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:

1. Discuss factors that promote or prevent fitness activity participation.
2. Explain the evolution of coaching and define fitness coaching.
3. Distinguish between coaching and counseling.
4. Explain determinants of choice and what impacts changes and participation.
5. Explain the psychosocial demands of sport and fitness activities and the psychological implications of fitness activity participation.
6. Perform an activity analysis of two fitness activities.
7. Identify the essential ingredients for coaching and characteristics of effective coaches.
8. Demonstrate empathy.
9. Explain the power coaches possess.
10. 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:

1. Factors that promote or prevent fitness activity participation, Coaching, coaching vs. counseling, lifestyle fitness coaching.
2. Determinants of choice, change, psychosocial demands of sport and fitness activities, psychological implications of fitness activity participation.
3. Activity analyses, essential ingredients for coaching, characteristics of effective coaches.
4. Empathy, power, transference and counter-transference in the coaching relationship.
5. 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:

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