Book Description
Record-setting athletic performances happen by design, not by accident. Years of learning, training, teaching, competing, and coaching go into developing track and field champions. And it all must start somewhere.

Build a solid foundation for success with Fundamentals of Track and Field. This comprehensive text takes the guesswork out of learning and teaching the basics in all events, including often-excluded events like the 400-meter hurdles, steeplechase, triple jump, hammer throw, and race walking.

Written by former Olympic athlete and veteran coach Gerry Carr, the book presents

• step-by-step instructions progressing from basic skills to intermediate techniques;

• practice drills for mastering each essential skill;

• troubleshooting tables that list common technique errors and corrections;

• coaching tips to improve instruction and organization;

• safety suggestions, performance standards, and assessment tools; and

• nearly 300 high-quality illustrations showing correct technique of each event in sequential detail.

Fundamentals of Track and Field is the best book on the basics in each event. It is the starting point for all those who dream of one day winning a gold medal. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (5)

Required Reading
Fundamentals of track and field covers all the basics.The exercises are creative and easy to apply.Athletes acquire basic skills without too much conscious effort.

Nice To See a Canadian Perspective
We've adopted this book as our Level 1 Coaches Manual.It gets all the major points of each event discipline in easy to understand terms.

Fundamentals of Track and Field by Gerry Carr
This book is a great resource for the physical education teacher or track and field coach. It has broken down each event into simple to understand stages. The coaching tips are of tremendous value to those who work with athletes. The illustrations that show how to perform each event are excellent for visual learners. Information within this book has been used in the preparation of my athletes.

Melvin Baker International Track&Field Coach

Fundamentals of Track and Field
I was happy with this book as soon as I opened the front cover.I am a new track coach who "only has a clue" about track from what I have observed from my star athlete daughter.I am pleased with this bookbecause it has a lot of drawings which show good form in executing running,throwing, and jumping events.It is the perfect book for elementaryschool, middle school track athletes.It gives coaching tips after everyexplaination, common errors and corrections, and lots of drills to helpreinforce the new skills the students learn. I highly recommend it forthe beginning track coach, or the old track coach who is getting stale andneeds new games and drills to keep track fun.

A great book for beginners
I am a middle school track coach and I've found this book very helpful in explaining the basics of all the track and field events.Carr also offers various activities to gradually develop the necessary skills for eachevent.Some of the technique motion pictures are slightly incorrect butI'd highly recommend this book for anybody just starting in track coaching ... Read more

Book Description
Building and maintaining a successful track and field program doesn't happen by chance. And one book is the best bet for making it happen. From planning, organizing, training, and motivating, Coaching Track & Field Successfully offers a comprehensive guide to conducting a winning program.

Season planning. Event coaching. Meet preparation. Postmeet analysis. Athlete-coach communication. This book covers all the issues a coach must effectively address in building and maintaining a championship program. Coaching Track & Field Successfully offers coaches a special look from inside one of the winningest programs in sport, the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, which has claimed 15 Division III national championships since 1986.

Guthrie teaches the essential techniques of the sport, provides simple training programs, and presents a wealth of vital information needed to build a high-caliber team. His teaching progressions, event-specific technical instruction and tips on planning for big events make Coaching Track & Field Successfully the critical resource coaches need to take their teams to the top. ... Read more

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A+++++
Great book for any track coach, new or old!This book explains more than just the basics! ... Read more

Book Description
The USA Track & Field Coaching Manual is the official coaching guide of the sport's national governing body. The manual covers every major event and includes comprehensive, ready-to-apply information from 33 world-class coaches and experts.

Included among the valuable materials are

• proven predictive testing procedures,

• detailed event-specific technique instruction,

• carefully crafted training programs, and

• preparation and performance tactics for success in competition.

Contributing authors to the USA Track & Field Coaching Manual have worked with national, world, and Olympic champions. Each is an event-specific expert who has demonstrated the effective use of coaching art and science to train and inspire their athletes to achieve maximum performance.

The USA Track & Field Coaching Manual is an essential part of any serious track and field coach's library. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (4)

USA Track & Field Coaching Manual
The book arrived in PERFECT new condition.One of the best coaching resourses available in print.Highly recomend to coaches experienced and novice.

USA Track & Field Coaching Manual
Wonderful purchase. This is an informative text with information for beginners as well as veterans of track and field.

A Great Coaching Resource
This is a great Track and Field Coaching Manual.It covers everything Track and Field.This is a manual that every coach should start with.It has very good relay techniques and philosophy as well.I wish that the book cover information on how to best help an athlete recover after races to get ready for additional races that day, or a race on the following day.

Great for athletes who want to win
This book breaks it down to the basics. Any coach or athlete can obtain a lot of knowledge from this book. The athlete who combiens hard work and dedication with the principles in this book WILL WIN. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (7)

Indispensible Reference for New Coaches
There are wonderful gems of wisdom in this coaching manual. I adapted the information in it to start up a grammar school track and field program and we were highly successful in our first season! Coach Wallace gives you the benefits of his 30+ years coaching and it greatly reduced the learning curve for me. This is especially useful for coaches starting up programs on a "shoestring" budget with less-than-optimal facilities. I would highly recommend it to any track and field coach.

