Effects of Motor Mental Imagery Training on Tennis Service Performance during the Ramadan Fasting: A Randomized, Controlled Trial

The objective of the present study is to analyze the effects of motor mental imagery training on tennis service performance among tennis athletes who fast during Ramadan. Participants were 38 young male tennis players, randomly divided into two groups: Imaging Training (IMG, n = 18) and control grou...

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Autores principales: Fekih, Sofien, Zguira, Mohamed Sami, Koubaa, Abdessalem, Masmoudi, Liwa, Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi, Jarraya, Mohamed
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7231086/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32283820
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12041035
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author Fekih, Sofien
Zguira, Mohamed Sami
Koubaa, Abdessalem
Masmoudi, Liwa
Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi
Jarraya, Mohamed
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description The objective of the present study is to analyze the effects of motor mental imagery training on tennis service performance among tennis athletes who fast during Ramadan. Participants were 38 young male tennis players, randomly divided into two groups: Imaging Training (IMG, n = 18) and control group (CG, n = 20). The CG has watched videos on the history of the Olympic Games, while IMG has followed a training program in motor imagery. The performance of the tennis service was obtained by the product between accuracy and speed of typing (accuracy × average speed of all shots (km/h)). The effect of group/time interaction (p < 0.01) was identified for all performance indicators (accuracy, running speed and performance (speed × precision)), with improvement only in IMG (p = 0.01). The results showed that motor imagery training could be an effective strategy for mitigating/counteracting the negative effects of Ramadan on the tennis service performance.
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spelling pubmed-72310862020-05-22 Effects of Motor Mental Imagery Training on Tennis Service Performance during the Ramadan Fasting: A Randomized, Controlled Trial Fekih, Sofien Zguira, Mohamed Sami Koubaa, Abdessalem Masmoudi, Liwa Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi Jarraya, Mohamed Nutrients Article The objective of the present study is to analyze the effects of motor mental imagery training on tennis service performance among tennis athletes who fast during Ramadan. Participants were 38 young male tennis players, randomly divided into two groups: Imaging Training (IMG, n = 18) and control group (CG, n = 20). The CG has watched videos on the history of the Olympic Games, while IMG has followed a training program in motor imagery. The performance of the tennis service was obtained by the product between accuracy and speed of typing (accuracy × average speed of all shots (km/h)). The effect of group/time interaction (p < 0.01) was identified for all performance indicators (accuracy, running speed and performance (speed × precision)), with improvement only in IMG (p = 0.01). The results showed that motor imagery training could be an effective strategy for mitigating/counteracting the negative effects of Ramadan on the tennis service performance. MDPI 2020-04-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7231086/ /pubmed/32283820 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12041035 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_short Effects of Motor Mental Imagery Training on Tennis Service Performance during the Ramadan Fasting: A Randomized, Controlled Trial
title_sort effects of motor mental imagery training on tennis service performance during the ramadan fasting: a randomized, controlled trial
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12041035
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