Mood states
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Mood States: High-level college swimmers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the States were studied for a research project published in 1991.
The results showed that the training loads carried out by the swimmers when volume was greatest were sufficient to create negative mood profiles. The individual measures of depression, anger, fatigue and confusion all increased, while the measure of vigour decreased dramatically. In fact, it was the measures of fatigue and vigour which were altered the most by the heavy training - and these are perhaps the most sensitive in the short term. However, all measures returned towards normal when training load was reduced during the tapering period...
Importantly, the measure of depression did not increase excessively, and also returned towards pre-training values during the tapering period. This was important because this variable has been shown to be affected most in those athletes who slip into states of overtraining and experience staleness. For the high-level swimmers in the study, the training period used appeared sufficient to place a significant stress on mood profile, but not one that was too great for a tapering period to correct (Raglin and co-workers, 'Changes in mood states during training in female and male college swimmers', International Journal of Sports Medicine, 1991, vol.12, pp585-589)...
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POMS
mike1965
does anyone know were i can get an up to date profile of mood states prograsmme for my pc?
I was wondering if you have
cheryl32
I was wondering if you have located the POMS yet as i require it for my dissertation too. ??