Mindfulness in Sport Performance

Pineau, Timothy R.; Glass, Carol R.; Kaufman, Keith A.

doi:10.1002/9781118294895.ch52

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“…For athletes, common aspects of flow include experiencing heightened concentration and merging of action and awareness (Swann, Keegan, Piggott, & Crust, 2012). Attention and awareness are both foundational concepts of mindfulness (Chiesa, Calati, & Serretti, 2011), meaning that increasing mindfulness could potentially maximize flow and athletic performance (Pineau, Glass, & Kaufman, 2014). …”

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Collegiate Athletes’ Expectations and Experiences With Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement

Mistretta

Glass

Spears

et al. 2017

Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology

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Although mindfulness training for athletes is an area of increasing interest, few studies have focused on the qualitative experiences of athletes in such programs. Prior to beginning six sessions of mindful sport performance enhancement (MSPE) training, 45 mixed-sport collegiate athletes reported what they hoped and expected to get from the training, and responded afterward to open-ended questions about their experiences. Participants’ responses were coded for themes with high inter-rater reliability. Athletes initially hoped to gain psychological benefits in both sport and everyday life, such as relaxation and less stress or anxiety, better emotion regulation, mental toughness, and self-awareness, as well as sport performance improvement. Overall, they found MSPE to be a positive experience and reported many of the same benefits that they expected. Participants also provided constructive feedback and recommendations for future MSPE training. Finally, there was evidence to suggest that athletes’ expectations predicted similar improvements in outcome measures.

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Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology

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“…As noted, it is possible that the participants might have needed more mindfulness training sessions to optimally benefit from the positive effects of this strategy. Indeed, for athletes, Pineau, Glass, and Kaufman (2014) recommended intervention periods of mindfulness practice longer than 4 weeks to ensure beneficial effects. However, it is also important to note that six participants of Mindfulness 1 and five participants of Mindfulness 2, making up 19.6% of the participants using the mindfulness strategy, met the WHO recommendation of 150 minutes of APA a week after a few mindfulness training sessions.…”

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Beneficial Influence of Mindfulness Training Promoted by Text Messages on Self-Reported Aerobic Physical Activity in Older Adults: A Randomized Controlled Study

Robin¹,

Toussaint²,

Sinnapah³

et al. 2020

Journal of Aging and Physical Activity

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Inactivity is known to have harmful effects on the physical and mental health of older adults. This study used a randomized, parallel trial design to evaluate whether daily text prompts to practice mindfulness would have a positive impact on the time that adults aged 50 years or older spend in aerobic physical activity. The participants were recruited from a certified fitness center and divided into mindfulness and control groups. For 4 weeks, they were exposed to the experimental conditions, with or without the morning text message. In the morning message condition, the mindfulness groups received a text message with the instruction to practice audio-guided mindfulness for 10 min, and the control group received a placebo message. The participants practicing mindfulness reported significantly more weekly minutes of aerobic physical activity and higher intrinsic motivation than the control participants. Mindfulness training was effective at increasing aerobic physical activity duration and might complement physical activity programs.

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“…The inevitable pressure felt by athletes to enhance performance and to always be Bking of the mountain^aggravates pre-competition anxiety and everyday anxiety (Terry and Slade 1995). Via (a) present-centered attention and (b) acceptance of experience, mindfulness meditation has been found to be effective in achieving optimal athletic performance through decreasing the level of anxiety, ruminative thinking, and enhancing the experience of flow (see Birrer et al 2012 andPineau et al 2014, for a review). The key element of mindfulness is indeed the nonjudgmental focus of one's attention on the experience that takes place in the here and now (Kabat-Zinn 1994).…”

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How Different Types of Meditation Can Enhance Athletic Performance Depending on the Specific Sport Skills

Colzato

Kibele

2017

J Cogn Enhanc

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Long-term engagement in mindfulness meditation has been found to be effective in achieving optimal athletic performance through decreasing the level of anxiety, ruminative thinking, and enhancing the experience of flow. Besides long-term training effects, the past years have seen an increasing interest in the impact of single bouts of meditation on cognition. In particular, focused attention meditation (FAM) and open monitoring meditation (OMM) instantly bias cognitive-control styles toward Bmore^(i.e., serial processing) versus Bless^(i.e., parallel processing) top-down control, respectively. In this opinion article, we argue that the distinction between FAM and OMM is particularly effective when considering different types of sports. We speculate that FAM may enhance performance in closed-skills sports (i.e., archery, gymnastic), based on serial processing, in which the environmental is predictable and the response is Bself-paced.^In contrast, we consider OMM to promote performance in openskills sports (i.e., soccer, sailboarding), based on parallel processing, in which the environmental contingencies determine an Bexternally-paced^response. We conclude that successful meditation-based intervention on athletic performance requires a theoretically guided selection of the best-suited techniques specific to certain types of sports.

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Mindfulness in Sport Performance

Cited by 38 publications

References 122 publications

Collegiate Athletes’ Expectations and Experiences With Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement

Collegiate Athletes’ Expectations and Experiences With Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement

Beneficial Influence of Mindfulness Training Promoted by Text Messages on Self-Reported Aerobic Physical Activity in Older Adults: A Randomized Controlled Study

How Different Types of Meditation Can Enhance Athletic Performance Depending on the Specific Sport Skills

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