Day 238: One thing I learned today…
46 college athletes participated in a study.
Group 1 - Engaged in a 5 week mindfulness training with two- 30 minute session per week and encouraged participants to practice on their own daily.
Group 2 - Control Group
Those in Group 1, who received the mindfulness training, increased athletic performance (longer exhaustion durations) as well as increased performance on the Stroop task which related to increased executive functioning skills when compared to the control group.
Do you have a mindfulness practice?
Source: Jui-Ti Nien, Chih-Han, W., Kao-Teng, Y., Yu-Min, C., Chien-Heng Chu, Yu-Kai, C., & Zhou, C. (2020). Mindfulness training enhances endurance performance and executive functions in athletes: An event-related potential study. Neural Plasticity, 2020 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8213710
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