The effect of mental fatigue on aerobic effort performance and some physiological variables for sprinters Long distances

Abstract

Knowing the physiological indicators or variables and their effects on the performance of the athlete, whether in the field or in the physiological laboratories, is a necessity to identify the consequences and work to improve performance, physically or mentally, and the ability to adapt to face effort and fatigue. Athletes, including long-distance runners, face fatigue, whether physical or mental, and this may be caused by physiological or mental fatigue. The importance of the research lies in studying aspects of mental fatigue and its positive or negative impact on the performance of the athlete. There is a difference in the performance of long-distance athletes, which may be a result of mental fatigue, and this mental fatigue may negatively affect the physiological aspect and thus affect performance in general.

The research aims to:

To identify the effect of mental fatigue on the performance of the aerobic effort and some physiological variables of the long-distance runner. The researchers used the experimental approach due to its suitability to the nature and problem of the research. The research community was deliberately chosen from the long-distance runners in the Sulaymaniyah Governorate, who numbered (45) athletes. As for the selection of the actual research sample, it represented the long-distance runners in the Kalar district, consisting of (10) athletes. Through the foregoing, the researchers concluded that mental fatigue negatively affected aerobic performance and physiological variables, including heartbeat and lactic acid.