Coaching as a social and pedagogical phenomenon
Being involved into the sport, a person communicates with a coach in many ways — as a teacher, as an athlete, as a psychologist and so on. Having devoted a definite part of his or her life to sports activity, a coach becomes a multifunctional specialist in this field. The knowledge of dealing with future athletes in everyday routine is, of course, a result of hard work and specific talent which a coach should be marked to.
Coaching is fundamentally a didactic and educational activity associated with social and physical development of fitness and health. Hence, the coach operates first in the pedagogical and recreational field and moves the sanitary and functional values as and when higher sports objectives are kept in mind. The society having needs in healthy population, the first task of sporting is striving for health and activity.
Physical education and sports are a basis for health, physical perfection, increased working ability, as well as moral and aesthetic teaching. A general development of sports increases the creative mankind and influences economic and cultural development. Numerous studies have shown that college students who practise sports regularly are also better able to cope with their work; workers in industry, who practise sports, fall ill 3 — 4 times less frequently than others, they are more productive, produce fewer rejects and suffer fewer injuries.
In general, physical education and sport are social values which form an important component of culture. Physical education has a favourable effect on health and so it is one of the most important ways of increasing the efficiency of other activities. But to make its best contribution to the society, a long period of systematic work is needed. In general, an athlete with the best coach achieves the best result, all other conditions being equal.
Sport offers opportunities for purposeful movement, compensating for the insufficiency of the physical activity which decreases as a result of conveniences and facilities of modern life. To become perfect in physical ability and fitness is a virtue desirable for personal and socio-cultural reasons. Sport provides opportunities for satisfying our needs, like need for movement, need for publicity, need for excitement, need for competition, need for security and self-sufficiency as well as need for physical skills. Not all athletes experience all these needs and not all needs can be satisfied without difficulty, but all of them are present, real and powerful.
The striving for self-expression and constant perfection of man, are facilitated by the process of coaching. Talent and ambition alone are not enough for winning a championship. It is necessary to submit oneself absolutely to a planned concept of coaching, which involves not only hard work but also assistance and care by a team of people concerned.
b) Answer the questions.
What is coaching?
Where does a coach operate first?
What is the first task of sport?
What does a general development of sports increase?
What needs can sport satisfy?
c) Translate into Ukrainian.
1) physical activity; social activity; development of fitness and health; healthy population; general development; economic and cultural development; social values; deal with athletes; winning a championship
2) physical education; physical chemistry; physical training; physical examination; physical exercise; physical drill; physical therapy; physical fitness; physical activity; development; develop; developmental; devote a lot of time to studies; be devoted to sports; modern society; sporting society; Ministry of Health; health centre; increase in prices; of no value; social values
d) Complete the sentences.
Being involved into the sport
Having devoted a definite part of
The society having needs in healthy population
In general, an athlete with the best coach achieves
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