An investigation of healty life style behaviors of Turkish wrestling federation coaches

The purpose of this study was to investigate the healthy life style behaviors of coaches who working in Turkey Wrestling Federation. While the population of the research was Turkey Wrestling Federation Coaches and the samples of research created from 100 male coaches who participated in Turkey Championship Stars Categories in 2015 April. In this study “Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors Scale II (HLBS)’’ was used. The obtained data from the survey results were analyzed with SPSS 17 software package. One Way Anova and Independent Samples t tests were used to analyze the data to determine the differences between the groups. The coaches Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors Scale score means are determined as: 142.36±16.0 points. To contribute behaviors for development of health the highest mean scores, selfactualization, health responsibility, which found support in stress management and interpersonal dimension respectively, and the lowest average exercise and eating habits. As a result, there was a significant relationship between healthy life style behaviors and smoking, age, occupation time. Coachces who are nonsmokers have higher interpersonal communication, health responsibility and spiritual development than smokers. Old coaches give more importance to physical activities. Coaches who do regular exercise have higher healthy life style behaviors than don’t exercise. Consequently: It can be said that; Symposiums and educational seminars that made could be beneficial for their Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors and their application in daily life