A conditional process model of the effect of mindfulness on 800-m personal best times through pain catastrophising

Jones, Martin I.; Parker, John K.

doi:10.1080/02640414.2015.1093648

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“…The observed enhanced sport performance of the mindfulness group following mindfulness training compared to the control group was similar to the findings of previous studies focusing on fine motor performance (e.g., basketball free throw shooting [ 47 ]), dart throwing [ 48 ], and shooting performance [ 42 , 44 ]. While some studies have focused on running-related performance (e.g., 800-meter personal best times [ 49 ] and long-distance runners' best mile times [ 50 ]), our study advances the current knowledge regarding study design, sample size, and precise measures in the laboratory. That is, rather than applying a cross-sectional design [ 49 ] or perform a follow-up study [ 50 ], we employed a quasiexperimental design to examine the performance change resulting from mindfulness training by comparing two groups.…”

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“…While some studies have focused on running-related performance (e.g., 800-meter personal best times [ 49 ] and long-distance runners' best mile times [ 50 ]), our study advances the current knowledge regarding study design, sample size, and precise measures in the laboratory. That is, rather than applying a cross-sectional design [ 49 ] or perform a follow-up study [ 50 ], we employed a quasiexperimental design to examine the performance change resulting from mindfulness training by comparing two groups. Additionally, runners in an MSPE program in a previous study were found to show no improvements in actual running performance compared to a waiting list group, but that result may have been caused by the small sample size in that study (i.e., around 12 participants in each group) [ 11 ].…”

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“…In contrast, the roughly twice as large sample size in our work provided greater power to detect the differences between the two groups. Lastly, our work measured actual performance via laboratory measures which provide more precise indexes than retrospective questionnaire measures [ 50 ] or field tests [ 49 ].…”

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“…The mindfulness training group in our study exhibited longer exhaustion times than the control group, a difference which may be associated with mindfulness-related breathing and posture, which have been reported to decrease task-related worries and task-irrelevant cognitions [ 11 , 50 ]. Furthermore, Jones and Parker [ 49 ] previously demonstrated that pain catastrophizing partially mediates the association between mindfulness and the 800-meter personal best times of runners. Specifically, runners with high levels of mindfulness could have awareness of their pain without judging it, allowing them to accept the experience of it.…”

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Mindfulness Training Enhances Endurance Performance and Executive Functions in Athletes: An Event-Related Potential Study

Nien

Yang

et al. 2020

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Mindfulness interventions have been linked to improved sport performance and executive functions; however, few studies have explored the effects of mindfulness on sport performance and executive functions simultaneously. This study sought to examine whether a mindfulness training program would affect both the endurance performance and executive functions of athletes. In addition, event-related potentials (ERPs) associated with the Stroop task were assessed to investigate the potential electrophysiological activation associated with the mindfulness training. Applying a quasiexperimental design, forty-six university athletes were recruited and assigned into a five-week mindfulness training program or a waiting list control group. For each participant, the mindfulness level, endurance performance assessed by a graded exercise test, executive functions assessed via Stroop task, and N2 component of ERPs were measured prior to and following the 5-week intervention. After adjusting for the preintervention scores as a covariate, it was found that the postintervention mindfulness level, exhaustion time, and Stroop task accuracy scores, regardless of task condition, of the mindfulness group were higher than those of the control group. The mindfulness group also exhibited a smaller N2 amplitude than the control group. These results suggest that the five-week mindfulness program can enhance the mindfulness level, endurance performance, and multiple cognitive functions, including executive functions, of university athletes. Mindfulness training may also reduce conflict monitoring in neural processes.

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“…It is noteworthy that although meditation-based interventions have been only recently proposed in the fields of physical activity and public health (Birrer et al, 2012), they have been utilized quite extensively in other realms of knowledge such as clinical psychology, behavioral medicine, and psychiatry (Körner et al, 2015;Janssen et al, 2018). Meditation-based interventions can also be used by people who are physically active (see e.g., Jones and Parker, 2016;Colzato and Kibele, 2017) in order to optimize the neural control of working muscles and elicit more positive affective responses during exercise-and sport-related tasks. Accordingly, we have also explored some psychological mechanisms that could potentially underlie the effects of meditation on exercise tasks performed at various intensities.…”

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Exploring the Use of Meditation as a Valuable Tool to Counteract Sedentariness

Bigliassi

Bertuzzi

2020

Front. Psychol.

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Some forms of meditation have been recently proposed as effective tools to facilitate the handling of undesired thoughts and reappraisal of negative emotions that commonly arise during exercise-related situations. The effects of meditation-based interventions on psychological responses could also be used as a means by which to increase exercise adherence and counteract the detrimental consequences of sedentariness. In the present article, we briefly describe the effects of meditation on physical activity and related factors. We also propose a theoretical model as a means by which to further understanding of the effects of meditation on psychological, psychophysical, and psychophysiological responses during exercise. The results of very recent studies in the realms of cognitive and affective psychology are promising. The putative psychological mechanisms underlying the effects of meditation on exercise appear to be associated with the interpretation of interoceptive and exteroceptive sensory signals. This is primarily due to the fact that meditation influences the cerebral processing of physical sensations, emotions, and thoughts. In such instances, the bodily and perceptual responses that are commonly reported during exercise might be assuaged during the practice of meditation. It also appears that conscious presence and self-compassion function as an emotional backdrop against which more complex behaviors can be forged. In such instances, re-engagement to physical activity programs can be more effectively achieved through the implementation of holistic methods to treat the body and mind. The comments provided in the present paper might have very important implications for exercise adherence and the treatment of hypokinetic diseases.

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