Disappointing
Although this book has some helpful information, overall I do not feel that it is ideal for a typical high school track program (in Iowa).There is only information on 300m hurdles, not run in Iowa;we run the 400m hurdles in high school.Also the majority of high schools here do not begin track until February or March, and the training schedule in the book is for a much longer season and seems to be geared more for the college level.

Ok, But!
I found this book to be a valuable resource. I don't like that coach Wallace offers for you to email him for additional info - and when you do, he doesn't reply. Take the offer out of the book then.

I am still learning from you.
I enjoyed reading the T&F Coaches's Survival Guide. Although I attended Lindbloom H.S. in the late 60's I was able to learn from you then and now I am learning from you in the 90's. This is a great book for newCoaches. Please send me an update on what you are currently doing. If wouldbe great to hear about you current successes.

It will help me a lot, as I don't have an asst. coach.
I liked the practice sessions/periods broken up. We do not have indoor track and I was wondering how to use the practice sessions when we start March 8, practice for about 3 to 4 weeks and then have meets on Tues. andSat. till the middle of May and then have our District meet? ... Read more

Book Description
This all-new edition includes descriptions of the habits, habitats, tracks, signs, and ranges of all the mammals of North America, as well as of selected birds, reptiles, amphibians, and insects.More than one thousand line drawings show individual tracks, track patterns, droppings, and gnawed trees.One hundred color photographs further enhance the text.The authors use an anecdotal approach, and the text is filled with inspirational stories, wonderful natural history, and relevant information about the tracks and signs of North American animals. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

Too much information
I purchased this book in hopes of making quick identifications of unknown tracks in the field. Although the book is very thorough, there is no way to sort out the information quickly. It requires too much time to find the track descriptions and sort through all the similar tracks to really be of any practical field use for me.

Thorough
Very thorough.Easy to use.Great detail.We do wish it was hard covered and or a better binding.Concerned that the binding will give in time as it is a book for the outdoors to use comparing tracks to itself. ... Read more

Product Description
As a textbook, Track & Field Omnibook has no equal.For students in college PE track & field classes, it will be the one book they need to understand and teach any and all events in the track & field program.No other book prepares a beginner to coach the sport like Omnibook.But it is also a must-have for verteran coaches.It has been used as a primary one-stop reference for more than 20 years, and now this edition steps up to perform that function for todays high school and college coach. ... Read more

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"How can I set up a track and field program for young children?"

"Getting Started in Track and Field Athletics" introduces the history, rules, techniques and competition strategies of each event. Ways of making this event fun - for even the most un-athletic child - are suggested.

"When should my child start practising?" "Getting Started in Track and Field Athletics" considers this question in depth and offers guidance to parents, teachers and coaches.

Do they use real bullets in the starting gun?" "How can I run in the Olympics?" "Will I ever be able to run that fast?"- These questions, and many others, are common themes of curiosity in young athletes. "Getting Started in Track and Field Athletics" offers answers and suggests practical ways for these athletes to enjoy all this sport has to offer.

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From another coach
I've started looking over this book and Gary Barber has done a great job of capturing what is really needed with starting kids in athletics.Far too man of the "coaches" kids encounter today are ready to have them go pro at any cost.

Gary has done a great job at putting forward the development and making it fun.Assuring that the childs experience is rewarding yet still providing the desire to go higher.A very good piece of work, you should adapt it to the baseball, football and soccer coaches as well. ... Read more

Book Description
Includes descriptions of the habits, habitats, tracks, signs, and ranges of all the mammals of North America.More than 1,000 illustrations show individual tracks, different track patterns, animals in their habitats, droppings, and gnawed trees - every type of clue the tracker needs. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (7)

Best Field Guide
If you own only one animal track field guide - own this one.

Excellent field guide
This is what a field guide should be, clear, concise, and easy to use. My wife who is just starting to tune in to nature loves it. She was up to speed in 10 minutes and loving it from then on.

A must-have tracking classic
When I was a kid running a trapline in northern Michigan, this was the book I carried in my rucksack.Today, more than 35 years later, I've written 2 books of my own on the subject of tracking wildlife, but this book is still on my bookshelf.Olas Murie was a true American pioneer who led the way into an area where no one else had gone before him.He established the first standards, and while modern genetic and other scientific techniques have increased our knowledge of wildlife manifold over what was known in Murie's day, it was he who laid the foundation on which the rest of us build. This book is a must-have for every tracker's library.

Good and comprehensive guide, a little difficult
It is a good and comprehensive guide, it has a lot of animal tracks, I found it a good and complete guide, but honestly sometimes I had a lot of difficult tryng to find some kind of tracks that I found.

In my personal opinion I think that this is a very good book for experts on the field but not so good for beginners in animal tracks. And by the way it doesnt have any color illustration, and altough they are not needed I was very familiar with peterson guides and this one is a little different.

