Effect of internal focus of attention with touching cue on the agonist muscle activity during exercise
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Title: | Effect of internal focus of attention with touching cue on the agonist muscle activity during exercise |
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Authors: | Oshita, Kazushige |
Keywords: | External focus attention | Light touch effect | Resistance training | Exercise instructor |
Knowledge Area: | Educación Física y Deportiva |
Issue Date: | 2021 |
Publisher: | Universidad de Alicante. Área de Educación Física y Deporte |
Citation: | Journal of Human Sport and Exercise. 2021, 16(2proc): S195-S201. https://doi.org/10.14198/jhse.2021.16.Proc2.04 |
Abstract: | This study aimed to investigate the effect of internal focus of attention with touching cue on agonist muscular activity during the arm curl exercise. Ten healthy males (age, 20-35 years) performed five repetitions of arm curl under three different focus instructions: external focus condition (EXT), where participants were instructed to concentrate on lifting the bar; internal focus condition (INT), where participants were instructed to concentrate on contractions of biceps brachii; and, internal focus and touch condition (INT+T): participants' biceps brachii was lightly touched by the investigator and they were instructed to concentrate on muscle contractions at the touched point. Although the average muscular activities in INT and INT+T were significantly higher than that of EXT (p < .01), no significant difference in muscle activity between INT and INT+T was observed. Further, magnitudes of these effects were small (d < 0.25). These results suggest that internal focus caused by individual's consciousness, as well as a focus attention by touching the agonist area increased the agonist muscle activity during exercise. However, the increase in agonist muscle activity due to focus attention is limited. |
Sponsor: | Research supported by KAKENHI (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research C, Grant Number JP18K06455). |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/113589 |
ISSN: | 1988-5202 |
DOI: | 10.14198/jhse.2021.16.Proc2.04 |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Rights: | This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). |
Peer Review: | si |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14198/jhse.2021.16.Proc2.04 |
Appears in Collections: | Journal of Human Sport and Exercise - 2021 - Autumn Conferences of Sports Science |
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