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Youth Performance Coach Certification
Youth sport coaching is essential in the development of young athletes, both physically and mentally. This credential will teach you how to provide young athletes with guidance, support, and instruction. Your confidence and training will help young participants learn skills and abilities in competition that endure for life. Learn specific sport coaching techniques by age and become part of the solution to keep our youth active in sports and physical activity.
Youth performance coaching is vital because it provides young athletes with the structured and organized training needed to keep our young people active. Coaches help young athletes improve techniques, learn new strategies, and develop a respect for physical fitness.
Learn the importance of helping young athletes set and achieve goals, both short-term and long-term, which can boost their motivation and self-esteem.
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Youth Performance Coach
$397
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The YPC Certfication is designed for new and advanced coaches and trainers who want to specialize in the areas of youth athletics, youth mentorship and leadership for the next generation.
Learning Objectives:
Learning About Participants, Coaching Principles and Participation, Planning Your Programs, Healthy Participants/Healthy Environments, Nutrition, When Young Athletes Get Hurt, Managing Your Program
Specialize In:
- Teaching Sport Skills Effectively in a Positive Sports Environment
- Using Post-Sessons Coaching Reflections
- Game/Event Coaching
- Pre-competition Mental Preparation
- Team Sports Routines and Designing a Competition-Day Schedule
- The Muscular System, The Cardiorespiratory System, The Anaerobic Energy System, The Aerobic Energy System
- Continuous, Specificity, and Creativity in Training
- Teaching Sport Skills Effectively in a Positive Sports Environment
- Using Post-Sessons Coaching Reflections
- Game/Event Coaching
- Pre-competition Mental Preparation
- Team Sports Routines and Designing a Competition-Day Schedule
- The Muscular System, The Cardiorespiratory System, The Anaerobic Energy System, The Aerobic Energy System
- Continuous, Specificity, and Creativity in Training
YOUTH PERFORMANCE COACH & SPEED, AGILITY & QUICKNESS COACH
$543
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What does it mean when you become a Certified Youth Performance Coach?
When kids and teens participate in physical activity, is it for fun, play or competitive sport? Youth Performance Coaching focuses on this specialty of coach training, zeroing in on players and athletes in their youth. Ages for this group can range from 3 until 18 years of age.
Spanning a period of time of growth and maturity before adulthood, experiences from participation can shape nearly everything about who are and what we become.
Becoming certified has many benefits. It allows you to expand your knowledge to serve a special population. For participants, it improves their overall sports experience by coaching from an informed position of authority. This will help to overcome the current problems with youth participation in physical activity which includes anything from poorly trained coaches or volunteers to overbearing, demanding parents – who jeopardize the quality of the sporting experience for young players.
With structured, formal training that zeroes in on this group, your credential will contribute to a growing collection of coaches who are more informed, more effective and successful in professional careers “coaching kids”. Both the CYPC and participants see the results and benefits.
Part of your education involves knowing what and whom you are coaching, especially when it includes a special population. Another perspective involves how you work (apply) what you have learned into the groups which you serve.
Coaches with a specialty are more valuable.
Coaches are an important link in the development of young athletes. They are not only responsible for providing technical instruction but also for creating a safe and positive environment that fosters growth and development. Coaches are role models, providing young athletes with a positive influence and guidance at a time when it is needed most!
A Certified Youth Performance Coach (CYPC) working with young players has to understand youth participants in organized sport, competitions and general physical activity. The CYPC has to understand the different needs of this important group; an 8-year-old T-ball player is not coached the same as a 12-year-old soccer player - for many reasons. We have a responsibility to coach youth participants intelligently. This, alone, may help ease the drop-out rate seen in youth sports.
Over time, we have studied and thus learned more about participants; this quest for knowledge related specifically to youths in our society comes from a need based on trends seen -namely, the positive attributes of participation and then keeping kids engaged in competition, organized games or sports. Up until recent times, the study of youth participation in sport has centered largely trying to understand very specific and unique aspects of a few elite participants – the very young kids who train with the most elite coaches with dreams of rising to Olympic level status. You can aim for a great coaching job like that if you have the skills, knowledge and abilities.
This specialty education and certification program builds on the fundamentals that elevate our understanding of everything related to this unique coaching specialty and the participants involved. It is the result of all the latest we know about young people participating in sports. We also look closely at the role of parents in this process.
