Search results for "coaches"

A Grounded Theory of Elite Male Table Tennis Players’ Activity during Matches

2006

International audience; This article describes the main features of a collaborative project involving researchers, coaches, and elite table tennis players. The project was carried out between 1997 and 2002 with funding from the French Ministry of Youth and Sports, in response to a request by French Table Tennis Team coaches to improve the training of table tennis players. Matches were videotaped during international meets and followed by interviews during which the players described and commented on their activity as they viewed the tapes. A grounded theory of players' activity emerged from the data collected and the ensuing theoretical issues that were raised. The findings on table tennis …

Conhecimento tático declarativo de treinadores de tênis

2020

Este artigo descreve o conhecimento tático declarativo (CTD) apresentado por treinadores de tênis considerando: a socialização pré-profissional; escolaridade; nível de jogo; experiência com a modalidade como tenista e treinador; e local de atuação profissional. A amostra contou com 31 treinadores, homens, das cidades de Cuiabá e Londrina, com idade média de 34,3±8,6, nível de jogo de primeira ou segunda classe nas federações estaduais, caracterizados por atuarem como treinadores há 10 anos ou mais e graduados ou pós-graduados em Educação Física. O CTD foi mensurado com o Teste Conhecimento Tático Declarativo para o Tênis (TCTD:TN), com resultados analisados por meio de estatísticas descriti…

Health promoting sports club : youth sports clubs' health promotion profiles, guidance, and associated coaching practice, in Finland

2010

Coaches’ perceptions of French sports clubs: Health-promotion activities, aims and coach motivation

2014

Background: Given the benefits of participating in sport, sports clubs have been recognised as health-promoting organizations. To examine health-promotion activities in Finnish sports clubs, Kokko et al. developed a set of standards for health-promoting sports clubs (HPSC). Objective: The present study extends this line of research, by (1) measuring coaches’ perceptions of health- promotion activities in French sports clubs and comparing them to earlier Finnish results, (2) measuring coaches’ perceptions of the health-promotion aims of sports clubs and (3) examining the links between HPSC and coaches’ self-determined motivation. Methods: Coaches ( N = 125) completed a modified version of th…

Mapping knowledge and experience about sport psychology consulting among Finnish premier football coaches

2016

Mikola, Noora 2016. "Mapping knowledge and experience about sport psychology consulting among Finnish premier football coaches” Sport and Exercise Psychology master's thesis. The Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä. 50 p. Background: Perceptions of sport psychology consulting in Finnish premier football have not been studied before. The current study was inspired by two earlier studies made in England by Pain and Hardwood (2004) and in Sweden by Johnson, Andersson and Fallby (2011) and was done in co-operation with the Football Association of Finland. The purpose of the study was to examine knowledge and experience about sport psychology consulting among Finnish pr…

¿Quién está buscando su mejor versión? Coaching y psicología deportiva en el proceso de terapeutización de (y desde) el golf

2020

This article asks about the expansion of psychological, therapeutic and self-enhancement ethos through the networks and devices that configures middle and upper-middle classes, and about the ways in which this process is singled out starting from the encounter between coaching and psychology paradigms with golf fans, in contemporary Argentina. The empirical materials that support the analysis have been ethnographically produced from the interaction with golf players and coaches.

Train in Vain: The role of the self in claimed self-handicapping strategies

2012

International audience; Two field studies investigate the role of self in the tendency of athletes to engage in claimed handicapping strategies during training (anticipatively claiming that handicaps may interfere with their performance). Study 1 tested the relationship between trait self-esteem and athletes’ engagement in claimed self-handicapping. As hypothesized, low physical self-esteem athletes claimed more handicaps than high physical self-esteem athletes. For stronger evidence for the causal role of the self, Study 2 tested whether securing athletes’ self-worth through self-affirmation would lead to decreased claimed self-handicapping by using a mixed model design that allows for bot…