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Book on Animal Tracks
I enjoy helping Boy Scouts develop the ability to enjoy the outdoors,This year the Boy Scouts of America opened up four merit badges that had been closed out long ago.This is to celebrate the 100th year of BSA. Our Troop chose to do the Tracking Merit Badge. This book is a great aid for such a purpose.

petersons feild guides
this was a replacement for a lost feild guide that iI already owned but I've used the peterson's guides for years in learning and teaching.. excelant books for the money and unsurpassed in their information...

Great all-around book
This is a great all around field guide. Good pictures and discriptions. Not good if you are trying to start off. Maybe start with Jon Youngs "Animal Tracks And Signs". Really great to have out on the trail though!

Great book, very comprehensive
This book is excellent.

Great sketches.
Great photos.
Excellent information.
I will keep this with me on any outings where I will be tracking unfamiliar quarry or simply interpreting what I come across.

Definitely recommended.

A Classic
The original Peterson's Field Guide to Animal Tracks by Olaus Murie has been an inspiration to generations of trackers, naturalists, and wildlife enthusiasts.It was the first in-depth guide of its kind, and in addition to numerous illustrations of tracks and animal sign, Murie added colorful stories of his own experiences in the great outdoors. The book transcended mere field guide status into the ranks of the classics of natural history.

In the most recent revision of this classic, Mark Elbroch has done an exceptionally tasteful job of updating the guide. He worked to enhance the work of Murie, but keep the essence of the classic work. In particular, Elbroch re-arranged the animal species into phylogenetic order (the order by which animals are related through the course of evolution) allowing for the many advances within the scientific community since the original book was published, and added many color photographs to enhance the illustrations of Murie. As Elbroch notes, the book is still the one Murie wrote; Elbroch simply acted as a caretaker to bring this great book to generations more.

I would recommend this book highly to anyone with an interest in animals or natural history.
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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

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USA Track & Field Coaching Manual
The manual provides information that will help the beginning coach understand the duties and responsibilities of a coach and how to organize and run a track and field program. However, some of the training concepts, particularly those related to sprint and hurdle events are somewhat outdated, though the coverage of fundamentals related to teaching sprint starts and hurdling technique are well worth the read.The manual needs to be updated to reflect what research shows limits speed in sprinting. The "Spring-Mass Model" should be discussed. The concepts of "Mass-specific Force" and "Ground Force Support" as they relate to top-end running speed should be included. The manual should include up-to-date "minimalist" training protocols that target speed improvement for sprinters without using "old school" drills which have been shown not to improve speed, and sub-maximum speed over-distance runs that have no bearing on speed improvement or "speed-endurance", and in most instances inhibit faster running in sprinters.

USA Track. This was for a grandson that is on the track team
My grandson wanted to poll vault and run track. This book is old, but as great on for the beginner. Thanks

Excellent text
This book provides great insight to a variety of training methods and should be a must for any coach, at any level. There is a level of specificity and clarity to each of the different chapters, and I am particularly caught with the ease of reading even the most technical terms. One could argue that the sprinter training developed is much more specific than the distance running, but the effort, energy and research put into this book's development is solid.

Great book
Great book for beginning coaches.Supplement it with a book that includes more info on drills and training routines.

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. ... Read more

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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 (6)

Must Read for TF Coaches
Great book with many ideas and explanations.Good for experienced coaches and great for new coaches or novices.

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. ... Read more

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Coaching Youth Track & Field stresses fun, safety, and effective instruction, helping you create an environment that promotes learning, encourages a love of the sport, and motivates your athletes to come out year after year.

Numerous coaching books present the skills, drills, and activities of track and field. But here's a book that teaches you how to convey those skills to your athletes in an engaging and positive manner.

Written by the American Sport Education Program (ASEP) in conjunction with Matt Lydum and other experts from Hershey's Track & Field Games and USA Track & Field (USATF), Coaching Youth Track & Field is the only resource available today aimed at coaches of athletes ages 14 and under.

Coaching Youth Track & Field includes the following:

• Activities specifically designed for young track and field athletes
• Fundamentals of all of the events in track and field (USATF and Hershey's Track and Field Games)

Coaching Youth Track & Field's 73 activities and 32 age-specific coaching tips are sure to jump-start your planning and practices and help you overcome any hurdle encountered during the season. Plus, sequenced and specific chapters help you learn, retain, and reference in a flash.

Endorsed by USATF and named the official handbook of Hershey's Track & Field Games, this book is a must-read as you prepare to meet the challenges and enjoy the rewards of coaching young athletes. ... Read more

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Good Book
Although a little dated, it still had some useful information for coaching Jr. High Track and Field.

