Sports Coaching and Pedagogy 8934

Personal Development of Athletes

Chaydin Reid

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Personal Development

• What is Personal Development?

• The purpose of Personal Development of athletes

• Factors that influence personal development of athletes (holistic health, environment)

What is Holistic Health?

How Health was defined over 50 years ago:

• Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

- World Health Organisation, 1948

How Health is seen today:

• It is your overall state of wellness on all levels of your being: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. It encompasses the health of your entire being and extends to everyone and everything that affects you in any way. That includes your resources, your environment and your relationships.

- Holistic MindBody Healing

Wellness By Design

Holistic Health• Physical

• Energy

• Mental/Emotional

• Spiritual

• Social

• Environmental

PhysicalAspects of the physical component include:

• Exercise

• Training

• Fitness

• Skill level

• Participation

• Competition

• Stretching

• Flexibility

• Diet

Energy

Physical benefit:

• As a benefit of physical activity and a healthy diet will create efficient energy to produce during exercise and training which will benefit performance.

• Increased kinetic energy

Mental and emotional benefit:

• Having a frame of mind that you are willingness to take on the challenges that athlete’s are confronted with.

• Having goals achieved by athlete’s will increase the energy levels that they want to do more and do better.

Spiritual benefit:

• Having a connection with different values and beliefs

• By definition energy is a power

• A force that fuels life, actions, strengths and vitality (Life Coach Directory)

• Main source of fuel is food and water

• Energy is the component that powers us on every level with all aspects of health.

Mental/ Emotional

Is the physical component the most important?

In many views, as much as the physical aspect is important to the performance of an athlete, the mental is seen more important as this can be very confronting for the individual and at times need professional help.

Preventing of negative emotion:

• Athlete’s are going to go through hard times, especially adolescents

• Talk positive, encouragement

• One on one discussions

• Always be aware

Aspects of the mental and emotional state involve:

• Attitude

• Self-esteem

• Self-confidence

• Engagement

Influences include:

• Motivation (both Intrinsic and Extrinsic)

• Enjoyment

• Encouragement

Spiritual• These quotes and words describe spirituality and

is a great indication that spirituality is very useful for personal development and growth.

• Spiritual is the connectedness of an individual to their values and beliefs

• You don’t need to be religious to have a connectedness.

• It is a sense of belonging

• Identity

• A diverse range of backgrounds

• Meditation

• Personal space

Social• Interacting with

friends, peers, team mates and others will enhance personal development and well-being

• Building relationships

• By interacting with others different experiences from a diverse of backgrounds will influence an individual

• Having a social life exposes you to enjoyment and not always about work or other activities that contribute to stress

• Need a balance

Environmental

• Ensuring, as a coach, your environment that you create for your athlete or team will associate heavily with how well they develop as a person overall.

• This will also result in being competitive in competitions.

• Lead to you being a role model and well respected which may lead to the wider community

• Even if they may not respect you at first as an outcome of their other negative environments still apply yourself to provide the best for your athletes

• The surrounding environment of an athlete influences personal development

• Home

• School or university

• Workplace

• Training

• Competition

A perfect example is how Erin Gruwell fought the challenge of winning the respect of her students in the movie Freedom Writers despite their negative environments outside of the classroom.

Personal Development Techniques

There are a various techniques for you as a coach that can implement onto your athletes. These include:

• Addressing strengths and weaknesses

• Goal setting

• Recording progression and achievements

• Evaluation and reflect

• Variation

• Experiment

• Making it Fun!!

Benefits of Personal Development

• Increase in all areas of health

• Healthy mind, body and spirit

• Leadership

• Fun

• Progress

• Success

Conclusion

• Having these attributes of health will significantly have a positive impact on personal development not only through their sport but also their overall well-being.

Reference and Resource

• Life Coach Directory. Retrieved from

http://www.lifecoach-directory.org.uk/

articles/personal-development.html

• World Health Orgainsation. Retrieved from

http://www.who.int/en/

• Holistic MindBody Healing Wellness By Design. Retrieved

from http://www.holistic-mindbody-healing.com/

definition-of-holistic-health.html

Useful Resource:

Long-term athlete development: Foundations and challenges for coaches, scientists & policy-makers

http://www.sportsscientists.com/2013/02/long-term-athlete-development.html