Full Description
This book is a foundational resource for all coaches and student coaches who are, or who plan to be, working with Masters athletes. This athletic cohort typically includes adults over the age of 35 years who are registered for sport programs/events, and who invest in training to improve themselves for competitions that range from recreational to championship caliber.
As the boom in Masters sport continues worldwide, coaches are increasingly tasked with the development and support of adults' quality sport experiences, and the implementation of strategies to foster skill acquisition and to facilitate their pursuit of competitive goals. This book presents what is different about coaching Masters athletes and prompts coaches to expand their scope of practice beyond traditional knowledge associated with youth or younger adult cohorts. It is essential for coaches to understand the psychological and social considerations that are unique to coaching adult sports-persons and Masters athletes, and that can be adapted to adults whose training and preparation for competition is quite varied.
Coaching Masters Athletes: Advancing Research and Practice in Adult Sport explores the research and practice specific to planning to coach Masters athletes and divulges what is known about distinctive considerations for delivering coaching interventions to this cohort, expanding on coaches' abilities to influence adults' personal development, as well as their own coach education through Masters Sport. Readers and students of Coaching, Physical Activity, Health Psychology, Sport Leadership and Exercises Science will gain valuable applied perspectives grounded in best practice research on how to coach one of the fastest-growing sporting cohorts, to promote quality adult sport, and to keep adult sports-persons engaged and active as they age.
Contents
1. The Emergence of Masters Sport and the Rising Importance of Coaches for this Cohort
2. Adult Learning in Sport: Implications for Psycho-social Coaching Competencies
3. Notions of Age-related Decline and Performance amongst Masters Athletes: Implications for
Coaching
4. Age-related Physiological Changes in Masters Athletes: Coaching Implications
5. An Overview of Risk Factors for Disease in Masters Athletes: Implications for Coaches
6. Sport Psychology and Masters Athletes: Implications for Coaches
7. Roles of Masters Athletes
8. Understanding the Social and Relational Dimensions of Coaching Adults
9. Coaching for Personal Assets and Life Skills in Masters Sport
10. Roles of Masters Coaches at and around Competition and Events
11. Coach Development and Education for the Masters Coach
12. Policy Development for Coached Masters Sport- Possibilities and Problematization
13. A Way Ahead for Coaching Masters Athletes
