Cargando…
Influence of CrossFit and Deep End Fitness training on mental health and coping in athletes
Physical exercise is known to improve mental health. Athletes can experience unique physical and emotional stressors, which can deteriorate mental health and cognitive function. Training apathy can lead to cognitive dissonance and further degrade performance by promoting maladaptive, avoidance copin...
Autores principales: | , , , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Frontiers Media S.A.
2023
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10577405/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37849685 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2023.1061492 |
_version_ | 1785121319855063040 |
---|---|
author | Cansler, Rachel Heidrich, Jerome Whiting, Ali Tran, Don Hall, Prime Tyler, William J. |
author_facet | Cansler, Rachel Heidrich, Jerome Whiting, Ali Tran, Don Hall, Prime Tyler, William J. |
author_sort | Cansler, Rachel |
collection | PubMed |
description | Physical exercise is known to improve mental health. Athletes can experience unique physical and emotional stressors, which can deteriorate mental health and cognitive function. Training apathy can lead to cognitive dissonance and further degrade performance by promoting maladaptive, avoidance coping strategies. Introduction of psychosocial and training variables, such as those used in CrossFit (CF) and other community-based fitness programs with strong peer support have been shown to help reduce training apathy and negative affect. Here, we explored whether addition of psychophysiological variation, experienced as “hunger for air” during underwater breath-hold exercises, could provide unique mental health benefits for athletes. We studied the influence of CF and Deep End Fitness (DEF), a community-based underwater fitness program, on several outcome measures of mental health and emotional well-being in volunteer athletes. We observed a significant reduction in stress scores of both the control CF training group and the experimental DEF group. We found that DEF produced a significant improvement in positive affect while CF training did not. Further supportive of our hypothesis that the psychological and biological stressors experienced in underwater, breath-hold training cause positive adaptive changes and benefits, DEF training uniquely increased problem-based coping. While our observations demonstrate both CF and DEF training can improve mental health in athletes, DEF produced additional, unique benefits to positive coping and attitudes of athletes. Future studies should further evaluate the broader benefits of community-based, underwater training programs on psychological and physiological health in athletes and the public. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-10577405 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2023 |
publisher | Frontiers Media S.A. |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-105774052023-10-17 Influence of CrossFit and Deep End Fitness training on mental health and coping in athletes Cansler, Rachel Heidrich, Jerome Whiting, Ali Tran, Don Hall, Prime Tyler, William J. Front Sports Act Living Sports and Active Living Physical exercise is known to improve mental health. Athletes can experience unique physical and emotional stressors, which can deteriorate mental health and cognitive function. Training apathy can lead to cognitive dissonance and further degrade performance by promoting maladaptive, avoidance coping strategies. Introduction of psychosocial and training variables, such as those used in CrossFit (CF) and other community-based fitness programs with strong peer support have been shown to help reduce training apathy and negative affect. Here, we explored whether addition of psychophysiological variation, experienced as “hunger for air” during underwater breath-hold exercises, could provide unique mental health benefits for athletes. We studied the influence of CF and Deep End Fitness (DEF), a community-based underwater fitness program, on several outcome measures of mental health and emotional well-being in volunteer athletes. We observed a significant reduction in stress scores of both the control CF training group and the experimental DEF group. We found that DEF produced a significant improvement in positive affect while CF training did not. Further supportive of our hypothesis that the psychological and biological stressors experienced in underwater, breath-hold training cause positive adaptive changes and benefits, DEF training uniquely increased problem-based coping. While our observations demonstrate both CF and DEF training can improve mental health in athletes, DEF produced additional, unique benefits to positive coping and attitudes of athletes. Future studies should further evaluate the broader benefits of community-based, underwater training programs on psychological and physiological health in athletes and the public. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-10-02 /pmc/articles/PMC10577405/ /pubmed/37849685 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2023.1061492 Text en © 2023 Cansler, Heidrich, Whiting, Tran, Hall and Tyler. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Sports and Active Living Cansler, Rachel Heidrich, Jerome Whiting, Ali Tran, Don Hall, Prime Tyler, William J. Influence of CrossFit and Deep End Fitness training on mental health and coping in athletes |
title | Influence of CrossFit and Deep End Fitness training on mental health and coping in athletes |
title_full | Influence of CrossFit and Deep End Fitness training on mental health and coping in athletes |
title_fullStr | Influence of CrossFit and Deep End Fitness training on mental health and coping in athletes |
title_full_unstemmed | Influence of CrossFit and Deep End Fitness training on mental health and coping in athletes |
title_short | Influence of CrossFit and Deep End Fitness training on mental health and coping in athletes |
title_sort | influence of crossfit and deep end fitness training on mental health and coping in athletes |
topic | Sports and Active Living |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10577405/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37849685 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2023.1061492 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT canslerrachel influenceofcrossfitanddeependfitnesstrainingonmentalhealthandcopinginathletes AT heidrichjerome influenceofcrossfitanddeependfitnesstrainingonmentalhealthandcopinginathletes AT whitingali influenceofcrossfitanddeependfitnesstrainingonmentalhealthandcopinginathletes AT trandon influenceofcrossfitanddeependfitnesstrainingonmentalhealthandcopinginathletes AT hallprime influenceofcrossfitanddeependfitnesstrainingonmentalhealthandcopinginathletes AT tylerwilliamj influenceofcrossfitanddeependfitnesstrainingonmentalhealthandcopinginathletes |