Youth track and field
the book is very helpful with technique and attitude.we carry it with us in our coach bag ... Read more

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High-Performance Training for Track and Field by legendary coaches and authors Bill Bowerman and Bill Freeman is a step-by-step guide for teacher-coaches at all levels. Coaches in their first years will find it to be a model for success, and experienced coaches will find its systematic analyses of training methods an invaluable addition to their own expertise. This book adds the theoretical bases that underlie training, summarizing what researchers know about training and competition and discussing the most advanced, scientifically monitored, foreign endurance training system in the world today. It tells, briefly and simply, what you need to know about periodization in training, overload theory, and the effects of nutrition and psychology on today s training. The training patterns reflect the very latest scientific training methods. Chapters include: The Essentials of Scientific Training, The Oregon School of Running, Sprints, Hurdles, and Relays, The Jumps, The Throws, The All-Around Athlete, and Directing Track and Field Programs. ... Read more

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Bowerman High-Performance
This is the book to have for all track coaches.It explains the periodization of all the events.I would strongly recommend this book for the beginner and expert. ... Read more

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This book includes training schedules for 15 events that can be adapted for any athlete, regardless of age, sex, or level. Part I, Foundations for the Training Program, presents the basics of sport training and conditioning, designing training programmes, the Oregon training schedule sheets, and testing team candidates. Part II, The Training Programs, includes these events: short sprints and relays, long sprint (400 metres), high hurdles, intermediate hurdles, middle distances (800 and 1500 metres and the mile), longer distances (cross country, steeplechase, 5000 metres and longer), high jump, long jump, triple jump, pole vault, shot put, discus throw, javelin throw, hammer throw, and combined events. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (7)

Son recommends it
Son used it for college and really thought it was a great book. He now is a long distance runner, so something worked!!!!!
Plus written by Bowerman - Oregon's coach of Steve Prefontaine....well, we know PRE got the benefit from this man!!!!

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. ... Read more

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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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Good
This Book is in good shape and will work perfect for my class! Thank you ... Read more

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This unique sports and labour history charts the revolutionary transformation of track and field over the past thirty years. In this time, the sport has changed from an amateur effort whose governing bodies unfairly controlled its athletes' lives to a professional arena in which athletes have the power to make decisions in their own best interests. While historians have chronicled labour history in team sports such as baseball and football or have lumped track and field into larger studies of Olympic history, Joseph M. Turrini is the first to scrupulously detail the efforts of athletes to reorder labour relations in track and field and to end their decades-long power struggle with governing bodies. Combining social and institutional history and incorporating the recollections of the athletes and meet directors on the front lines, "The End of Amateurism in Track and Field" shows how the athletes thoroughly transformed their sport to end the amateur system in the early 1990s - changes that allowed the athletes to market their potential, drastically increase their earning possibilities, and improve their quality of life.This book reveals how athletes in the 1950s began to harness the courts, legislature, and little-known underground labour relations systems that grew within the sport to untangle the distribution of power and decision-making by the 1990s. Enlivening the narrative with stories such as runner Wes Santee's battle with the Amateur Athletic Union and revelations about the actions of college coaches and rivalries between the NCAA and AAU, Turrini examines the effects of amateurism on athletes and explores how changes in the economic context of track and field and the role of the government helped leverage the end of the 100-year era of amateur track and field. ... Read more

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The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Track and Field is the most comprehensive and up-to-date track and field-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round track and field-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results. Athletes of all events, from sprinting to shot put, have used and benefited from the information in this text.

No other track and field book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book will have all types of track & field athletes increasing speed, flexibility, power, strength, and endurance unlike any book before it. No longer will you find yourself becoming tired at the end of an event or losing distance on javelin or discus throws due to fatigue. By following this program you will eclipse your previous records and eliminate unnecessary injuries.

Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too!

As an added bonus, this book also contains links to free record keeping charts which normally sell separately for $20. ... Read more

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The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Track and Field is the most comprehensive and up-to-date track and field-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round track and field-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results. Athletes of all events, from sprinting to shot put, have used and benefited from the information in this text.

No other track and field book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book will have all types of track & field athletes increasing speed, flexibility, power, strength, and endurance unlike any book before it. No longer will you find yourself becoming tired at the end of an event or losing distance on javelin or discus throws due to fatigue. By following this program you will eclipse your previous records and eliminate unnecessary injuries.

Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too!

