A RESEARCH ON HEALTHY LIVING BEHAVIORS OF ARCHERY COACHES AND BOXING COACHES

The aim of the research was to assess healthy living behaviors of archery coaches and boxing coaches in terms of sportive branch, sportive experience and gender. The study was conducted with boxing coaches (n=119) and archery coaches (n=131). As the data collection tool; “The Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II (HPLP-II) which was developed by Walker et al. and validity and reliability tests of which were performed by Bahar et al. (2008) was employed. In the study; it was found out that mean score of boxing coaches on Physical activity subscale was higher than archery coaches. Besides; no statistically significant differences existed between archery coaches and boxing coaches in terms of gender and sportive experience.