Human Kinetics Coach Education LA84

To manage your time effectively, your top-priority goals should be

realistic and achievable

You select specific exercises, determine when to do energy and muscular training, and determine the length, and frequency of the training and rest periods when you

design a physical training program

According to most coaches of amateur athletes, coaches' primary objectives for sport are winning and helping their athletes

develop and have fun

It is recommended that your players have fun playing on your team.

true

Showing your dissatisfaction with officials throughout the game is not particularly effective in building good relationship with officials.

true

Team rules should focus on character development as much or more than they focus on technical and tactical skill devlopment.

true

The part method of practice should be used for technical skills that have parts with low interdependence and high complexity.

true

When you're teaching a technical skill, your athletes should practice the skill only after you've introduced, demonstrated, and explained the skill.

true

You should develop specific practice plans for each practice.

true

You should ensure that your athletes participate in preseason screening and physicals.

true

Your coaching philosophy could change as you become a more experienced coach.

true

Rod is a coach who never gets excited about an athlete's good or bad performance. He seldom makes eye contact and doesn't share what he's thinking. Rod could improve his communication skills by

using a variety of voice characteristics and appropriate touching behaviors

The sport safety form that describes who will monitor the weather and the conditions for suspending the resuming activity is the

weather emergency plan

To develop your coaching philosophy, you need to determine

your personal goals and coaching objectives

Learning about, listening to, believing in, and respecting your athletes are recommended techniques for

creating the right team culture

Effective communication assumes that listening to what other people say is as important as what you say.

true

You probably should limit the number of new technical and tactical skills you teach in one practice to

1 or 2

Providing feedback to correct and improve the performance of a new technical skill is completed in which step of teaching technical skills?

Correct errors.

Complimenting your athlete when you catch them doing things well, avoiding sarcasm, and focusing on solutions and not problems are effective strategies for

communicating positive messages

Practicing a new technical skill, including all of its parts, in the context of the game is completed in which step of teaching technical skills?

Have the athlete practice the technical skill.

Naming a new technical skill and explaining how it is used in the game is covered in which step of teaching technical skills?

Introduce the technical skill.

"Keep your explanations concise and your athletes active." "Follow a practice plan that incorporates routines for changing activities." These examples of time savers illustrate which principle of practice?

Use practice time efficiently.

As an interscholastic sport coach, arranging or confirming the arrangements for the facility and equipment, officials, scorekeepers, and the visiting team are some of your responsibilities in managing

contests

A command-style coach probably

a and b

Exercises that can help prevent acute knee injuries include

a and b

A tennis player who purposely hits his opponent's weak backhand side is performing

a tactical skill

Character education should be the duty of

all of the above

Rewards should be given for

all of the above

The postseason evaluation completed by the parents should assess

all of the above

The best team rules

are brief, clear, and specific, and they serve the players

During this stage of learning a technical skill, overanalyzing the skill is likely to hurt performance. The learner should thinking and just let it happen.

automatic stage

A well-known sports equipment manufacturer introduces a lighter pole for pole vaulting. Unfortunately, in cool weather it tends to get brittle and break, so you decide not to let your vaulters use the pole. Your action to manage the risk is an example of

avoiding the risk

A cooperative-style coach probably

emphasizes her athletes' self-control

Causes, symptoms, and signs of an injury are examined first when

evaluating the injury

"Athletes first, winning second" means that you should let the athletes do whatever they want to do.

false

First aid techniques change slowly, and keeping up to date is NOT important.

false

It is legal for you to give certain medications to your athletes.

false

The player handbook is a confidential agreement between you and your players, and it should NOT be shared with parents.

false

You should avoid expressing yourself strongly and with emotion.

false

Typically, to develop and maintain a good relationship with your athletic director or principal, you should

invite her to practices and contests

The games approach to teaching is recommended when the skill being taught

is tactical

Your first aid should include

none of the above

Who on the athletic health care team should prescribe appropriate treatment for an athlete's injury?

physician

You have a legal obligation to inform which of the following groups about the inherent risks of the sport you're coaching?

players

Typically you will create the information system and determine policies for using the system during the

preseason

Realistic personal goals for each of your athletes should be

suitable and achievable for each athlete

An athlete who uses specific procedures to move her body to hit a pitched softball is performing

technical skills

An athlete suffers a minor injury during a contest. After the athlete receives appropriate first aid, who should make the decision to allow her to continue playing?

the certified athletic trainer

Coaches should teach their players the core, sport-specific technical skills that

the players need to know in order to play at theur level of competition

To enhance your athletes' motivation, you should create situations that allow your athletes to see success in terms of achieving

their personal goals