As a coach, an unexperienced trainee or experienced head coach for years, it is important to keep the individuals you coach interested and keep a certain excitement for them in every session you deliver. One way to assess this dilemma if you want is by using reflective practice and engaging with your athletes through this. Reflective practice is within the world of sport becoming more and more recognized as a tool and used to boost improvement and efficiency for coaches, sport psychology practitioners and other personalities within any sporting organisation (Huntley and Kentzer, 2013). Research (Knowles, Katz and Gilborune, 2012); Neil, Cropley, Wilson and Faull, 2013) suggests reflective practice and critical reflection used in the correct ways brings genuine potential to carry out change. Not only coaches can benefit from the use of reflective practice. Young …show more content…
This was an opportunity I said yes to as I was eager to learn more about how it was to coach this group. One of the reasons I was so eager to work with people with a disability was because I had little to no knowledge and wanted to learn. I wanted to learn what the motivational factors to do exercise was for this group, how I as a coach can help and what the best ways to get them to take part was. Rescent research (Youngdeok, Jaehoon, Fuller and Minsoo, 2015; Martin and Whalen, 2014; Mirsafian, 2016) suggests that coaches and coaching for people with disabilities have been lacking and it is important for sports organisations to educate coaches for this specifically as there is a need of coaching and systematic interventions in the development of disability physical activity. District sports run a great number of schemes for different groups of disabled people around the Hampshire area and are actively working to develop and widen the opportunities for this group to take part in physical