Coaches Health Education Training
Coaches Health Education Training focuses on providing important health messages to coaches that they might use in their own lives and at their sports trainings throughout the year. Have a local professional come to a coaches education meeting and speak for 15 minutes on different topics throughout the year.
Example area class ideas for Coach Health Education Training:
Example area class ideas for Coach Health Education Training:
- Posture, alignment and injury prevention – find a local chiropractor that is interested in training a group of coaches for 15 minutes at a coaches education meeting.
- Injury Prevention – instructed by fitness professionals and athletic trainers
- Eat Well Live well – use Special Olympics Fit 5 and Live Healthy materials
- Infection control (Universal Precautions) – instructed by a local nurse
- Introduction and review of Healthy Athletes – Jennifer Avery or HA Clinical Directors
Coaches Corner Training Cards
The following materials will allow any parent, coach, teacher family member or athlete to learn about the importance of good nutrition and also provides exercise suggestions and instructions to help improve fitness levels.
Training Resources:
- Fit5 Personal Best Guide
- Fitness Cards
- Fitness for Sports Coach - Training Module
The Purpose of the module Fitness for Sports Coach teaches sports coaches the very basics of fitness and how to easily integrate principles of fitness within their practice as seamlessly as possible. Also points coaches to resources they can use for fitness. To use this module you must register a free training account.
