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10 BodySense Basics
Positive Body Image
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  The BodySense Basics include ten ways parents and leaders can foster a sport environment that promotes positive body image.
                                   
 
 Look at our own  beliefs
 
 Get the facts
 
Respect natural body size
 
   


Examine our own attitudes and beliefs about food, exercise, weight, and
shape.
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Seek up-to-date, accurate information about body health, food, and self-esteem for parents, coaches and athletes.
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Treat each athlete as an individual with a unique body size, shape, and weight.
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Model a positive approach to food
 
Create well being in physical activity
 
Promote positive self esteem
 
   


Listen to our bodies.  Eat for enjoyment and satisfaction and resist pressures to diet or change our natural body size.
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Participate in sport and physical activity for fun, challenge, and a love of movement while respecting the abilities and limitations of our bodies.
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Help athletes to feel good about themselves, and to develop a positive concept of who they are.
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Invite assertion
 
Model coping in healthy ways
 
Role model
 
   


Encourage athletes to be assertive about expressing values, feelings, and needs. More...

   


Teach athletes stress management, coping, problem-solving skills, and assertiveness in order to promote dealing with challenges in positive ways. More...

   


Understand that who we are, what we say, and what we do, impacts athletes who look to us as examples. More...

 
                   

 
Inspire balance
   
   


Encourage athletes to be assertive about expressing values, feelings, and needs. More...