Your course begins with an introduction which explains the basis for youth sport coach training.
Then it progresses to the following modules:
Lesson 1 – Learning About Participants
Lesson 2 – Coaching Principles and Participation
Lesson 3 – Planning Your Programs
Lesson 4 – Healthy Participants/Healthy Environments
Lesson 5 – Nutrition
Lesson 6 – When Young Athletes Get Hurt
Lesson 7 – Managing Your Program
Youth sport coaching helps develop self-discipline, time management skills, and a strong work ethic
It wasn’t until the rise in popularity of exercise and sport psychology that we started closely examining the mental and cognitive measures that relate to this age-based special population. This has now expanded into a whole new field that is still re-evaluating many fitness behaviors based on participation. Coaches that feel well-trained are more confident because they are better prepared to face the unknowns presented by their clients – which may now include children in groups. Combined with an emphasis on behaviors and outcomes for kids, youth performance coaches can provide the best experience possible for children and supporting parents.
Youth Performance Coaches play a crucial role in guiding, supporting, and instructing young athletes, helping them to develop their skills and abilities, while fostering a positive and supportive environment. The benefits of youth sport coaching go beyond the development of physical fitness and technical skills, as it can also promote essential life skills, sportsmanship, and self-discipline.
Why we need to improve youth coaching and coach training:
Provide better experience for kids in physical activity settings
Keep children engaged and active
Participants have better outcomes, often continuing into adulthood
Support children at age-appropriate levels of interaction
Understand the needs of participants at different ages
Coaches have more meaningful outcomes (success is not always winning)
The role of parents is understood and managed with respect
Here is a list of topics covered:
Teaching content: Putting the “what” in a positive sport setting
Learning Process for players: The “How” in a Positive Sport Setting
Competition: Creating a Successful and Positive Sports Environment
Teaching Sport Skills Effectively in a Positive Sports Environment
Using Post-Sessons Coaching Reflections
Game/Event Coaching
Pre-competition Mental Preparation
Team Sport Routines
Designing a Competition-Day Schedule
Social Myths and Modern Dilemmas
General Considerations for Training
Creativity in Training
Program Details
Program Title: Youth Performance Coach Certification & Business System
Credential You Will Earn: Certified Youth Performance Coach (CYPC)
Program Overview: Comprehensive online, self-paced Youth Performance Coach Training and Certification, which includes techniques, methods and strategies for desired coaching outcomes. The program is designed for working with youths in a wide age range.
Course Objective: To provide you with all the tools to work with young athletes, players and participants in a variety of age-based settings.
Approvals: ISSA 20 CEUs, Spencer Institute 2.0 CEUs, NESTA 2.0 CEUs, ITCA 2.0 CEUs, MMACA 2.0 CEUs
Prerequisites: None
Recertification Requirements: Certification is valid for (2) two years. You are required to complete 2.0 units (20 hours) of CEUs (continuing education credits) to keep your certification valid. Please review the 2-Year Recertification Guide for further details.
Learning Format: Online format of materials including comprehensive video training, detailed digital manual, and non-proctored online exam. Internet access is required. Content is provided in an online format which is accessed through our secure Learning Portal.
Once your register, you will be directed to create your student account. You may begin your studies immediately after registering, or log in to your student account later to start your studies. You will also receive an email confirmation.
The materials will be released to you at one time. You can test when you are ready.
You may take up to one year to complete the program, and review the materials as often as you like. You will immediately know the results after you take your test. Most students finish within 4 – 6 weeks.
Exam Requirement: Passing a 50-question (multiple choice), 120 minute, non-proctored online exam with 70% or higher. Three attempts at the exam are given. Results are known immediately.
Retest Fee: $95 retest fee applies if the passing requirement is not met at the end of the third exam attempt.
Expected time for completion: On average, this course takes 20 hours of study to complete. Access your student account as needed to complete your studies. Course should be completed within one year of purchase.
Is this program accredited?
The Spencer Institute is accredited by The Certification and Accreditation Board of the American Association of Drugless Practitioners (AADP). The AADP is a professional accrediting association which recognizes traditional and non-traditional programs in the United States and around the world.
Why is having a certification in this field of work important?
To show you have competence to both effectively and properly work with youth sport participants using various methods of application.
Upon successful completion of your certification(s), you can start coaching anywhere you live, work or play. We will support you each step of the way.
