Reading List

THE COMPLETE
SPORTS
PERFORMANCE
READING LIST
ABOUT THIS GUIDE
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CONTENTS
5 Must Read Sports
Performance Books
5 Must Read Non Sports
Performance Books
Full Sports Performance Book
List
Full Non Sports Performance
Book List
PART ONE
5 MUST READ
SPORTS
PERFORMANCE
BOOKS
5 MUST READ SPORTS
PERFORMANCE BOOKS
BOOK #1
High-Performance Training for
Sports changes the landscape of
athletic conditioning and sports
performance. This groundbreaking
work presents the latest and most
effective philosophies, protocols and
programmes for developing today's
athletes.
High-Performance Training for Sports features contributions
from global leaders in athletic performance training,
coaching and rehabilitation. Experts share the cutting-
edge knowledge and techniques they've used with
Olympians as well as top athletes and teams from the NBA,
NFL, MLB, English Premier League, Tour de France and
International Rugby.
Click here to get it on Amazon

High Performance Training for Sports
By David Joyce & Daniel Lewindon

5 MUST READ SPORTS
PERFORMANCE BOOKS
BOOK #2
Developed by the National Strength
and Conditioning Association
(NSCA) and now in its fourth
edition, Essentials of Strength
Training and Conditioning is the
essential text for strength and
conditioning professionals and
students.
This comprehensive resource, created by 30 expert
contributors in the field, explains the key theories,
concepts, and scientific principles of strength training and
conditioning as well as their direct application to athletic
competition and performance.

Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning
By Travis Triplett and Gregory Haff

5 MUST READ SPORTS
PERFORMANCE BOOKS
BOOK #3
Sports Injury Prevention and
Rehabilitation integrates world-class
best practice in sports medicine and
physical therapy with training and
conditioning techniques based on
cutting-edge sports science.
In this ground-breaking book, leading sports injury and
rehabilitation professionals, strength and conditioning
coaches, biomechanists and sport scientists show how this
integrated model works across the spectrum of athlete
care. In every chapter, there is a sharp focus on the return
to performance, rather than just a return to play.

Sports Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation: Integrating
Medicine and Science for Performance Solutions
By David Joyce & Daniel Lewindon

5 MUST READ SPORTS
PERFORMANCE BOOKS
BOOK #4
Strength and Conditioning for Team
Sports is designed to help trainers
and coaches to devise more
effective high-performance training
programs for team sports.
This remains one of the best evidence-based books of
sport-specific practice to focus on team sports and
features chapters covering neuromuscular training, injury
prevention and specific injury risks for different team
sports. Bridging the traditional gap between sports science
research and practice, it is essential reading for all serious
students of strength and conditioning, and for any
practitioner seeking to extend their professional practice.

Strength and Conditioning for Team Sports: Sport-Specific
Physical Preparation for High Performance
By Paul Gamble
5 MUST READ SPORTS
PERFORMANCE BOOKS
BOOK #5
Train your athletes to perform at the
highest level with the lowest risk of
injury. New Functional Training for
Sports, Second Edition provides
some of the best information to
produce results on the court, field,
track, and mat, not just in the weight
room.
Boyle presents the concepts, methods, exercises, and
programs that maximize athletes’ movements in
competition. A series of functional assessments help in
determining the design of a specific plan for each athlete.
Self-reinforcing progressions in exercises for the lower
body, core, upper body, and ultimately total body give
athletes the balance, proprioception, stability, strength,
and power they require for excelling in their sports. Sample
programs assist in the customization process and ensure
each aspect of preparation for physical performance.

New Functional Training for Sports 2ed
By Michael Boyle
PART TWO
5 MUST READ
NON SPORTS
PERFORMANCE
BOOKS
5 MUST READ NON SPORTS
PERFORMANCE BOOKS
BOOK #1
In Legacy, best-selling author James
Kerr goes deep into the heart of the
world's most successful sporting
team, the legendary All Blacks of
New Zealand, to reveal 15 powerful
and practical lessons for leadership
and business.
Legacy is a unique, inspiring handbook for leaders in all
fields, and asks: What are the secrets of success -
sustained success? How do you achieve world-class
standards, day after day, week after week, year after year?
How do you handle pressure? How do you train to win at
the highest level? What do you leave behind you after
you're gone?

Legacy: What The All Blacks Can Teach Us About The
Business Of Life
By James Kerr
PERFORMANCE BOOKS
BOOK #2
Why are some people and
organisations more inventive,
pioneering and successful than
others? And why are they able to
repeat their success again and
again?
In business, it doesn't matter what you do, it matters WHY
you do it. Start with Why analyses leaders like Martin Luther
King Jr and Steve Jobs and discovers that they all think in
the same way - they all started with why. Simon Sinek
explains the framework needed for businesses to move
past knowing what they do to how they do it, and then to
ask the more important question-WHY?

Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To
Take Action
By Simon Sinek
PERFORMANCE BOOKS
BOOK #3
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective
People is recognised as one of the
most influential books ever written. In
this seminal work, Stephen R. Covey
presents a holistic, integrated,
principle-centred approach for
solving personal and professional
problems.
With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey
reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness,
integrity, honesty and human dignity - principles that give
us the security to adapt to change, and the wisdom and
power to take advantage of the opportunities that change
creates. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has been
the key to the success of legions of business leaders and
individuals the world over.

