Coaching Beginner Hockey Skills and Drills In A Day For Dummies

by Don MacAdam, Gail Reynolds

Overview

Learn the skills and drills you need as a first-time hockey coach—in a day!

For first-time coaches, Coaching Beginner Hockey Drills and Skills In a Day For Dummies presents the basic practice drills that will sharpen player skills and make coaching fun and effective.

• Includes simple hockey drills that make practice fun
• Features strategies for dealing with challenging parents, preventing injury, and more
• Written by a former professional hockey player and coach and a professional exercise physiologist

This e-book also links to an online component at dummies.com that extends the topic into step-by-step tutorials and other "beyond the book" content.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781118539026
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	11/07/2012
Series:	In A Day For Dummies , #79
Sold by:	JOHN WILEY & SONS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	73
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Don MacAdam is head coach and co-owner of the Dayton Bombers. A former professional ice hockey player himself, MacAdam has more than 25 years of coaching experience at various elite levels, including teams in the National Hockey League (Detroit Red Wings), the American Hockey League (Edmonton Oilers and Ottawa Senators Farm Teams), the IHL (Milwaukee Admirals), Major Junior (500 Greyhounds), and the Japan Ice Hockey League (the Nippon Paper Cranes), as well as several minor-league teams.

Gail Reynolds is an exercise physiologist who has been developing training programs for amateur and elite hockey players and teams over the past 22 years, including NHL stars. A former professor of exercise physiology at the University of New Brunswick, she currently runs her own fitness consulting company. A member of the committee that developed Canada's coaching certification program, Reynolds has also spoken at several Canadian Amateur Hockey Association Level 4 and 5 clinics and lectured at the York symposium for elite coaches. Her articles have appeared in Coaching Review and the Journal of Applied Physiology. Reynolds earned her master's degree in physical education from the University of Western Ontario, where she specialized in exercise physiology and psychology.