Lifestyle fitness coaching
"Lifestyle Fitness Coaching presents 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." "Lifestyle Fitness Coaching provides 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 Coaching is an invaluable resource for health fitness professionals who want to expand their skills and move toward more enriching and rewarding interactions with their clients."--Jacket
xiii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
9780736052061, 0736052062
57432169
Preface
Acknowledgments
One 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!
Two 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
Three 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 Four Goals, Boundaries, and Ethics in Coaching
Goals
Boundaries
Ethics
An Essential Framework for Coaching
Five 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
Six 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
Seven Developing Insight and Deepening Understanding
Focusing
Immediacy Reflection of Meaning
Coaching for Insight and Discovery
Eight Influencing Clients in Change Processes
Challenging Skills
Solution Skills
Power and Responsibility in Influencing Clients
Nine Coaching Dialogues
Understanding Coaching Dialogue
Two Coaching Dialogues
Effective Dialogue and the Need for Practice
Ten 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
Eleven 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
Twelve 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