Table 3.

Adapted content of the six-week MFP programme in table tennis.

Weeks	Specific Content for Table Tennis
1	Definition of an individualized relevant focus of attention for each player to be used before each service, such as visualizing ball trajectory or focusing on the target. Introduction to scans (i.e., ask and answer in your mind the two questions ‘What I am thinking about? What do I feel?’) and to mindfulness sessions presented as focusing on breathing (10 min session in a sitting position to notice distractions and refocus on breathing).
2	Remind to use focus of attention in the routine before serving. Mindfulness practice: ‘focusing on breathing while sitting’ sessions. Homework: Practice scans everyday.
3	Remind to use focus of attention in the routine before serving. Mindfulness practice: ‘focusing on breathing while standing’ sessions. Homework: Practice scan and integrate it during table tennis session in the routine before serving or receiving.
4	Introduction to acceptance (notice and accept thoughts and feeling as transitory mental events). Presentation of sessions with train, cinema, and clouds metaphors (watch the train of thought/feelings, watch a movie of your mental events, watch clouds carrying your mental events). Emphasis is placed on being an observer and on considering mental events as only mental events. Mindfulness practice: ‘focusing on breathing’ sessions and acceptance sessions based on the metaphors. Homework: Shorten scan to 2 min and increase scan in the routine before serving or receiving.
5	Mindfulness practice: Acceptance sessions based on metaphors and integrated mindfulness sessions, alternating focus on breathing for 2 min and playing table tennis for 2 min, repeated 5 times. Homework: Increase the number of brief scans in the routine before serving or receiving.
6	Mindfulness practice: Acceptance sessions based on metaphors and integrated mindfulness sessions, alternating focus on breathing for 1 min and playing table tennis for 1 min, repeated 5 times. Homework: Increase the number of brief scans in the routine before serving or receiving.