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Lifestyle Fitness Coaching
Expand your professional services and create healthy lifestyles!
By Jim Gavin, PhD


Lifestyle Fitness Coaching is a dynamic blend of personal training and life coaching. You’ll learn sophisticated communication and facilitation skills to help your clients achieve positive behavior change and establish specific expectations for personal growth and sustained active living. Included are specific coach/client dialogues to guide the development of your personalized coaching style and an interactive MAPS Inventory CD-ROM to use with your clients.









Course Objectives:
  • Identify characteristics of active and inactive adult populations.
  • Address the potential of sport and physical activity for fostering personal development.
  • Identify the most commonly stated reasons for not exercising.
  • Summarize key behaviors and actions that coaches must do to develop professional relationships and to build trust and client confidence.
  • Explain the role of goals in the coaching/client relationship and differentiate between outcome, performance, and process goals.
  • Outline stages of change, including Prochaska's Transtheoretical Model and Taylor's Learning Process Model, and intervention strategies for each.
  • Provide examples of each of the five dimensions of nonverbal communication including kinesics, paralinguistics, proxemics, environmental factors, and time.
  • List the seven types of focusing as described by Ivey and colleagues and give an example of each.
  • Examine the two categories of influencing skills: challenging skills and solution skills.
  • Explain the term dialogue and how dialogue is used in the lifestyle coaching process.
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    Course Includes: 
  • Exam
  • Study guide
  • 269-page textbook Lifestyle Fitness Coaching and CD by James Garvin, PhD
  • Topic: Personal Training
    Level: Intermediate
    Weight: 3.0 lbs
    Complete Printed Course  #4455     $219.00

    CECs
    ACE 2.10
    ACSM 21.00
    AEA 8.00
    AFPA 8.00
    BCRPA 21.00
    BOC 21.00
    CDR 21.00
    CI 21.00
    COPS-KT 2.10
    ISSA 21.00
    NASM 1.90
    NASN 2.10
    NCHEC 21.00
    NCSF 5.00
    NETA 21.00
    NFPT 0.50
    NSCA-CPT 2.00
    NSCA-CSCS 2.00
    NSPA 21.00
    W.I.T.S. 10.00