Lifestyle Fitness Coaching

by Gavin, James

• ISBN13: 9780736052061
• ISBN10: 0736052062
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Package w/CD
• Copyright: 2005-05-12
• Publisher: Human Kinetics

Summary

Lifestyle fitness coaching is an emerging field in the health and fitness industry. Centered on an ongoing and guided process of dialogue, Lifestyle Fitness Coaching offers a systematic approach to help fitness professionals understand their clients'needs, interests, and personal orientations and use the information to direct clients toward achieving their health and personal goals.Lifestyle Fitness Coachingcontains detailed information on coaching dialogues between the health fitness professional and the client, addressing issues such as the types of questions to ask, how to provide feedback effectively, and how to make referrals. The text includes useful information for guiding program development and learning activities that help readers understand the material and relate it to their situations. In addition, an accompanying CD-ROM contains a Matching Activities and Personal Styles (MAPS) Inventory, a validated questionnaire that clients complete to identify their likes and dislikes. The MAPS Inventory software then generates a report that coaches and clients can use to guide the coaching process.Lifestyle Fitness Coachingpresents the necessary skills for professional development and offers a methodology for gathering and analyzing personal information about clients that enables coaches to engage in dialogue about the means and ends of clients'sport and fitness programming. With this text, professionals can do the following: -Learn the building blocks of information and skills for developing a career as a lifestyle fitness coach-Appreciate the skills and coaching processes necessary for communicating with clients-Engage clients in an ongoing process of dialogue informed by comprehensive fitness-related data concerning clients'needs, interests, and background-Reinforce their understanding and practice their application of the skills presented-Help clients develop profiles of personal style and related exercise options This text teaches health fitness professionals how to step into the arena of lifestyle fitness coaching to motivate, guide, inform, and support their clients'personal change processes. The book delineates the bounds of care and advice that coaches should give and helps coaches aid clients in strategizing, planning, and implementing self-change and personal improvement programs. Issues are explored including the coaching relationship; goals, boundaries, and ethics in coaching; coaching stages and processes; and coaching skills. The book also examines assessments, applications, and opportunities and directions in lifestyle fitness coaching.As such, Lifestyle Fitness Coachingis an invaluable resource for health fitness professionals who want to expand their skills and move toward more enriching and rewarding interactions with their clients.

Author Biography

James Gavin is a professor and graduate program director in the department of applied human sciences at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Making the Case for Lifestyle Fitness Coaching

What Do We Know?

Forces and Counterforces for Active Living

Understanding the Evolution of Coaching

Toward a Definition of Lifestyle Fitness Coaching

Getting From Here to There!

Coaching and Active Living

Understanding the Modern-Day Exercise Mandate

Dreams and Visions for the Future of Fitness

The Nature of Change

An In-depth Analysis of the Psychosocial Structure of Sport and Fitness

Choice, Commitment, and Change: Essential Ingredients for Coaching

The Coaching Relationship

Promoting Growth Through Relationship

What Are the Characteristics of Effective Coaches?

Why Do People Want to Be Coaches?

The Coach's Power to Influence

Understanding the Relational Underworld: Transference

Gaining Wisdom

Goals, Boundaries, and Ethics in Coaching

Goals

Boundaries

Ethics

An Essential Framework for Coaching

Coaching Stages and Processes

Stages of the Coaching Process

Prochaska's Transtheoretical Model (TTM)

Taylor's Learning Process Model

Endings and New Beginnings

Reflections on Stages, Phases, and Endings

Building Rapport and Gathering Information

The Unspoken World of Communication

Active Listening to Enhance Understanding

Questioning That Promotes Understanding and Builds Rapport

Frameworks for Considering Client Information

Cornerstones of Effective Coaching Technique

Developing Insight and Deepening Understanding

Focusing

Immediacy

Reflection of Meaning

Coaching for Insight and Discovery

Influencing Clients in Change Processes

Challenging Skills

Solution Skills

Power and Responsibility in Influencing Clients

Coaching Dialogues

Understanding Coaching Dialogue

Two Coaching Dialogues

Effective Dialogue and the Need for Practice

Assessments and Guides for Coaching

What Coaches Need to Know

MAPS-A Model of Sport and Fitness Matching for Lifestyle Fitness Coaches

Adding Value Through Assessment

Applications of Guides in Coaching

Understanding the MAPS Inventory

Client Reports Based on the MAPS Inventory

Coaching Dialogues Initiated With the MAPS Inventory

Maintaining Rapport in Using Assessments

Opportunities and Directions in Lifestyle Fitness Coaching

Your Expertise As a Coach

Opportunities and Growth in Lifestyle Fitness Coaching

Your Life As a Coach

Glossary

References

Index

About the Authors

CD-ROM Operating Instructions

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