Mental training and psychological outcomes
Three weeks of mental training had no effect on grit or either of the two subscales, which reflects our previous 1-week mental training intervention (Van Haitsma et al. While resilience did not significantly increase from 3 weeks of mental training, it did approach a significant increase. Resilience can be defined as “the role of mental processes and behavior in protecting an individual from the potential negative effect of stressors” (Galli and Gonzalez One interesting finding during this study was the significant 10% decrease in performance in the control group during the third week of TTEs. Of the 17 individual participants in the CON group, only four individuals had an increase in performance while some individuals had as large as a 30% decrease in TTE performance. By not receiving any mental training, the CON group may have had a decrease in their desire to persevere, even though the psychological values were consistent over time. While the coefficient of variation for a time trial to exhaustion is fairly high (Jeukendrup et al. 