Fig. 13

The time-course analysis of the impact of a 20-week contest preparation on the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) (BISS) and the Body Image Satisfactory Scale with accompanying mean average (mean ± SEM; 95% CI:) comparison between BC and MBC on a) PSS, b) BISS. The MBC showed to have a higher mean PSS score (11.64 ± 1.17; 95% CI: 9.03–14.24) compared to the BC (8.09 ± 1.09; 95% CI: 5.66–10.52). The BC showed to have a higher mean BISS score (44.0 ± .75; 95% CI: 42.33–45.67) compared to the MBC (38.0 ± 1.16; 95% CI: 35.4–40.6). The red dashed line denotes competition