2250-0480 Special Issue: Bangladesh 50th year of Independence: Section I - Systematic Review Article - 2 P. No. 6 to 10 Beneficial Impacts of Visuomotor Behaviour Rehearsal on Performance of Athletic Skills: A Meta-Analytic Review SOUMENDRA SAHA 1 , FOUJIA HUDA 2 , HAIRUL ANUAR HASHIM 3 AND SRILEKHA SAHA 4 * 1&4 College of Arts and Sciences, International University of Business Agriculture and Technology (IUBAT) , Dhaka, Bangladesh 2&3 Ex. and Sp. Sci. Prog., School of Health Sciences, Univ. Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian, Malaysia ORCID ID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8624-7239 OPEN ACCESS ABSTRACT First Review by: Dr Maibam Chourjit Singh Background: Athletes continuously face with crucial challenges and multiple types of hindrances, which put deleterious effects onto their performance. Substantial amount of research investigations confirmed significance of mental skill training. Aim: This present review intended to systematically review published research literatures to (i) enable the researchers in this field with pertinent information on impacts of visualization or visuomotor behaviour rehearsal or imagery training on successful performance of athletic skills, (ii) identify potential areas of problems pertaining to performance disasters and to investigate on the VMBR or visualization training regimes, which had relative contribution on athletic performance enhancement. This article also intended to examine the theoretical constructs and objective implications of the prevalent and existing literature and to recommend future course of research experimentation in this domain of interest. Method: Multiple databases having articles published between 1980 and 2019, such as - PubMed, WOS, SCOPUS, SportDiscus, PsychINFO, PsycARTICLES, ProQuest, Google Scholar, ScienceDirect, ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and NDL (National Digital Library) databases were methodically searched for articles related to impact of VMBR training on performance of athletic skills. Results: Outcomes of the available dearth of literatures, however, hinted up on the possibility of combined introduction of visual imagery based physically executed simulated practice if athletic skills, as more potentially beneficial, compared to application of visualization or mental imagery alone. This review highlighted on facilitative impacts of visualization or VMBR or imagery interventions on athletic performance, and the overall effect size was evident as .89, with a confidence interval of .35, 1.43. Conclusions: Authentic RCTs conducted on VMBR or visualization were included in this review which had safe score (i.e., 5.72, which is considered as low bias). These studies clarified beneficial role of interventions on athletic performance. Salient features of VMBR training were identified and potential efficacy of those aspects on performance enhancement were explained. Second Review by: Dr. Miftakhul Jannah Final Review by: Dr. Debashish Chowdhury PROF. DR SRILEKHA SAHA College of Arts and Sciences, International University of Business Agriculture and Technology (IUBAT), Dhaka, Bangladesh COMPETING INTERESTS: Conflict of interest declared none Received: February 28 th 2021 Accepted: July 11 th 2021 Published: July 30 th 2021 CITATION: Saha S.; Huda, F.; Hashim, H.A. and Saha, S. (2021) Beneficial Impacts of Visuomotor Behaviour Rehearsal on Performance of Athletic Skills: A Meta- Analytic Review. International Journal of Life Science and Pharma Research. Section I - Systematic Review Article - 2. Special Issue: MS-BD50- Lit- Rev-2. P 6 - 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.22376/ijpbs/ijlpr/SP15/Oct/2021.1-27 KEYWORDS: VMBR, visualization, mental imagery, athletics, performance, movement skill 1. INTRODUCTION Competitive and committed participation in athletic activities, such as running, jumping, and throwing etc are referred as popular athletic events. Elite athletes are always vulnerable to face with the stressful situations, and hence they always need to be efficient in coping with stressful competitive situations 1-5 . Besides the all-pervasive misconception that coping with stress is a natural ability of the elite athletes 1,2&6 , there is false belief that, elite players are psychologically strong or mentally tough 7- 10 , or they have hardy personality 8,9,11 . These misleading conceptions often instigate majority of elite-players, to ignore psychological skill training, and hence without effective stress management skills, they mostly try to apply intervention techniques on their own and succumb to failure 1,2,6-10&12 . In previous research investigations, theorists attempted to evaluate limitations in athletic performance based on cognitive ability concerning motor coordination and skill 13 inhibitive impacts of heightened anxiety, arousal and attention relationships concerning athletic performance 14 . Long-time back Hull 15 and Spence and Spence 16 hypothesized on the significance of arousal, while Hanin 17 later emphasized on significance of a particular level of state anxiety as individual-specific zone of optimal sport performance for the athletes. Marten and colleagues 18 on the other hand highlighted on differential influence of cognitive and somatic anxiety on athletes, while Porges 19 stressed on autonomic functions and explained heart-rate variability as the basis of emotionality among athletes. Finally, Hardy 20,21 specifically explained differential relations between cognitive anxiety, arousal, and performance as the valid reason behind dismal athletic performance 20,21 . 1.1 An Overview of the Study This review study was conducted on the basis of research outcomes reported in literatures, which were critically analysed. With the intention of substantiating the research questions, only valid, authentic, and quality empirical evidence-based studies (i.e., RCTs), were included. An extensive literature search was conducted and followed by that, a PRISMA flow diagram, based on the literature search strategy was prepared. Although wide-ranging and extensive literature search was carried out, in order to maintain quality of this Literature Review: Bangladesh 50 th year. Impacts of VMBR on Athletic Performance