Coach training: Impact beyond coach training

Virtual Coach for Mindfulness Meditation Training

The past decade has witnessed an increasing interest in the use of virtual coaches in healthcare. This paper describes a virtual coach to provide mindfulness meditation training, and the coaching support necessary to begin a regular practice. The coach is implemented as an embodied conversational character, and provides mindfulness training and coaching support via a web-based application. The ...

Teacher training students’ experiences of the role of Coach in linking theory and practice in practicum

Future teachers of education are Current students that  focus on the development of teacher knowledge in the field of theory and practice in practicum as an important part of the teacher training program. One of the effective factors in the pre-service programs is schools coach, The study seeks it. The reserch method used in this study was qualitative method and was of phenomenological type. An...

The Coach – Athlete Relationship Questionnaire 2 The Coach –

The purpose of the present study was to develop and validate a self-report instrument that measures the nature of the coach – athlete relationship. Jowett and colleagues’ (Jowett & Meek, 2000; Jowett, in press) qualitative case studies and relevant literature were used to generate items for an instrument that measures affective, cognitive and behavioral aspects of the coach – athlete relationsh...

Coaches’ Perceptions of a Coach Training Program Designed to Promote Youth Developmental Outcomes

Look at Me, Coach: A Trainer's Critique of Mobile Apps for Weight Training

The intersection of two contemporary trends – interest in fitness as a healthy lifestyle and the multitude of smartphone applications that seem able to serve any of our daily needs – was bound to produce an “explosion of health and fitness apps” [1]. But how well do these apps support the regimen of areas such as strength training or weightlifting, which are seeing significant growth and intere...