Predicción de los factores psicológicos de la ejecución deportiva según el Flow en practicantes de Crossfit

Abstract

Crossfit is a practice that has grown very rapidly in recent years and is characterized by high intensity training that includes different types of exercises. The present study was carried out to predict the different psychological factors in sports performance from the Flow states in a sample of 466 adult male Crossfit practitioners from the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and Greater Buenos Aires (Argentina), with a mean age of 28 ± 6.47 years. All participants completed a sociodemographic questionnaire, the Flow states scale (FSS) and the psychological inventory of sports performance (IPED). The results showed autotelic experience, the balance between skill and challenge, and the loss of self-consciousness to be the greatest predictors of psychological factors in sports performance, demonstrating the importance of such factors in the practice of Crossfit. These results contribute to determine the profiles of practitioners, as well as to help coaches, in a practice that is increasingly popular.