Youth Coaching Practices
Aldous (2014) on the other hand emphasizes effective coaching practices for youth athletes as best achieved where a coach first realizes the main goal of youth sport as different from elite sport. This is influenced by the fact that youth sports primary goal is development while elite sport is winning. While it is true that winning happens in youth sports, it serves as a product of the right development and thus should not be emphasized. In an instance where a youth sports coach focuses on winning, it translates to a situation where the coach thinks and makes short-term plans. Additionally, there is a possibility that the coach may make use on inappropriate training measures directed toward winning, as opposed to the ultimate goal of development.
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The researchers point at positive effects associated with youth coaches subjected to Cost-Effectiveness Training Programs (CET). Introduction of the programs happened with an aim of providing youth sports coaches with better skills of team building, nurturing self-esteem as well as helping the coaches to set examples to the youths. CET relies on cognitive-behavioral therapy techniques where coaches were taught on how to become aware of their behaviors so as to learn the manner the youth athletes perceive the coaches behaviors while at the same time predict the impacts the behaviors will have on the athletes. The technique is equally important in instilling coaches with a commitment to not only improving the skills of young athletes but also in rewarding their efforts and as a result replacing the philosophy of winning that is common in sporting activities. The findings of the study reveal that after young athlete’s coaches were subjected to CET techniques, their players evaluated them more positively as opposed to their counterparts who were not subjected to CET training (American Psychological Association, 2003). Additionally, after engaging with coaches subjected to CET training, young athletes who initially had lower scores of self-esteems recorded significant
The researchers point at positive effects associated with youth coaches subjected to Cost-Effectiveness Training Programs (CET). Introduction of the programs happened with an aim of providing youth sports coaches with better skills of team building, nurturing self-esteem as well as helping the coaches to set examples to the youths. CET relies on cognitive-behavioral therapy techniques where coaches were taught on how to become aware of their behaviors so as to learn the manner the youth athletes perceive the coaches behaviors while at the same time predict the impacts the behaviors will have on the athletes. The technique is equally important in instilling coaches with a commitment to not only improving the skills of young athletes but also in rewarding their efforts and as a result replacing the philosophy of winning that is common in sporting activities. The findings of the study reveal that after young athlete’s coaches were subjected to CET techniques, their players evaluated them more positively as opposed to their counterparts who were not subjected to CET training (American Psychological Association, 2003). Additionally, after engaging with coaches subjected to CET training, young athletes who initially had lower scores of self-esteems recorded significant