Fitness coach
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What it is and how it can help women reach their fitness, weight loss, personal, and professional goals Coaching is a partnership between the coach and client. Coaches act as: Guides Supporter Cheerleader Accountability partner Co-create fitness and wellness plans Lifestyle fitness coaching: a combination of life coaching and personal fitness training Process of inquiry and personal discovery to help clients develop awareness and sense of responsibility Identify realistic goals Strong focus on action health and fitness Provision of strategies, feedback, and structures to support forward movement Addresses client�s fitness and wellness as either primary or secondary objectives Either looking to enhance wellness and fitness only or seeking increased fitness and wellness in order to achieve a personal or professional goalpersonal development Ultimate goal of coaching: have clients function effectively on their own without needing constant direction from a coach by enhancing a client�s self-regulation and self-monitoring skills Self-regulation: the ability to work toward one�s short and long-term goals by effectively monitoring and managing one�s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors self-discovery
Other goals:
Discover internal motivations, coping strategies, meaningful goals, and action plans that will help person maintain healthy lifestyle and realize personal and professional potential
Increases client�s engagement, enjoyment and lifelong pursuit of maintaining healthy behaviors
Empower client to effectively realize co-determined goals by creating awareness of inhibiting patterns of behavior and by uncovering strengths, resources, and opportunities thus far realized.
Notes from Lifestyle Wellness Coaching: Second edition , Lifestyle Fitness Coaching, First Edition, and Foundations of Sport and Exercise Psycholoagy: First Edition.
