Improve your skills as a fitness
coach in this five-week class. You will learn skills used
by the most successful coaches including: matching your
client with fitness activities that meet their needs, skills
and personal styles, the art of dialogue to help establish
and meet client's goals, dealing with resistance and facilitating
positive change in your clients. Call to order your required
textbook 888-330-9487 or www.witseducation.com.
Learning Outcomes:
After successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Discuss
factors that promote or prevent fitness activity participation.
- Explain
the evolution of coaching and define fitness coaching.
- Distinguish
between coaching and counseling.
- Explain determinants
of choice and what impacts changes and participation.
- Explain the psychosocial
demands of sport and fitness activities and the psychological implications
of fitness activity participation.
- Perform an activity
analysis of two fitness activities.
- Identify the essential
ingredients for coaching and characteristics of effective coaches.
- Demonstrate empathy.
- Explain
the power coaches possess.
- Explain transference
and counter-transference in the coaching relationship and explain
2 strategies
for dealing with transference
Pre-Requisite:
This is an intermediate to advanced course for students with some experience
or education.
Methods of Instruction:
Lecture, group discussion, role-play and final examination.
Completion Requirements:
Students must earn a score of 70% or higher on the written exam. Attendance
is required and students are only allowed one excused absence. Students with
an excused absence must schedule a make-up session and complete any work
assigned.
Course Outline:
- Factors
that promote or prevent fitness activity participation,
Coaching, coaching vs. counseling,
lifestyle fitness coaching.
- Determinants of
choice, change, psychosocial demands of sport and fitness activities, psychological
implications of fitness activity participation.
- Activity analyses, essential
ingredients for coaching, characteristics of effective coaches.
- Empathy,
power, transference and counter-transference in the coaching
relationship.
- Review and exam.
Credits:
15 contact hours. Approved for 15 WITS CECs and 1.5 IACET and BOC CEUs.
Additional Resources:
Registered students receive discounts on study DVDs and practice exams. Students
who do not pass the course the first time can retake the course and re-test
for a reduced fee.
Unique Extra's for your success in the W.I.T.S. course:
- Student
workbook (included no charge).
- Student study guide (included
no charge).
- Study video tapes (30% off).
- Review option: sit in on
the course for a second time, if you did not pass the
first time only $100.00
fee.
- Retest: ONLY a $50.00 fee.
- Permanent year round sites
nationwide.
Lifestyle Fitness Coaching
James Gavin
Copyright 2005 ISBN: 0736052062
ISBN13: 9780736052061
296pp
Lifestyle fitness coaching is an emerging field in
the health and fitness industry. Centered on an ongoing
and
guided process of dialogue, Lifestyle Fitness Coaching
offers a systematic approach to help fitness professionals
understand their clients’ needs, interests, and personal
orientations and use the information to direct clients
toward achieving their health and personal goals.
Lifestyle
Fitness Coaching contains detailed information on coaching
dialogues between the health fitness professional
and the client, addressing issues such as the types of
questions to ask, how to provide feedback effectively,
and how to make referrals. The text includes useful information
for guiding program development and learning activities
that help readers understand the material and relate
it to their situations. In addition, an accompanying CD-ROM
contains a Matching Activities and Personal Styles (MAPS)
Inventory, a validated questionnaire that clients complete
to identify their likes and dislikes. The MAPS Inventory
software then generates a report that coaches and clients
can use to guide the coaching process.
Lifestyle Fitness
Coaching presents the necessary skills for professional
development and offers a methodology for
gathering and analyzing personal information about clients
that enables coaches to engage in dialogue about the means
and ends of clients’ sport and fitness programming.
With this text, professionals can do the following: Purchase
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