TY - CHAP
T1 - Mindfulness training
AU - Zhang, Chunqing
AU - Su, Ning
PY - 2020/4/14
Y1 - 2020/4/14
N2 - How to help athletes enhance their performance is a never-ending mission for all stakeholders involved in sport contexts, including athletes, coaches, and sport psychology practitioners. Even the highest-level athletes face various challenges in high-level sport competitions. The key for athletes to become successful is being able to cope with such challenges and keep improving their sport performance, no matter what adversity they encounter. This chapter introduces the theoretical origin of the mindfulness-based contextual approach for performance enhancement, defines mindfulness, discusses how mindfulness can help enhance athletic sport performance, and considers the application of mindfulness training in sport. Recognizing the limitations of traditional psychological skills training, mindfulness training has been applied to athletic performance enhancement for the past 15 years. Empirical support for the effectiveness of the mindfulness training programmes has been preliminarily established with a series of studies on athletes from a variety of individual and team sports.
AB - How to help athletes enhance their performance is a never-ending mission for all stakeholders involved in sport contexts, including athletes, coaches, and sport psychology practitioners. Even the highest-level athletes face various challenges in high-level sport competitions. The key for athletes to become successful is being able to cope with such challenges and keep improving their sport performance, no matter what adversity they encounter. This chapter introduces the theoretical origin of the mindfulness-based contextual approach for performance enhancement, defines mindfulness, discusses how mindfulness can help enhance athletic sport performance, and considers the application of mindfulness training in sport. Recognizing the limitations of traditional psychological skills training, mindfulness training has been applied to athletic performance enhancement for the past 15 years. Empirical support for the effectiveness of the mindfulness training programmes has been preliminarily established with a series of studies on athletes from a variety of individual and team sports.
UR - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315187228-29/mindfulness-training-chun-qing-zhang-ning-su
U2 - 10.4324/9781315187228
DO - 10.4324/9781315187228
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781138734463
VL - 2
T3 - ISSP Key Issues in Sport and Exercise Psychology
BT - The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Sport and Exercise Psychology
A2 - Hackfort, Dieter
A2 - Schinke, Robert J.
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -