Physical Education - Coaching Styles and Techniques
Learn about the effectiveness of sports psychology and discover useful coaching techniques and styles, all for free.
Description
A coach is someone who helps people improve in the way they wish to improve and go in the direction they want to go. This course will first discuss the role of a coach in improving performance and the fundamental attributes and skills of a good coach. You will then look into different coaching styles and techniques, learn about legal and illegal ergogenic aids, and about the importance of feedback.
Some people say that performance is 90% mental conditioning and 10% physical conditioning. This course will discuss sports psychology where you will learn how it can influence athletes. You will also look into different sporting injuries, the intrinsic and extrinsic influences on fitness, and the socio-cultural considerations when participating in physical activity. You will also learn the role physical activity plays in the lives of different groups within society.
People want to get fit for different reasons. Upon completion of this course, you will understand the different motivational factors in physical fitness such as health benefits, the discharge of built up emotions, status symbols or social outlets, relaxation, improving personal appearance, or simply as a challenge. You will also learn how participation in physical activity can be promoted using role models and sponsorship. So, check out this course and start learning about effective coaching styles and techniques today.
Modules
Coaching styles
Coaching techniques
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Coaching applications
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Coaching from the beginner to the skilled athlete - cognitive
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Coaching from the beginner to the skilled athlete: associative stage
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Coaching from the beginner to the skilled athlete: autonomous stage
Different groups within society
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Recreation and physical activity for different groups within society
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Promoting involvement in physical activity: children
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Promoting involvment in physical activity: teenages/adulthood
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Promoting involvment in physical activity: the elderly
Illegal ergogenic aids
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Ergogenic aids - illegal
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Ergogenic aids - illegal: amphetamines and ephedrine
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Ergogenic aids - illegal: beta-blockers
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Ergogenic aids - illegal: caffeine
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Ergogenic aids - illegal: anabolic steroids
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Ergogenic aids - illegal: narcotics - analgesics
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Ergogenic aids - illegal: growth hormone
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Ergogenic aids - blood doping and EPO
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Ergogenic aids - tranquillisers
Intrinsic/extrinsic influences on fitness
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Intrinsic/extrinsic influences on fitness
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Promoting involvment in physical activity summary
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Intrinsic/extrinsic influences on fitness attitudes: extrinsic influences on fitness attitudes
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Intrinsic/extrinsic influences on fitness attitudes: gender
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Intrinsic/extrinsic influences on fitness attitudes: age
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Intrinsic/extrinsic influences on fitness attitudes: children/adolescents
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Intrinsic/extrinsic influences on fitness attitudes: adults
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Intrinsic/extrinsic influences on fitness attitudes: elderly
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Intrinsic/extrinsic influences on fitness attitudes: family
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Intrinsic/extrinsic influences on fitness attitudes: culture
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Intrinsic/extrinsic influences on fitness attitudes: peers and school
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Intrinsic/extrinsic influences on fitness attitudes: work
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Intrinsic/extrinsic influences on fitness attitudes: socio-economic status
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Intrinsic/extrinsic influences on fitness attitudes - the media
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Media plays a role in the development and running of sports
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Sports participation categories
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Sports coverage
Influences on physical education
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Promoting involvment in physical activity: positive and negative influential factors
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Promoting involvment in physical activity: positive and negative influential factors - cost and time
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Promoting involvment in physical activity: positive and negative influential factors - education/ethnicity and race
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Promoting involvment in physical activity: positive and negative influential factors - gender
Legal ergogenic aids
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Ergogenic aids - legal
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Ergogenic aids - legal: nutrition
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Ergogenic aids - legal: creatine
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Ergogenic aids - legal: sodium bicarbonate
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Ergogenic aids - legal: colostrum
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Ergogenic aids - legal: HMB
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Ergogenic aids - legal: re-hydration
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Ergogenic aids - legal: carbohydrate loading
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Ergogenic aids - legal: altitude training
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Ergogenic aids - legal: massage
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Ergogenic aids - legal: alchohol and smoking
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Ergogenic aids - legal: mental rehearsal/visualisation
Limits to performance
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Anatomical and physiological differences affecting performance
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Limits to performance: socio-cultural factors
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Biological and socio-cultural factors affecting performance
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Factors affecting performance
Motivational factors
Participation rates
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Promoting involvment in physical activity: role models
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Role models
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Promoting involvment in physical activity: lack of media
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Promoting involvment in physical activity: violence
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Promoting involvment in physical activity: sport and the media in general
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Promoting involvment in physical activity: sponsorship
Socio-cultural considerations
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Participating in sport: socio-cultural factors - gender
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Participating in sport: socio-cultural factors - ethnicity
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Participating in sport: socio-cultural factors - geographical location
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Participating in sport: socio-cultural factors - income and socio-economic status
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Participating in sport: - socio-cultural factors - age
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Participating in sport: socio-cultural factors - disability
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Participating in sport: socio-cultural factors - family influences
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Participating in sport: socio-cultural factors - peers
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Participating in sport: socio-cultural factors - work/occupation
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Participating in sport: socio-cultural factors - school/other institutional influences (clubs)
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Participating in sport: socio-cultural factors - time available
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Participating in sport: socio-cultural factors - politics
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Participation in sport: socio-cultural factors - environment, climate and access
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Participation in sport: the role of the coach
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The media
Sporting injuries
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Common sports injuries
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Injury prevention
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Assessment of injuries
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Managment of soft tissue injury
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Concussion
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Heat stress
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Summary of sports injuries/research topics
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Common sports injuries sample questions
Sports psychology
Fact or fiction activity
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Key points
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Preparing a participation rates report
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Developing a research question
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Sample report
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Styles of questions
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Planning and conducting your survey or interview
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Introductory activity
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Classifying information
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Making conclusions about research
The role of the coach
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The role of the coach in improving performance
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The role of the coach in improving performance: fundamental attributes and skills
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The stereotypical coach
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The role of the coach in improving performance: the importance of feedback
Assessment
Learning Outcomes
After completing this course you will know the effectiveness of a coach when improving team perfomance and the elements that need to be considered to be a good coach. You will gain a good understanding of coaching styles and techniques. This course will help you to understand legal ergogenic aids such as nutrition, creatine, sodium bicarbonate, colostrum, re-hydration and many more important factors that need to be considered in physical activity. You will be more aware of illegal ergogenic aids such as amphetamines, ephedrine, beta-blockers, caffeine, anabolic steroids and many others. You will learn about sports psychology, limits to performance, sporting injuries, and how physical activity affects different social groups as children, teenagers, adults and the elderly. This course will highlight the importance of promoting physical education with positive and negative factors.
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