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65% of the top athletes in Sweden now use forms of mental training and mental preparation and a similar investigation in 1980 showed 30% used this. Large variations exist between various national teams and individual sports use more mental training than team sports. The Swedish Model is characterized best in sports like tennis, table tennis, golf etc.
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Uneståhl, LE. (1996). Mental Training for Sport and Life. In: Rogozkin, V.A., Maughan, R. (eds) Current Research in Sports Sciences. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2510-0_11
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