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Analyse your Coaching
Coaching Children and Young People
Coaching Disabled Performers
Coaching Methods and Communication
Equity in your Coaching
Fitness and Training
Fuelling Performers
Planning and Periodisation
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (Formerly Good Practice and Child Protection)
Improving Practices and Skill
Injury Prevention and Management- Under review, currently not available
Motivation and Mental Toughness
Observation, Analysis and Video - Under review, currently not available
Field-based Fitness Testing
A Guide to Mentoring Sports Coaches
Imagery Training
Performance Profiling
Coaching and the Law - Under review, currently not available
Responsible Sports Coach
Understanding Eating Disorders
An Introduction to Core Stability Training
Developing Power and Speed
Creating a Safe Coaching Environment - Under review, currently not available
Analyse your Coaching
Discover methods of analysing your own coaching performance and identify areas for development. Learn how to develop and implement an action plan to enhance your coaching.
This workshop will help you, the coach to:
- analyse your own performance against a checklist to identify areas of strengths and weaknesses
- recognise the different behaviours you exhibit in your coaching
- devise and implement an action plan to change aspects of your own coaching behaviour where required
- monitor any improvements in your coaching practice.
Coaching Children and Young People
Discover the needs and motivation of young players. Learn how to deliver effective coaching sessions to meet the level of skill, developmental stage and motivation of each young player.
This workshop will help you, the coach to:
- explain why children and young players take part in sport
- identify why children and young people are a special case
- plan and deliver coaching sessions to maximise learning and enjoyment
- match your own coaching to meet the developmental stages of children and young people
- follow good practice when coaching children and young people
Coaching Disabled Performers
Develop your own coaching knowledge and skills to coach disabled players through inclusive and separate coaching sessions. Discover new ways to adapt equipment and identify appropriate safety and medical considerations to meet your players' needs.
This workshop will help you, the coach to:
- explain when integration and segregation might be most appropriate
- identify appropriate safety and medical considerations
- review and extend your knowledge of how to adapt your coaching to the specific needs of disabled performers
- design and monitor a programme for a disabled player taking part in their sport
- direct players to appropriate structures for competition and further coaching.
Coaching Methods and Communication
Unlock and develop your communication skills to build and maintain a positive and effective coach/player relationship. Learn the principles of good communication and coaching styles and how to use them to meet the needs of your performers.
This workshop will help you, the coach to:
- identify and explain your own coaching style
- assess your own communication skills and action plan to increase your effectiveness
- build and maintain good relationships.
Equity in your Coaching
Everyone should have access to sport, regardless of gender, age, race, ability, faith or sexual orientation. As a coach, you have an important role to play in ensuring this happens. The workshop will help you to apply and extend your existing skills to meet the needs of present and potential participants.
This workshop will help you, the coach to:
- explain what equity means and why it is important
- identify barriers to participation
- use appropriate language and terminology
- identify and challenge inequitable behaviour
- interpret the legal framework that affects coaching
- identify how they can become more equitable
- establish where to go for further information.
Fitness and Training
Develop your understanding of the components of fitness and how each area can affect performance. Learn how to devise and implement appropriate training sessions to meet the fitness demands of your sport.
This workshop will help you, the coach to:
- identify the relative importance of the different components of fitness for their sport
- select and use appropriate training methods to develop the components of fitness
- identify the predominant energy system used in their sport
- construct a fitness training session through correct application of the main training principle.
Fuelling Performers
Enhance your knowledge to advise performers on diet, promote health and ensure adequate intake for optimum performance. Raise your own awareness of issues surrounding eating and drinking for sport.
This workshop will help you, the coach to:
- describe how an athlete's diet can affect performance
- identify appropriate food and fluid intake prior to, during and after training or competition
- explain the difference between nutritional supplementation and ergogenic aids
- be aware of issues relating to travelling, eating disorders and weight.
Planning and Periodisation
The sports coach UK workshop Goal Setting and Planning and resource A Guide to Planning Coaching Programmes have both recently been through a major review to reflect best practice in this area, linked to the latest thinking in Long-term Athlete Development, in particular periodisation of athletes and teams. The new workshop and resource and now called Planning and Periodisation. This workshop will help you, the coach to:
- describe the processes involved in effective planning
- gather information on the demands of their sport and the training needs of their performers
- explain and apply the adaptation process
- divide the year into training phases of different emphasis
- integrate all elements of performance into individual training programmes
- explain the importance of monitoring and evaluating performance in the context of an overall plan.
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (Formerly Good Practice and Child Protection)
Protect yourself, the young people you are coaching and your employer by understanding and following good coaching practice. Learn about child abuse and how to handle situations if you have concerns.
This workshop will help you, the coach to:
- identify good coaching practice to promote a positive relationship with children
- identify sport situations and coaching practice that might constitute either poor practice or possible abuse
- identify ways of dealing with your own feelings about child abuse and state what constitutes neglect, physical, sexual and emotional abuse
- recognise the signs and symptoms of abuse and appreciate why reporting it is often so difficult
- identity appropriate action if a child discloses he/she has been abused
- identity appropriate action if abuse is suspected and explain the role and responsibilities of other experts (e.g. police, social services)
- describe appropriate practice that reduces the likelihood of abuse occurring.
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Improving Practices and Skill
Find out how skills are acquired, developed and retained so you can structure your practice in the most effective way.
This workshop will help you, the coach to:
- explain how techniques can be executed and improved by using all the information available to the performer
- identify how skills can be broken down into phases and how each phase can be improved
- explain and use different ways of presenting techniques, appropriate for the level of performer
- structure progressive practices in their sport to maximise learning and develop skilful performance.
