Body and mind? Exploring physiological and psychological factors to explain endurance performance in cycling.

Endurance athletes attribute performance not only to physiological factors, but also refer to psychological factors such as motivation. The goal of this study was to quantify the proportion of the variance in endurance performance that is explained by psychological factors in addition to the physiological factor VOmax. Twenty-five athletes of the U17 Swiss Cycling national team (7f, 18 m, 15.