Implementation of Motor Imagery during Specific Aerobic Training Session in Young Tennis Players.
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of implementing motor imagery (MI) during specific tennis high intensity intermittent training (HIIT) sessions on groundstroke performance in young elite tennis players. Stroke accuracy and ball velocity of forehand and backhand drives were evalua...
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| author | Aymeric Guillot Franck Di Rienzo Vincent Pialoux Germain Simon Sarah Skinner Isabelle Rogowski |
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| description | The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of implementing motor imagery (MI) during specific tennis high intensity intermittent training (HIIT) sessions on groundstroke performance in young elite tennis players. Stroke accuracy and ball velocity of forehand and backhand drives were evaluated in ten young tennis players, immediately before and after having randomly performed two HIIT sessions. One session included MI exercises during the recovery phases, while the other included verbal encouragements for physical efforts and served as control condition. Results revealed that similar cardiac demand was observed during both sessions, while implementing MI maintained groundstroke accuracy. Embedding MI during HIIT enabled the development of physical fitness and the preservation of stroke performance. These findings bring new insight to tennis and conditioning coaches in order to fulfil the benefits of specific playing HIIT sessions, and therefore to optimise the training time. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8d7c8544c72348909937da88212cf9e32022-12-21T17:45:14ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032015-01-011011e014333110.1371/journal.pone.0143331Implementation of Motor Imagery during Specific Aerobic Training Session in Young Tennis Players.Aymeric GuillotFranck Di RienzoVincent PialouxGermain SimonSarah SkinnerIsabelle RogowskiThe aim of this study was to investigate the effects of implementing motor imagery (MI) during specific tennis high intensity intermittent training (HIIT) sessions on groundstroke performance in young elite tennis players. Stroke accuracy and ball velocity of forehand and backhand drives were evaluated in ten young tennis players, immediately before and after having randomly performed two HIIT sessions. One session included MI exercises during the recovery phases, while the other included verbal encouragements for physical efforts and served as control condition. Results revealed that similar cardiac demand was observed during both sessions, while implementing MI maintained groundstroke accuracy. Embedding MI during HIIT enabled the development of physical fitness and the preservation of stroke performance. These findings bring new insight to tennis and conditioning coaches in order to fulfil the benefits of specific playing HIIT sessions, and therefore to optimise the training time.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4651510?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Aymeric Guillot Franck Di Rienzo Vincent Pialoux Germain Simon Sarah Skinner Isabelle Rogowski Implementation of Motor Imagery during Specific Aerobic Training Session in Young Tennis Players. PLoS ONE |
| title | Implementation of Motor Imagery during Specific Aerobic Training Session in Young Tennis Players. |
| title_full | Implementation of Motor Imagery during Specific Aerobic Training Session in Young Tennis Players. |
| title_fullStr | Implementation of Motor Imagery during Specific Aerobic Training Session in Young Tennis Players. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Implementation of Motor Imagery during Specific Aerobic Training Session in Young Tennis Players. |
| title_short | Implementation of Motor Imagery during Specific Aerobic Training Session in Young Tennis Players. |
| title_sort | implementation of motor imagery during specific aerobic training session in young tennis players |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4651510?pdf=render |
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