As an added bonus, this book also contains links to free record keeping charts which normally sell separately for $20. ... Read more

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not worth the effort!
This book has very little to do with weight training for specific events in track and feild. What this book really is , is a half assed attempt to introduce , to the reader , proper weightlifting technique.
Many of the exercises listed have little to do with track and feild.
I was very generous in giving it one star!

Worst Track and Field Weight Training Book I Have Ever Read
This book is completely useless for track and field conditioning.The weight programs seem fine for somebody who wants to do body building but for improving track and field performance they are useless.The book focuses on upper body lifting at high reps, and ignores all Olympic lifting, and barely touches on power lifting.The diagrams for the lower body exercises do not even show proper technique.

Training Track and Field
The book is exelen, and doing what it says and is wonderful. I recomende this book to coaches an athletes. ... Read more

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Kenenisa Bekele graces the cover of Athletics 2010 after his unique 5000m/10,000m double at the World Championships in Berlin. While sprinter Usain Bolt, the cover man of 2009, filled up most of the column inches with his world records at 100m and 200m, Bekele's double was as fine an athletics achievement. He showed he is the greatest distance runner of all-time. Athletics 2010 is the yearbook of the Association of Track & Field Statisticians and has been published every year since 1951 - a year after the organisation was founded. Once again this book is essential reading for all enthusiasts of track and field. ... Read more

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An introduction in understandable language to the concepts of biomechanics and their application to each t&f event. Essential reading for any coach interested in proper technique and performance improvement. Well illustrated. 55 photos, 31 other illus. 1996. ... Read more

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A Must Read!
If you are an experienced or novice coach, this is a must read! This book explains the basic biomechanics of track and field in each event.It explains inertia, air resistance and many other factors that take place in track and field.It is also an easy read and not over the top.You will definitely come away with clarity that you can pass on to your athletes. Out of the 22 track and field books I own, this is one of the best ever. ... Read more

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Periodization for American Track & Field, Dr. William H. Freeman. 4th edition (2001) of the first comprehensive treatment of periodized training (or how to peak for the big meets) for the American coach. All event groups covered. Essential reading for the coach. ... Read more

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Peak When It Counts : Periodization for American Track and Field
This was by far the most useful book I have ever purchased.This is an excellent tool for any coach (new or experienced). The information Mr. Freeman provides (charts,tables, etc.), takes you from the very beginning of the process through to the end.It is the most complete training guide available. ... Read more

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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

Customer Reviews (3)

excellent
great book about track and field coaching. I love it; gives answers to a lot of technical issues that I never knew of.Happy I bought it.

Helpful, bit out of date
This is very helpful for a head coach, it gives an overview of all aspects of track.The book is a bit out of date but most things still apply, being that running doesn't change, just the kids and equipment.Great book

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

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The Rise and Fall of a College Sport

On the campus of a small southwest Virginia college, students and coaches struggled to begin and sustain their new sport of track and field athletics. The program originated in annual field days, which consisted of running, jumping, and throwing, along with fun events like sack races. By the 1920s the school tried to schedule a limited program of intercollegiate track and field meets annually. In some years, there were no meets. In others, there were only a few, although individual performances by athletes were very acceptable for a small school. Unfortunately, after 1930 the sport was eliminated altogether from campus activities, despite the recent addition of a new 440-yard cinder track. Why? Was it a lack of coaching, little money to meet expenses, or perhaps a clash with football and basketball for the best athletes? In this book, you will read about the many reasons. You will also get a meet-by-meet summary of track and field athletics at the college during the years from 1895 through 1930, with a full listing of school records. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Track and Field," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Track and Field in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Track and Field when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Track and Field, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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Describes the skills and techniques used in the running, jumping, throwing, and vaulting events that make up track and field sports. ... Read more

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Useful Book
If you don't mind doing a little thumbing through pages each time you want to identify specific tracks or scat you've come across, this book is pretty good and helpful.

Broad Coverage & Clear Drawings
This book has excellent drawings of tracks, scats, bird pellets and sometimes nests. Each entry has a map of North America showing the range of the subject.

While some field books on tracking cover just animals this book covers invertebrates, amphibians (frogs included) birds, marsupials, Insectivores and many others.

Each entry takes two facing pages which provide a nice drawing of the subject on the left side and drawings of the track and often scat and nests on the right side.

Each entry follows the same format:

1. A description, beside the drawing of the subject.

2. Track.

3. Trail.

4. Scat.

5. Habitat.

6. Similar species.

7. Other sign.

If you are looking for a book that tells you about the habits and / or life style of the subject this is not the book to fill that need.

Combined with Animal Tracking Basics which does an excellent job of covering the "how to" of tracking a better introduction the the basics of tracking would be hard to find. ... Read more