1 TÜRKİYE PROFESYONEL LİGLERİNDE GÖREV ... - Spor Bilim

The effect of mental training on the skill learning swimming in the students of
physical education
Dr.Saeed Sadeghi Boroujerdi
Department of physical education
Kurdistan University, IRAN
Definitions and Introduction:
One of the goals of applied sport psychology is to investigate human performance (SCHILLING, 1992) in
order to build up mental toughness (SCHORI, 1989), to stabilize and to enhance sport performance
(SEILER, 1992) through a balance between the physical and the mental dimension of performance.
In today's sport psychology the term mental training means "the formal, structured application of
psychological techniques to the enhancement of sports performance.
Other terms such as psychological preparation or mental preparation are also used, but mental training
appears to be the most popular.
This is perhaps because it implies processes and objectives similar to those with which sports performers
are very familiar through their use of the term physical training.
In the other hands, some countries literatures were restricted to the mental training of motor skills.
Doing mental training in sport in this sense means that the athlete thinks about a skill and goes through
the movement in his or her head. There is a mental image or picture, an imagery, which a person looks at
or sees in his or her mind.
In sport psychology and in coaching mental training in the restricted (narrower) or broader (wider)
perspective is an often-used expression .In the last years many articles and books on mental training
were published.
Athletes and coaches indeed know about it, but so far they do not integrate mental training in their daily
training programs.
The evaluation of mental activities in the training process – not only in athletic training – has progressed
rather faster .It is because the field of research encompasses very different areas such as sport
psychology, exercise physiology, cognitive psychology, psychometrics, psychophysiology or motor
learning.
NUMBER
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
MAIN
AGE
(Year)
23
23
23
21
21
23
23
22
25
21
22
19
20
21
23
22
22
HEIGHT
(Cm)
170
179
174
175
185
187
180
176
173
178
187
174
175
177
181
176
178
WEIGHT
(Kg)
Table 1-1 Physical Specification of Experimental Group
68
70
74
62
96
74
90
77
60
60
68
63
68
68
81
66
72
kg/m2
23.50
21.80
24.40
20.20
28.00
21.20
27.80
24.90
20.00
18.90
19.40
20.80
22.20
23.00
21.50
22.50
22.50