Recreational Exercises as an Element of Preventive Medicine in Professional Taekwondo Training

Contact with nature can influence our thoughts, feelings and actions in a positive way, allowing us to function more effectively as a form of preventive medicine. People are often inspired by nature for example, in biomimetic inventions, nature and natural systems are used as a resource to create new products or solutions, studies have shown that different forms of contact with nature are beneficial to us in different ways. The aim was to knowledge about the impact of outdoor recreational activity on the stress level and mental toughness of taekwondo athletes and their performance in the competition phase. The methods used were the Survey questionnaire (Sport Mental Toughness Questionnaire, Depression, Anxiety Stress Scales) and Gas Discharge Visualization (GDV) Technique (Stress level) and the Vienna test. It was revealed that the assessment of the impact of ‘physical activity in nature’ before the competition is the basis for further research on a group of high-skilled athletes and the effect will be activities related to the optimal level and reduction of negative such as pre-competition, i.e. ‘pre-competition fever and apathy’, improvement of such parameters as the state of full concentration and stress reduction during the competition. Additionally, it was noted that in the process of diagnosing sports training, in the psychological aspect, factors should be sought as selected elements of preventive medicine that can contribute to changing the current psychosocial state so that the results achieved in sports competition in the future are as good as possible.