Coaching Your Sport

As a coach you are the one that a team or sportsperson looks to for leadership, inspiration and guidance. You can turn around a poorly performing team and make someone a winner. But you can’t do this without the right knowledge and skills.

This course will give you the expertise to produce results in others and the flair to build morale on the hardest of days. The content and theory of this enjoyable and flexible course can be applied to any sport with sport specific subjects for your area of specialisation.

Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Stotts Cengage Education Coaching Your Sport Certificate.

SUBJECTS:
1. The Role of the Coach
2. Coaching Styles
3. Communications and the Athlete
4. Basic Coaching Philosophy
5. Stages of Skill Acquistion
6. Periodization
7. Periodization (continued)
8. Improving Your Performance
9. Psychological Factors and Peak Performances
10. A Sports Psychology Model
11. How to Cope with Negative Thinking and Stress
12. Nutrition and the Athlete - Conflicting Reports
13. Nutrition and the Athlete - General Recommendations
14. Fitness Tests
15. Developing Flexibility
16. Strength Training
17. Circuit Training
18. Training Diary
19. Training Nights
20. Competition Preparation
21. Coach Education

Course Number:	570
Prerequisites:	Open entry
Assessments:	21 lessons / 21 assignments
Duration:	This course must be completed within 24 months. 24 Months = 5 hours a week study 12 Months = 9 hours a week study
Level:
	Stotts Cengage Education is registered as a private training establishment by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) under the provisions of the Education Act 1989 and its subsequent amendments. This course has no National Qualifications Framework accreditation and no credits will be reported to NZQA upon completion.