7 Habits Of Highly Effective People
By Stephen R. Covey
PERFORMANCE BOOKS
BOOK #4
In 1962, fresh out of business school,
Phil Knight borrowed $50 from his
father and created a company with
a simple mission: import high-quality,
low-cost athletic shoes from Japan.
Selling the shoes from the boot of his
Plymouth, Knight grossed $8000 in
his first year.
Today, Nike's annual sales top $30 billion. In an age of
start-ups, Nike is the ne plus ultra of all start-ups, and the
swoosh has become a revolutionary, globe-spanning icon,
one of the most ubiquitous and recognisable symbols in the
world today.
A memoir rich with insight, humour and hard-won wisdom,
this book is also studded with lessons - about building
something from scratch, overcoming adversity, and
ultimately leaving your mark on the world.

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
By Phil Knight
PERFORMANCE BOOKS
BOOK #5
Imagine a world where almost
everyone wakes up inspired to go to
work. This is not a crazy, idealised
notion. In many successful
organisations, great leaders are
creating environments in which
teams trust each other so deeply
that they would put their lives on the
line for each other.
Today's workplaces tend to be full of cynicism, paranoia
and self-interest. But the best organisations foster trust and
cooperation because their leaders build what Sinek calls a
Circle of Safety. It separates the security inside the team
from the challenges outside. Everyone feels they belong
and all energies are devoted to facing the common enemy
and seizing big opportunities.
Leaders who are willing to eat last are rewarded with
deeply loyal colleagues who will stop at nothing to
advance their vision. It's amazing how well it works.

Leaders Eat Last
By Simon Sinek
PART THREE
FULL SPORTS
PERFORMANCE
READING LIST
FULL SPORTS PERFORMANCE
READING LIST
Click on any book to get it on Amazon
Conscious High-Performance Periodization
Coaching Training for Sports Training for Sports
What We Need Is Strength Training Sports Injury
Speed & Coordination Prevention and
Rehabilitation
Special Strength Triphasic Training Comprehensive
Training: Manual Strength and
for Coaches Conditioning

READING LIST
Strength and Science and Strength and
Conditioning Practice of Conditioning for
Strength Training Young Athletes
Strength and New Functional Designing
Conditioning for Training for Sports Resistance
Sports Performance 2nd Edition Training Programs
Science and Strength and Back Mechanic
Development of Conditioning for
Muscle Hypertrophy Team Sports

READING LIST
Essentials of Supertraining The Sports Gene
Strength Training
and Conditioning
The Science of The Governing Advanced
Running Dynamics of Strength and
Coaching Conditioning
Applied Sprint Game Changer Peak Performance
Training

READING LIST
Periodization-6th Applied Sport Strength and
Edition Mechanics 4th Conditioning for
Edition Football

PART FOUR
FULL NON SPORTS

PERFORMANCE
READING LIST
FULL NON SPORTS
PERFORMANCE READING LIST
How To Win Legacy The 7 Habits of
Friends and Highly Effective
Influence People People
The Subtle Art of Shoe Dog The Leadership
Not Giving a F*ck Challenge

FULL NON SPORTS
Start With Why Good To Great Leaders Eat Last
Developing The The Coaching Moneyball
Leader Within You Habit

FULL NON SPORTS
Coaching For Never Eat Alone
Performance

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THE COMPLETE

What books should I read?

We get this question all the time.

So, we at Science for Sport thought we'd put our

knowledge of this industry and which books are best to

good use by supplying you with this complete reading list

that every coach needs to work their way through.

If you're in the industry of sports performance, we highly

recommend that you read the majority of these books.

Would you like one of these books for free?

If so, here's how...

Get your first book free when you

Finding time to read books can be really tough, so most of

the time, we actually prefer to listen to books.

to snag yourself a free book, we'd definitely recommend

checking that out.

Get your first book free

5 Must Read Sports

5 Must Read Non Sports

Full Sports Performance Book

Full Non Sports Performance

Sports changes the landscape of

athletic conditioning and sports

performance. This groundbreaking

work presents the latest and most

effective philosophies, protocols and

programmes for developing today's

High-Performance Training for Sports features contributions

from global leaders in athletic performance training,

coaching and rehabilitation. Experts share the cutting-

edge knowledge and techniques they've used with

Olympians as well as top athletes and teams from the NBA,

NFL, MLB, English Premier League, Tour de France and

Click here to get it on Amazon

By David Joyce & Daniel Lewindon

and Conditioning Association

(NSCA) and now in its fourth

Training and Conditioning is the

essential text for strength and

conditioning professionals and

This comprehensive resource, created by 30 expert

contributors in the field, explains the key theories,

concepts, and scientific principles of strength training and

conditioning as well as their direct application to athletic

competition and performance.

Click here to get it on Amazon

By Travis Triplett and Gregory Haff

Rehabilitation integrates world-class

best practice in sports medicine and

physical therapy with training and

conditioning techniques based on

cutting-edge sports science.

In this ground-breaking book, leading sports injury and

rehabilitation professionals, strength and conditioning

coaches, biomechanists and sport scientists show how this

integrated model works across the spectrum of athlete

care. In every chapter, there is a sharp focus on the return

to performance, rather than just a return to play.

Click here to get it on Amazon

Medicine and Science for Performance Solutions

By David Joyce & Daniel Lewindon

Sports is designed to help trainers