Sport psychology has emerged as a critical discipline in understanding and enhancing athletic performance, mental resilience, and overall well-being in sports. This letter synthesizes current knowledge and proposes future directions for research and practice in the field. Recent advances have demonstrated the effectiveness of psychological interventions, including cognitive-behavioral techniques, mindfulness training, and mental skills development, in optimizing athletic performance across various sports and competitive levels. The growing recognition of mental health challenges among athletes has further highlighted the need for comprehensive psychological support systems within sports organizations. Additionally, technological innovations such as biofeedback and virtual reality are creating new opportunities for personalized mental training and performance enhancement. Despite these advancements, significant gaps remain, particularly in cross-cultural applications, lifespan approaches to athlete development, and the ethical integration of emerging technologies. Future research should prioritize interdisciplinary collaboration, culturally sensitive interventions, and longitudinal studies to better understand the psychological demands of athletes at different career stages. By addressing these challenges, sport psychology can continue to evolve as both a scientific discipline and an applied practice, ultimately contributing to the holistic development of athletes worldwide. This letter calls for strengthened partnerships between researchers, practitioners, and sports organizations to bridge the gap between theory and practice, ensuring that psychological insights translate into meaningful benefits for athletes at all levels of competition.

One of the most common and practical psychological interventions in the field of managing emotional states is mindfulness and acceptance-based interventions. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of mindfulness-acceptance-commitment-based intervention on anger rumination, competitive anxiety, emotion dysregulation and sports performance in bodybuilding sportsman. The study was semi-experimental research that implemented in the form of a multiple baseline single-case design. The statistical population included all the athletes who went to the bodybuilding sport clubs in the city of Selseleh in Lorestan province in 2021. Among them 10 sportsmen who met the inclusion criteria were selected using convenience sampling method. The subjects participated individually in a 8 sessions of mindfulness and acceptance-based program. Data were interpreted using the visual inspection, reliable change index (RCI), non-overlapping data indices (PND, PAND, PEM), recovery rate index, and Cohen's D effect size. The results showed that mindfulness-acceptance-commitment-based intervention has led to a reduction in anger rumination, competitive anxiety, emotional dysregulation and an increase in sports performance in athletes. Findings of the present study show that mindfulness-acceptance-commitment-based interventions could be effective in improving the cognitive-emotional functions and sports performance of athletes, and its application along with physical exercises can improve their sports performance.

Recently, the competition between countries to gain medals in international competitions and rankings of countries based on scores, has taken a high intensity and this has led these researchers to begin to explore affecting socioeconomic and other factors in sporting success in various competitions including the Olympic Games. However, the growth of research in this field and distribution of information, dominance of all aspects of this area is impossible. Hence, the combination of the results of previous conducted studies to obtain an overview research topic is more useful than the definition of new research projects. In the present study, purposive sampling (snowball sampling) was used. After reviewing the articles about the relationship between economic factors and sport performance, 20 studies were selected. To analyze the data collected, a comprehensive meta-analysis software program was used. The results showed that the mean of effect size of the relationship between economic factors and performance in sports events was 0.415. Since the effect size of the estimated is significant at 95% level, economic factors effect on sports performance.

Background & Aim: Athletes believe that energy drinks can be used to enhance their performance during training and competition. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of acute ingestion of a sport drink on endurance performance in student athletes.Methods: Ten healthy and trained young male athletes students were selected by systematic randomly sampling and after consuming Sport Drinks (experimental group) or placebo (control group) exercised on a treadmill at the intensity of 81.8% heart rate max (%70 VO2 max) until exhaustion. Subjects received 6 ml.kg-1 body weight of Sport Drink or placebo, 40 minutes before starting of exercise bout, and they received 2 ml.kg-1 body weight of Sport Drink or placebo every 15 minutes during each exercise. To evaluate the results, independent T-test was used.Results: Results showed no significant difference between Sport Drink and placebo trials in the total work time to exhaustion, heart rate or RPE (p>0.05). However plasma glucose concentrations were significantly higher in sport drink group compared with the placebo group (p<0.05).Conclusion: It can be concluded that the ingredient in the this sport drink did not provide any advantages to running endurance performance.

