Mindfulness Training in Sport (eBook)

An Exercise Program for Enhancing Athletic Performance

Darko Jekauc, Lea Mülberger, Susanne Weyland (Autoren)

eBook Download: PDF

2024 | 2024
X, 123 Seiten
Springer Berlin Heidelberg (Verlag)
978-3-662-68804-5 (ISBN)

Infos

The cycle of emotions, like few other phenomena, can significantly influence our performance in sports. For this reason, many elite athletes turn to mindfulness training as a form of training for mental strength and emotion regulation. Prominent examples include Novak Djokovic (tennis), Phil Jackson (basketball), and Malaika Mihambo (track and fields).

In recent years, the benefits of mindfulness-based training have also been discussed in the scientific community, and initial studies confirm the positive effects of its application. Overall, the conclusion can be drawn that mindfulness training works similarly to strength training: the ability to maintain concentration and regulate one's own emotions can be trained like a muscle.

This book explains, through vivid practical examples, the significance of emotions in sports, the history of mindfulness in sports, and the mechanisms of mindfulness training for athletes. The focus lies on a scientifically evaluated mindfulness program for both recreational and elite athletes, which can be done individually or in a group. The eight units of the program contain practical exercises as well as information on the background and effects of each exercise. Become your own mental coach to sustainably enhance your athletic performance. 

The authors

Prof. Dr. Darko Jekauc, a former tennis player of Germany's Regional League, is familiar with the sudden onset of negative emotions that can cause doubt in a player and lead to a decline in their performance. He is currently the head of the department 'Health Education and Sports Psychology' at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and conducts scientific research on emotions in sports. His research group, including Lea Mülberger and 

Susanne Weyland, particularly focuses on the role of mindfulness training and emotions.

Prof. Dr. Darko Jekauc, a former Regional League tennis player of Germany's Rregional Lleague, is familiar with the sudden onset of negative emotions that can cause doubt in a player and lead to a decline in their performance. He is currently the head of the department 'Health Education and Sports Psychology' at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and conducts scientific research on emotions in sports. His research group, including Lea Mülberger and Susanne Weyland, particularly focuses on the role of mindfulness training and emotions.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.6.2024
• Zusatzinfo: X, 123 p. 18 illus., 11 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Original-Titel: Achtsamkeitstraining im Sport
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Body awareness • Breathing techniques • breath meditation • Competition situations • Concentration • emotion control • Emotion Regulation • Emotions in sports • Empirical foundations of mindfulness training • Enhance athletic performance • Flow and the state of flow • Importance of mindfulness in sport • mental strength • Mental Training • Mindfulness and sports psychology • mindfulness exercises • Mindfulness in competitive sports • Mindfulness program for athletes • Mindfulness training for recreational athletes
• ISBN-10: 3-662-68804-2 / 3662688042
• ISBN-13: 978-3-662-68804-5 / 9783662688045