autonomy support in PE teachers: The ASIB model - Johnmarshall Reeve and Sung Hyeon Cheon.- Chapter 11. The V-Observer: a tool for motivational teaching behaviors development - Katrien De Cocker, Arne Bouten, Leen Haerens.- Chapter 13. Fostering need supportive behaviors in Physical Education through web-based interventions - Henri Tilga and Andre Koka.- Chapter 14. Motivational climates from AGT: task climate as a motivational tool - Luis García-González and colleagues.- Chapter 15. Novelty as a motivational experience. How to create novelty in PE lessons - David González-Cutre, Roberto Ferriz, Alejandro Jiménez-Loaisa.- Chapter 16. Feedback and assessment as a tool for the development of students' motivation - Christa Krijgsman, Lars Borghouts, Athanasios Mouratidis.- Chapter 17. Models-based practice and motivation: which pedagogical models are better for motivation? - Javier Fernández-Rio, Mats Hordvik, Ashley Casey.

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