بدن مدار بودن زندگی روزمره در جوامع مدرن کردار برساخت بدن را به فعالیتی روزمره بدل کرده است. یکی از کردارهای برساخت بدن فعالیت های ورزشی است.مفروضه نظری این مقاله برساخت بدن به میانجی فعالیت های ورزشی در محل تقاطع مدرنیته اجتماعی و فرهنگی قرار دارد. بر این اساس بدن به نمایش هویت شخصی و مکان سرمایه گذاری فرهنگ هژمونیک نظام سرمایه داری بدل شده است. هدف این مقاله کاوشی در روایت مردان و زنان طبقه متوسط شهرستان سنندج از ورزش بدنسازی و ارتباط آن با صنعت آراسته گری و همچنین جایگاه این ورزش در برساخت بدن ایده آل مورد پذیرش اجتماعی است. به واسطه تاملات انتقادی که بدن در چارچوب ساختارهای مسلط فرهنگی و اجتماعی سرمایه داری قرار ی دهند، با استفاده از روش تحلیل روایت و استرتژی تحلیل مضمونی داستان بدن را از طریق فعالیت ورزشی بدن سازی تفسیر کرده ایم. یافته ها حاکی از استخراج 8 مضمون فراگیر است: 1) گریز از روزمرگی به میانجی مصرف بدن در بدنسازی 2) بدن جوان جهانی 3) استبداد متریک 4) بدن همچون نمایش 5) اندامگان فانتزی پست مدرن 6) بدن ویترینی مهندسی شده 7) امپریالیسم فرهنگی بدن رسانه ای 8) هویت فردی به مثابه بدن بزک شده. نتایج به دست آمده حاکی از آن است که ورزش بدنسازی همچون ابزاری در خدمت برساخت بدن تحت استیلای فرهنگ مصرفی هژمونیک سرمایه داری می باشد. بدن مبدل به کالایی فرهنگی شده است .

In recent years there has been a great advancement in molecular biology techniques, which enabled the researcheson influence of genetics on human performances in particular athletic performance. The role of genetic in sport hasbeen discussed and ethical issue is considerable for every one that uses this technology to enhance sportperformance. Talent identification, injury susceptibility and success in this field are the positive role but there ischallenge to detect gene cheating. This report is a big question for technology developer to understand the end ofthis field and preventing any abuse of science in gene doping.

The aim of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of hypnotic imagery on sports performance of athletes. The method of this research was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The statistical population of the research included the rowers of Tehran province in 2021. Due to the semi-experimental nature of the research, the research sample consisted of 30 participants (17 women and 13 men) who were selected by convenience sampling and randomly divided into two groups, the control (15 people, including eight women and seven men) and experiment (15 people, including nine women and six men). In this research, univariate and multivariate covariance analysis tests were used to collect information from athletes' records and to check research hypotheses. The results of data analysis showed that hypnotic imagery has an effect on sports performance and has led to the improvement of athletes' performance (p<0. 05). According to the results of this research, it can be said that one of the effective methods in improving the sports performance of rowers is hypnotic visualization

The research purpose was to look into the effectiveness of hypnosis on sporting performance of futsal players, our sample comprised 14 futsal players drawn from a larger sample of twenty four players aged 20-27. The mentioned group had been selected through simple random sampling and grouped into experiment and control groups. The experiment group was then provided with seven thirty-minute sessions on enhancing mental imagery, brain visualization, deeper concentration and relaxation in order to improve sporting performance (second spot penalty shoot out, constant passing and passing on the move from a distance of twenty meters). It’s worth mentioning that the control group didn’t receive the above-mentioned training programs. The obtained results found supports for a significant between-group difference in the sporting performance of futsal players with regard to second spot penalty shoot out, constant passing and passing on the move from a distance of twenty meters.