ABSTRACT
Basic research could go deep through multidisciplinary approaches to self-talk, combining psychology with neurological, psychophysiological, biomechanical, and biochemical perspectives to the study of self-talk. In the years that followed, self-talk research developed steadily, with an emphasis on strategic self-talk interventions and the first “speaking clearly” paper from James Hardy opening new directions for self-talk research. The health benefits of exercise for the general, but also for the ill-health, population can help advancing research as self-talk can be a powerful tool for initiating and maintaining exercise. Such developments will benefit both self-talk in the exercise psychology field, but also in sport psychology field, as the evidence will flow and evoke new ideas. The potential of self-talk for self-regulation has attracted the fascination of researchers in endurance sport, and study of self-talk in the contexts has flourished.
