The effects of mindfulness training on beginners' skill acquisition in dart throwing: A randomized controlled trial

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The effects of mindfulness training on beginners' skill acquisition in dart throwing: A randomized controlled trial,

Effects of Mindfulness Practice on Performance and Factors Related to Performance in Long-Distance Running: A Systematic Review

“…The durations of interventions were similar in studies on runners and those on other sports (4-8 weeks) so exposure is unlikely to explain the limited effects seen in runners. It has been previously suggested that benefits of mindfulness practice depends on tenacity and engagement with the sessions (Zhang et al, 2016). Such engagement in the practice process is difficult to determine yet remains a possible reason for lack of improvement in the runners studied.…”

Towards a contextual approach to athletic performance enhancement: Reflections, perspectives, and applications

“…Yet, at once, we acknowledge that it is extremely difficult to conduct a randomized controlled trial in an elite sports context with sufficient power. Adolescent and student athletes might be an alternative (e.g., R€ othlin, Birrer, Horvath, & Holtforth, 2016;Zhang et al, 2016) from the population perspective, or the randomized controlled cross-over design (Elbourne et al, 2002) from the design perspective. In addition, we propose sport psychology practitioners to use the N-of-1 randomized controlled trials in their interventions (Shaffer, Kronish, Falzon, Cheung, & Davidson, 2018).…”

Looking East for Mindfulness: A Glimpse of Practices and Research on Shaolin Martial Arts and Related Practices to Advance Sport Psychology

“…More than a decade has passed since the first empirical research on mindfulness in the sport context was published in an international peer-reviewed sport psychology journal (see Kee & Wang 2008) [1]. Today, interest in mindfulness within sport psychology continues to grow, with researchers working on different issues related to mindfulness, such as mindfulness intervention in athletes (Moore, 2009) [2], skills acquisition (Zhang et al, 2016) [3], coaches' mindfulness (Longshore & Sachs, 2015) [4], theoretical aspects of mindfulness-performance links (Birrer, Röthlin, & Morgan, 2012) [5] and motor control (Kee, Chatzisarantis, Kong, Chow, & Chen, 2012) [6], to name a few. By and large, research supports the notion that mindfulness is efficacious for sport performance enhancement, although some cautioned about potential inadequacies in certain studies (Bühlmayer, Birrer, Röthlin, Faude, & Donath, 2017; Noetel, Ciarrochi, Van Zanden, & Lonsdale, 2017) [7,8].…”