• DR.RAKESH PATHAK

Lockdown has tested many people around the globe with more inclination towards family bonding and community safety and total mass isolation from outward activities. For a sportsperson, every tested field out there in sports is not bigger than the lockdown battlefield. As a sportsperson, it is a journey about cumulative daily actions, team bonding, and daily checks by their mentors and health specialist to keep them in shape and always ready whenever the game is on. The challenge during the lockdown period for most of the sportsperson is the restriction of the various vital actions needed to get in shape and eventually to get in the game. The absence of this vital action due to lockdown has created confusion, shock, irritability, fear, and frustration among athletes and the cut-off input parameters like Daily Quotient Management (DQM), metabolism activity, and nutrition absorption at the molecular level are leading to mental issues. This has been well established in the past researches that Elite athletes suffer from depression at a rate similar to the general population (rates range from 4 percent to 68 percent) and even suicidal ideation. The current review contributes to the importance of immediate goal needs and shift of mind set from competitiveness towards being mentally healthy. The gap created by lockdown in terms vital input factors of a sportsperson like team bonding, daily health and nutrition checks, and mentor guidance can be filled up by connecting virtually to sports, health, mental, and team members community and sharing their daily and weekly targets.

mental health, lockdown, virtual team bonding

"Mental Health of Sportsperson during Lockdown", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 8, page no.441-445, August 2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2008362.pdf

"Mental Health of Sportsperson during Lockdown", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 8, page no. pp441-445, August 2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2008362.pdf