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One of the main responsibilities of a professional coach is providing feedback that supports their clients’ learning and development. Feedback about performance can benefit your clients, athletes, or team in several ways, and two of the main functions are to motivate and to instruct.
Here are some tips on how to give feedback that helps your clients recognize and avoid their mistakes, and inspires them to achieve their full potential.
In America, our lifestyle is sometimes determined by what we do for work because most weekdays we spend anywhere from 8 to 12 hours working.
In somewhat of a trend that we still see gaining momentum, some larger Fortune 500 companies have come to realize the value of maintaining the health of their employees in order to manage health care costs.
So it then follows, if wellness coaching is effective at implementing effective ways to change lifestyle behaviors, then the need is clearly seen in terms of how valuable a wellness coach can be toward impacting lifestyle behavior change within corporate environments.
Philosophical considerations become important because coaches have to decide whether to develop general athleticism first and sport-specific athleticism second – or develop a quick fix for instant success.
But this disrupts normal progress and may trigger the participant or resort to a quick fix, instant success method. The latter tends to backfire, often resulting in stale phases that interfere with the athlete’s normal progress.
This quick fix method tends to create frustration and motivational problems; this may trigger the athlete to drop out of the activity. [Read more…]
Stress Affects EveryoneWe all experience stress, and an inability to cope with stress can lead to overeating and obesity. Stress also releases hormones that influence body fat storage.
Examples of stress include:
Participants in youth sports fit into three age categories, each with unique characteristics.
While obvious differences exist among the three groups, as a professional youth sports and performance coach it is important for you to recognize that all age groups also share a common belief in having fun and engaging in a personal pursuit of excellence under the guidance of a knowledgeable and committed coach. [Read more…]
“Learning how to learn” specifically having a set of go-to learning strategies give you an overview of how to best assimilate this information and incorporate it into your life skills. As a life coach, health and wellness coach, or professional fitness trainer, it also gives you a template to understand where your clients, employees, customers, colleagues, and others might be blocking themselves from moving forward so that you can better influence them toward their results.
Although many people use the terms arousal, stress, and anxiety interchangeably, sport and exercise psychologists find it important to distinguish between them. Sports Psychologists use precise definitions for the phenomena they study in order to have a common language, reduce confusion, and diminish the need for long explanations.
When you work in the field as a wellness coach, you will notice a fair amount of diversity within the dynamics of coaching people. You will find your skills will include and draw from life coaching, spiritual coaching, health, and fitness coaching, and even some diversity coaching, to help others embrace and celebrate who they are and who they want to be.
Despite all of the advances that are seen in medical science, there are still a lot of people who live an unhealthy lifestyle. These people can be your clients and they are overweight, stressed or indulging in unhealthy behaviors that might include smoking or consuming alcohol excessively, or even using illegal or illicit drugs. The wellness coach needs to be trained to be able to work one-on-one with clients and to help them to find better ways to pursue healthier lifestyles.
Wellness is a choice – a decision your client makes to move toward optimal health.
Wellness is a way of life – a lifestyle you design with your client to allow them to achieve their highest potential for well-being.
Wellness is a process – a developing awareness where there is no end point, but that health and happiness are possible in each moment, here and now.
While physical conditioning and training is always a key component in your client’s preparation, more attention is being paid to an athlete’s mental conditioning, health and strength, and how meditation works to improve these. This makes complete sense when you consider the fact that the mind influences the way we move, behave, and perform on even the most subtle levels. The best athletes understand that their talent and skills won’t measure up if they aren’t mentally prepared come game day.
Learn more about the benefits of meditation for your athlete clients: