The Influence Of The Mood Management To The Provincial Swimming Athletes' Training Quality

This study aims to examine if the psychological intervention could change athletes' mood and then further improve athletes training quality under the condition of plateau training. The study also investigates if the "plateau training" itself would influence athletes' mood and training quality by comparing with two baselines between prior to and after plateau training. The study uses a "Single-Participant Research Desigh" with non-contemporaneity and double baselines. The participants are four GD provincial swimming athletes who all are elite athletes. Through using the POMS and training quality evaluation, athletes' mood and training quality are measured during the four different phases of prior to plateau training, after plateau training, in the period of plateau training under psychological intervention, and when back to plain training without psychological intervention. The results show that two athletes' POMS scores changed little and the other two changed a lot; one athlete's training quality scores increased, the other three decreased, between two baselines. After psychological intervention, the four athletes' POMS scores all decreased, their training quality scores all increased. When back to plain training circumstance without psychological intervention, the four athletes' POMS scores all tended to increase and their training quality scores all tended to decrease. The results of the study indicate that psychological intervention during the plateau training could change athletes' mood, though not so significantly, and this improved mood could further influence athletes' training quality.