ArticlePloS one2015
Implementation of Motor Imagery during Specific Aerobic Training Session in Young Tennis Players.
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- Stimulus specificity in combined action observation and motor imagery of typing.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2025Article
- Does Motor Imagery Training Improve Service Performance in Tennis Players? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Beneficial Effects of Motor Imagery and Self-Talk on Service Performance in Skilled Tennis Players.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Lost in the crowd: Imagining walking in synchrony with a crowd increases affiliation and deindividuation.PloS one · 2021Article
- Effects of Mental Training Through Imagery on the Competitive Anxiety of Adolescent Tennis Players Fasting During Ramadan: A Randomized, Controlled Experimental Study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2021Article
- Effects of Motor Mental Imagery Training on Tennis Service Performance during the Ramadan Fasting: a Randomized, Controlled Trial.Nutrients · 2020Article
- Acute effects of in-step and wrist weights on change of direction speed, accuracy and stroke velocity in junior tennis players.PloS one · 2020Article
- Feasibility of Motor Imagery Training for Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder - A Pilot Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
- Accuracy and Reliability of a New Tennis Ball Machine.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2016Article
- Online and Offline Performance Gains Following Motor Imagery Practice: A Comprehensive Review of Behavioral and Neuroimaging Studies.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2016Review
- On the Use of a Test to Exhaustion Specific to Tennis (TEST) with Ball Hitting by Elite Players.PloS one · 2016Article
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Abstract
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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