Psychological Intervention On Competitive Endurance Performance Of Rower

Based on the central theory of fatigue, the purpose of this investigation was to explore the effectiveness of psychological intervention,which consists of the fatigue belief intervention and mental skill training, on pacing strategy, performance, and RPE of male national-level rowers . The experiment was to set up an experimental (n=9) and a control (n=5) group, to have the pre-post test. That was an un-equivalent quasi-experimental design. The participants were 14 national-level rowers, who were requested to do their best to conduct a 6 minutes test twice in both pretest and posttest . Prior to the pretest and posttest (after the intervention), all the participants completed the Mental Skill Questionnaire, Self-talk Inventory, Fatigue Overcome Questionnaire. Results show that the scores of Imagery, Mental Preparation and Self-talk of the participants in experimental group have a significant change after psychological intervention. ANOVA analysis demonstrates a significant change in the performance of the second test between pretest and posttest ( p<0.05 ) . These findings support the hypotheses that psychological intervention could change the pacing strategy and improve the performance.