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The Effect of Imagery Exercises on Attention and Performance in Olympic Archers

NCT06739681 · Status: ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 36

Last updated 2024-12-18

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Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to for beginners in archery in to examine the effects of Imagination and breathing exercises given in addition to 8-week archery training on archery target score, postural sway, attention, hand grip, visualization and respiratory function parameters.. The main questions it aims to answer are:

* Do Imagination and breathing exercises have an effect on archery target shooting score?
* Do breathing exercises positively affect shooting performance by reducing postural sway?
* Do archers' imagination skills positively affect their attention and performance?
* Do hand grip strength and reaction time positively affect shooting performance?

Participants will Routine exercises used in archery training will be applied to all participants.

Researchers will compare control group, Imagination group and meditation group to see if Control group (CG); Only routine exercise program will be applied. To the Imagination Group (IG); In addition to routine exercises, a 15-minute visualization session will be applied. Respiratory Group (SG); Breathing exercises will be applied in addition to routine exercises.

Conditions

  • Performance Improvement in Beginner Archers

Interventions

OTHER

Routine Intervention

These routine exercises used in archery training will be applied to all participants. Exercise sessions will be planned 2 days a week, every other day, for 8 weeks. It will progress progressively according to the athlete's tolerance.

OTHER

Mental Imagery Intervention

Mental Imagination will be done with Recording Audio. An audio recording will last 5 minutes. The audio recording will be listened to 3 times in one session. The total visualization session will last 15 minutes in a dark and quiet room.

OTHER

Breathing Exercise Intervention

Participants participating in Pranayama training will practice in a comfortable position in a quiet room at a temperature of 25 ± 2°C. The slow pranayama technique chosen is alternate nasal breathing (Nadishodhana Pranayama).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Medipol University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
10 Years
Max Age
16 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-09-15
Primary Completion
2024-12-31
Completion
2025-06-01

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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