商品簡介
Today, it is inconceivable for a professional or even small college sports team to go without a coach designated to enhancing conditioning, strength training, and overall performance.But someone had to be first.In 1976, the Dallas Cowboys and Pro Football Hall of Fame head coach Tom Landry hired Dr. Bob Ward and told him to go to work. Part of the aura of the Dallas Cowboys was to be ahead of the curve, which made hiring Ward a natural step forward. No one could have predicted that Ward would become the key figure in revolutionizing how athletes prepare and train for generation to come.Ward is a self-made American success story who forever changed the game of football as well we know it.
作者簡介
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.