Injury Prevention and Management
Learn about why injuries occur and how to prevent them. Find out the best way to deal with them if they do happen and how to help players return to training quickly but safely.
This workshop will help you, the coach to:
- use appropriate strategies to reduce the likelihood of injury
- assess the severity of an injury or accident and respond appropriately
- know how to deal with soft tissue injuries
- assess if a player is ready to resume training or competition .
Motivation and Mental Toughness
Find out more about your performance and learn positive ways to help them commit to training and perform better in competition. Learn how to set goals effectively and build confidence and concentration training into your everyday practice.
This workshop will help you, the coach to:
- explain the factors which influence motivation and the importance of knowing your players
- identify your role in enhancing the motivation of your players
- explain how to enhance mental toughness of your players.
Observation, Analysis and Video
Develop your coaching eye through a greater understanding of how to observe and select appropriate methods to analyse your player's performance. Find out the power of video analysis and how you can use it effectively in your coaching.
This workshop will help you, the coach to:
- explain the importance of observation and analysis to enhance performance
- evaluate the way you currently analyse performance
- select appropriate strategies to analyse performance
- record and extract performance related information
- consider ways in which video can be integrated into your coaching.
Field-based Fitness Testing
Find out how to identify suitable field based tests, conduct them in the correct way and at the right times to provide meaningful information to assess the effectiveness of the training programme and plan for the future.
This workshop will help you, the coach to:
- select appropriate fitness tests for your sport and performers
- carry out the tests at appropriate intervals
- analyse, interpret and evaluate the results and times using your sport specific knowledge
- use the information to devise more effective fitness programmes.
A Guide to Mentoring Sports Coaches
Mentoring is a powerful tool in the education and development of sports coaches at all levels. This workshop will help you as a mentor to support coaches' learning and focus on how learning occurs.
This workshop will help you, the coach to:
- identify your role as a mentor
- develop your mentoring profile
- increase the effectiveness of your mentoring relationships by developing practical mentoring skills
- design a mentoring programme that best suits the needs of your sport and the level of coaching.
Imagery Training
Discover how to develop and use this powerful mental technique to help improve sports skills, build confidence, improve concentration and handle pressure. Find out how to use it effectively in training and competition to produce better results.
This workshop will help you, the coach to:
- identify how imagery training can be used to develop mental qualities
- explain what imagery is and how it works
- develop your own imagery skills through guided practice and determine when and how to use it in training and competition.
Performance Profiling
Learn how to use this technique to find out what your performers really think is important in helping them achieve their sporting goals. Work closely with them to prioritise their needs, plan and set goals, monitor progress and jointly prepare an action plan for change. You can use this tool to make your own coaching more successful.
This workshop will help you, the coach to:
- explain what is meant by performance profiling and why it is used in sport
- carry out a profiling exercise with a performer
- construct an action plan for change
- identify how and why you might use profiling with their performers.
Coaching and the Law
Sport is played in a world with an increasing tendency for litigation, under a media spotlight brighter than ever before. A specially trained tutor delivers this comprehensive workshop and addresses the legal aspects of coaching in a non-alarmist way providing a wealth of practical experience.
This workshop will help you, the coach to:
- explain the legal issues surrounding coaching practice
- identify the potential sources of liability surrounding coaching practice
- describe the elements of negligence
- undertake a risk assessment
- identify types of risk to your players.
Responsible Sports Coach
This workshop will enable you to develop an appropriate working relationship with performers based on mutual trust and respect that is rewarding for all of you.
This workshop will help you, the coach to:
- understand what responsibility means in terms of coaches and coaching
- identify a good coach-player relationship and recognise degrees of inappropriate and excessive coaching practice
- identify your responsibilities and to whom you are responsible.
Understanding Eating Disorders
Eating disorders are prevalent in sport and can affect any performer, male or female, at any age and at any level. Would you be able to recognise the signs and symptoms if a performer in your charge was suffering from an eating disorder? This workshop gives coaches and parents advice on what to look for, what to do and where to go for help in the event of suspecting the existence of an eating disorder.
This workshop will help you, the coach to:
- identify the warning signs, symptoms and risk factors of eating disorders
- play a role in the prevention, identification and management of eating disorders
- know where to go for further support and advice.
The health, well-being and success of your players depends on understanding eating disorders.
An Introduction to Core Stability Training
This interactive workshop raises awareness of the importance of core stability which is vital to optimising sports performance, playing longevity and reducing the risk of injury. The emphasis is on outlining how basic postural and core stability assessments can help raise awareness of potential problems relating to power generation from the hips and efficiency from each muscular effort.
This workshop will help you, the coach to:
- identify good posture and its importance
- recognise the value of basic assessment and stability exercises
- apply a safe series of prone active hip extension exercises
- specify when to refer an athlete for professional assessment and guidance
Core Stability training equipment is manufactured by Centurion and available through Coachwise 1st4sport catalogue or www.1st4sport.com
Developing Power and Speed
This interactive workshop includes tips to develop power, straight line and lateral sport-specific speed, acceleration and agility for coaches of multiple sprint sports such as rugby, tennis and netball. The emphasis is on outlining how general and sport specific conditioning can be used to assist the performer to develop an essential component of their game.
At the end of the workshop, coaches will be able to:
- identify principles of developing power and speed
- identify drills to develop power and speed
- plan a safe and effective power and speed session relevant to the needs of the performer
Equipment manufactured by Centurion and available through Coachwise 1st4sport catalogue or www.1st4sport.com
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