Physical Best Activity Guide: Middle and High School Levels

The Physical Best Activity Guide offers middle and high school coaches proven methods for positive discipline, games-based teaching of skills, and tailored training programs in energy fitness, muscular fitness, and nutrition. It builds management skills for team success, athlete safety, and collaboration with stakeholders, drawing from ASEP's widely endorsed principles to elevate coaching effectiveness.

The Physical Best Activity Guide for middle and high school levels provides coaches with tools to educate and motivate players while managing problem behaviors through a positive discipline approach.

It introduces the games approach to coaching, detailing how to incorporate this method into teaching technical and tactical skills, and guides the development of instructional plans for practices and entire seasons.

The guide covers principles of physical training, including basics, energy fitness, muscular fitness, nutrition, and strategies to combat drugs, helping coaches create programs that improve sport performance and ensure athlete health and safety.

Principles of management address interpersonal and administrative essentials for building a strong coaching foundation, focusing on team, relationship, and risk management, along with advice on collaborating with coaches, administrators, officials, medical personnel, parents, and the media.

Produced by the American Sport Education Program and endorsed by key organizations, this resource supports professional development and meets certification requirements for coaches.