The fourth edition of Coaching Youth Basketball stresses fun, safety, and effective instruction, helping you create an environment that promotes learning, helps your kids enjoy their basketball experiences, and motivates your athletes to come out year after year. Numerous coaching books present the skills and drills of basketball. But here’s a book that teaches you how to convey these skills to your athletes in an engaging and positive manner. Coaching Youth Basketball’s focus on teaching offensive and defensive skills through gamelike activities sets it apart from the current lineup of basketball coaching books. And, it’s the only one written with the expertise of USA Basketball’s Don Showalter.

The fourth edition includes new activities and age-specific coaching tips that are sure to jump-start your practices, all in a reorganized format geared for sequential learning and quick reference. The expertise of USA Basketball combined with essential coaching skills like communicating with parents and officials, motivating players, and preparing for games and practices make this book a must-read as you prepare to meet the challenges and enjoy the rewards of coaching young athletes.

Zone Press Variations for Winning Basketball (2nd Edition) presents an overview of all types of the zone press: the full-court zone press, the three-quarter-court zone press, and the half-court zone press. Profusely illustrated, the book shows coaches how to align their personnel in each of the various zone presses. The book also presents a method for disguising your zone press so that it will confuse your opponent. The steps for regrouping your team to prevent a score if another team breaks your zone press are also explained thoroughly. Furthermore, throughout the book, the basic fundamentals of individual defense are reviewed and reinforced so that you can teach the zone press more effectively. Finally, the book features a substantial number of drills which have been diagrammed to facilitate your efforts to teach and install zone presses into your defensive scheme.

A comprehensive collection of sport-specific interval runs that can help coaches of any sport take advantage of the innumerable benefits of sound interval training. Includes all target and recovery time calculations, along with a progressive plan and weekly training options. Offers an introduction to interval training, and covers administering pre-established interval training workouts, altering/designing new workouts, progressive training, and features the comprehensive interval workout catalog (including 528 pre-established interval workouts). Also includes interval venue diagrams and descriptions, percentage speed charts, recovery time charts, sample workout recording forms, and more. Large format with hundreds of clear, easy-to-read and apply charts.