Building the Perfect Star: Changing the Trajectory of Sports and the People in Them - Rilegato

Ward, Bob, Dr.; Engel, MAC

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ISBN 10: 0996194436 ISBN 13: 9780996194433

Casa editrice: Ascend Books Llc, 2015

Riassunto

Today, it is inconceivable that a professional or even small college sports team would not have a coach designated to enhance conditioning, strength training, and overall performance. Someone had to be first.

In 1975, the Dallas Cowboys and Pro Football Hall of Fame head coach Tom Landry hired Dr. Bob Ward and told him to do what he does. Landry did not know specifically what Ward did, other than he came highly recommended. Part of the aura of the Dallas Cowboys to be ahead was to stay ahead, which made hiring Dr. Bob Ward not only a natural fit but a necessity.

No one could have predicted that Dr. Ward would become the key figure in revolutionizing how athletes prepare and train for generations to come. Ward believed in "Moneyball" and the analytics long before they became synonymous with sports. He believed in computers within sports long before they became linked. Ward's ways of coaching, teaching, measuring, and analyzing not only apply to sports, but to the overall improvement of life. In the text, readers will find guidelines presented by Dr. Bob Ward that apply to sports, business, and life endeavors.

Born on the Fourth of July to modest means and at one time an orphan, Dr. Bob Ward is a self-made American success story that forever changed the game of sports.

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Dr. Bob Ward was born on the Fourth of July, the some of a World War 1 veteran. Ward became a self-made man and one of the most important players in the evolution of professional sports. A former small college All-American, Ward learned by doing. He trained. He played. He coached.Ward earned his Doctor of Physical Education from Indiana University and studied sports science at it's infancy with the U.S. Olympic team. He took that education and went on to implement it with the Dallas Cowboys in the mid-70s where he joined Tom Landry's coaching staff as the NFL's first full-time conditioning coach.Ward believed in analytics long before it became a part of sports vernacular. What strength and performance coaches, and the athletes themselves, do today to prepare can be traced back to Dr. Bob Ward.Mac Engel is a sports columnist with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. This is his third book. He has covered the Texas Rangers, Dallas Stars, Dallas Mavericks, and Dallas Cowboys as well as multiple Super Bowls, Olympics, NBA Finals, Rose Bowls, and college football championships.His blog, "The Big Mac Blog," was named the Best Blog in Texas according to the Associated Press in 2012. It finished third in 2014.Engel has served as an adjunct professor of journalism at TCU Shieffer School of Journalism and currently serves as an on-air personality and contributor to CBS KRLD The Fan in Dallas.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Ascend Books Llc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0996194436
• ISBN 13: 9780996194433
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 271
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile