COACHING AS A SOCIAL AND PEDAGOGICAL PHENOMENON
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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 . A coach is a multifunctional specialist in this field. The knowledge of dealing with athletes in everyday routine is a result of hard work and specific talent. Coaching is a didactic and educational activity associated with social and physical development of fitness and health. Hence, the coach operates in the pedagogical and recreational field. The society needs healthy population, and 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. Sport increases the creativity and influences economic and cultural development. College students who practise sports regularly are better at their work; workers, who practise sports, fall ill 3—4 times less frequently than others, they are more productive. In general, physical education and sport are social values which form an important component of culture. Physical education has a great effect on health and increases the efficiency of other activities. But you need a long period of systematic work for the result. So an athlete with the best coach achieves the best result, when other conditions are equal. Sport offers opportunities for purposeful movement, compensates lack of physical activity which is a result of conveniences of modem life. 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, need for physical skills. Not all
athletes have 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 perfection is facilitated by the process of coaching. Talent and ambition alone are not enough for winning. It is necessary to submit oneself to a planned concept of coaching, which involves not only hard work but also assistance and care
by a coach.

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