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It feels counterintuitive to specialize instead of generalizing, but coaches who niche down end up making more money. The trick is to choose a niche correctly. Generalizing will hurt your business in the long run.
It is not helpful or necessary to try to appeal to everyone.
Two important questions to ask yourself when choosing a niche market are:
Once these two questions are answered, you are on your way.
Do you consider yourself to be bold and confident enough to play a major role in the lives of other people? Or do you think you have a passion for teaching or helping people to succeed by guiding them towards their short or long term goals?
If so, you probably might be considering the kind of career you can venture into with these abilities. I believe you should actually start thinking about taking up a career as a professional trainer/coach. [Read more…]
Now that you better understand what achievement motivation and competitiveness involve and how they develop and influence psychological states, you can draw implications for professional sports psychology and coaching practice. To help you consolidate your understanding, we now discuss methods you can use to help the people you work with.
You now know that the interaction of personal and situational factors influences the motivation that particular students, athletes, and exercisers have to achieve. What should you watch for to guide your practice? Essentially, you assess:
Some coaches believe that teams win games with an outstanding defense, other coaches believe that teams win through a wide-open offensive system, and still, others believe that wins come through a structured and controlled game plan. Like coaches, sport psychologists differ in how they view successful interventions.
Contemporary sport and exercise psychologists may choose from many orientations to the field, three of the most prevalent being psychophysiological, social–psychological, and cognitive–behavioral approaches.
Motivation can be defined simply as the direction and intensity of one’s effort. Sport and exercise psychologists can view motivation from several specific vantage points, including achievement motivation, motivation in the form of competitive stress, and intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.
These varied forms of motivation are all parts of the more general definition of motivation. Hence, we understand the specifics of motivation through this broader, holistic context, much as a football coach views specific plays from the perspective of a larger game plan or offensive or defensive philosophy. But what exactly do these components of motivation—direction of effort and intensity of effort—involve?
Today, sport and exercise psychology is more popular than ever before. It is a mistake, however, to think that this field has developed only recently. Modern sport psychology dates back to the 1880s, and references to psychology can be traced back to the ancient Olympic Games (Kremer & Moran, 2008).
The history of sport psychology mirrors the history of other fields such as psychology, physical education, and kinesiology. In addition, the field has been influenced by larger sociocultural developments such as the growth of the Olympic movement, women’s liberation efforts, and the popularity of professional sport (Gould & Voelker, 2014).
The history of sport psychology falls into six periods, which are highlighted here along with specific individuals and events from each period.
These various periods have distinct characteristics and yet are interrelated. Together they contributed to the field’s development and growing stature.
AntioxidantsAntioxidants are substances or nutrients in our foods which can prevent or slow the oxidative damage to our body. When our body cells use oxygen, they naturally produce free radicals (by-products) which can cause damage. Antioxidants act as “free radical scavengers” and prevent and repair the damage done by these free radicals.
Sleep hygiene
Every person wants to live a healthy and happy life, but most of us are careless in many useful things which helps us to improve our health and daily life. Apart from healthy eating habits, proper sleep is one of the most important things to be healthy, fresh and happy.
Sleep hygiene is a practice or habit which follows a proper schedule for sleep which is necessary for the daytime alertness. It also includes the behaviors and rituals towards the sleep or in a simple way it is your approach towards the sleep.
In modern day life sleep, hygiene education must be given to the students, not at school levels but also at college and university levels as sleep education is the important section in the cognitive-behavioral therapy used to treat insomnia.
Effect of environment on sleeping hygiene:
Role of the environment is very important in every person’s life as a person feels comfortable in a stable and friendly environment so in the same sleeping environment is also very important for the peaceful and sound sleep. Soo you should develop such a comfortable environment which improves your sleeping time and sleeping hygiene.
You can’t think about what you don’t want to think about without thinking about it. Think about it; better yet, don’t think about it, and you’ll get my point.
If your clients are more focused on what they don’t want, instead of what they do want, they will most likely be getting just that – exactly what they don’t want.
The Athlete who is constantly focusing on ‘not losing’ will typically lose more than the athlete who consistently focuses on ‘always winning’.
How Sleep Affects Appetite
Having an adequate, high-quality, restful sleep is an important part of adhering to healthy eating plans. Metabolic problems associated with overeating include high body mass index (BMI) and long-term health risks like obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and some types of cancer. The National Sleep Foundation recommends that adults aged 18-64 years should have sleep duration of 7-9 hours every day (Hirshkowitz, Whiton & Albert et al., 2015).
Sleep-related problems can affect how our bodies regulate food intake and can increase hunger and our appetite to eat more food.