A very useful guide
My wife and I have found this guide to be very useful in interpreting the sign left behind by the creatures resident in our northeastern woods, not only tracks but scat as well (with hundreds of detailed drawings of scat it is as much a guide to those leavings as tracks).The extensive behavioral descriptions are equally useful.I am not clear on the basis for the criticisms contained in the other review concerning animal harassment.Dr. Murie was a dedicated conservationist and President of The Wilderness Society after his retirement from the Fish and Wildlife Service and his respect for the creatures he is describing is evident on every page. While he acknowledges that some tracks were obtained from live-trapped animals, it is clear from the book that the overwhelming mass of the data is from direct field observation from a life spent in the outdoors. ... Read more

Book Description
World Record Breakers in Track & Field Athletics is a complete account of the sport's all-time fastest, highest, and strongest performances. But the book is much more than a listing of dates and statistics; it's a captivating look at the men and women who had the talent, training, skills, and will to make their marks in the sport.

Bannister's mile, Beamon's long jump, and Joyner-Kersee's heptathlon are but a few of the outstanding performers and performances captured so vividly through stories and hundreds of accompanying photographs. The book also selects and highlights its "Gold, Silver, and Bronze medalists," the three best athletes ever to compete in each event.

Athletes, coaches, and fans will treasure World Record Breakers in Track & Field Athletics—a book that sets a new standard in capturing sports history and replaying it for you to enjoy. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

A Powerful Text
'World Record Breakers in Track & Field Athletics' is an excellent record of prominent athletes and their training routines. Gerald Lawson's text is confident and unadorned, and the athletes he cites are significant achievers. Colourful illustrations serve to enliven the prose. So, too, does the Introduction, tightly written by Anna Bolic, the coach of the Hungarian Women's Track Team. An excerpt is worth quoting;

'Gerald Lawson's book is inspiration to our womens of the field and truck. I use this words when I'm coaching the girls and they love Mr Lawson and his prominent testimonials. Mr Lawson warns about steroids and I say to my girls that they should listen as steroids are bad, especially when they promote facial hair and aggressive gesturings. I know they have followed because the team's razor bill is now down to only $800 a week. Mr Lawson also teaches that smoking before an event is harming to the lunks and chesticals, so now they only light up after a run. My girls want to be just like Mr Lawson, without having to wait months for the operation in a pubic hospital.'

'World Record Breakers in Track & Field Athletics' is essential reading for all athletes and coaches.

One of the best books on Track and Field World Record books
This book is one of the best books on Track and Field athletics and World Record breakers that I have ever read and I must say that I have read quitea few books since I became a Track and Field statician in 1978. I myselfhave been very interested in Track since I was young and read about theamazing feats of Bob Hayes in the Tokyo olympics in 1964.I would have tosay that this book is very well written compared to the other books that Ihave read. If you are mildy or very interested in Track and Field Recordbreakers I would have to suggest this book.

This book is unparrelled in its information.
I bought this book a couple of months ago and I found it so interesting that I read it in 2 days. If you want to know all the world record improvements for each event buy this book. Each world record has beenofficially approved by the IAAF so you know it's genuine. ... Read more

Book Description
Children who wish to become track-and-field athletes will findthe book written by a hurdler invaluable. ... Read more

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With this book yu can harness your abilities to achieve jumping and throwing success! ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

This book was really good.
This book is good for you if you are just starting out with little experience. It includes things on technique, training, diet, and drills. It really helped me succed.

Great book on field events for high school athletes. A must.
High school athletes as well as coaches will love this book. It has great photo sequences and is written so the athlete can actually take it to practice.Lots of humor in it to make the technical stuff actually fun andeasy to understand.

A must have book for field event coaches!
I first saw this book a my local library back in 1993 and it has helped me with my coaching at the junior college level ever since.I recommendthis book to field event coaches of all levels. I have been wondering where I could buy this book, because no retail bookstore carries this subject.I even thought about telling the library that I lost it and paying for it that way! Thanks Amazon. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (6)

Awsome Booke
I'm a hurdler and this book provided me with lots of excersizes and times that I should be running.

track and field reference
A very easy to read and follow book on Bowerman's philosophy of training in track and field.A common sense approach that is refreshing.

Great Read--especially for College Track & Field GA's
When I started coaching track as a graduate assistant at a small Division 3 school, I really needed some help creating workouts for my athletes. I found this book to be extremely useful in its content with regards to workouts, sprint/hurdle/field techniques, etc. Of course, it is esstential that you have some type of track and field experience in order to understand what is being presented in the book. Every coach has their own style of presenting workouts. Fortunately, I have experience running track at a Division 1 level school--so I found it easier to use the workouts in accordance with my own style. Don't forget though--as a coach, you need to take into consideration the level of athlete you are dealing with (ie. no experience, some, elite level, etc). Basically you can use these workouts to fit the level of your athletes. I really liked how the authors incorporated an entire year of workouts for every event in track and field. Overall, I thought it was a good investment for any coach at a highschool or college level.

There are no illustrations
There are almost no illustrations of the movements described in this book.There is some good information but I think they are assuming you are already an experienced coach and have seen all these complex movements they talk about.if you are a novice looking for some detailed descriptions of the training movements, along with pictures, this is not the book for you.

Outstanding. Truely a work of masterful instruction.
Whether you are working on your own self improvement or training others, this track and field book is a must. ... Read more