Instructions to Adopt an External Focus Enhance Muscular Endurance
- Autores: David C. Marchant, Matt Greig, Jonathan Bullough, Daniel Hitchen
- Localización: Research quarterly for exercise and sport, ISSN 0270-1367, Vol. 82, Nº. 3, 2011, págs. 466-473
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The influence of internal (movement focus) and external (outcome focus) attentional-focusing instructions on muscular endurance were investigated using three exercise protocols with experienced exercisers. Twenty-three participants completed a maximal repetition, assisted bench-press test on a Smith�s machine. An external focus of attention resulted in significant (p < .05) improvements in performance compared to the internal focus of attention, but not the control condition. Seventeen participants completed repetitions to failure at 75% 1-RM on free bench-press and squat exercises. In both tasks, externally focused instructions resulted in significantly greater repetitions to failure than control and internal focus conditions (p < .05). These results support previous research showing beneficial effects of externally focused instructions on movement efficiency
