sports coach
Code 3422.3
The sports coach / personal trainer (personal trainer o preparador físico) designs and leads training for performance, health or a specific sport. Use this Job Dictionary profile to fitness/sport with PT and strength-coach synonyms.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- sport and exercise medicine
- sport games rules
- sporting equipment usage
Skills and competences
- apply teaching strategies
- apply intercultural teaching strategies
- apply risk management in sports
- assist students with equipment
- organise training
- develop a coaching style
- demonstrate when teaching
- guarantee students' safety
- manage student relationships
- observar progresos de estudiantes
- prepare lesson content
- assist students in their learning
Transversal competences
- adapt teaching to student's capabilities
- adapt teaching to target group
- encourage students to acknowledge their achievements
- promote balance between rest and activity
- give constructive feedback
- perform classroom management
- motivate in sports
- instruct in sport
- plan sports instruction programme
- teamwork principles
- sports ethics
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What to assess for this role
Assess periodisation, exercise safety and athlete motivation.
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Common questions about this role when you are hiring or writing the job profile.
- What does a sports coach do?
- Assesses the athlete/client, plans sessions and corrects technique.
- Is personal trainer the same?
- Often yes in gyms; sports coach may be more team/club oriented.
- What to measure when hiring?
- A demo session and basic injury handling/referral.
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences