IMPROVING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAINING OF JUNIOR WEIGHTLIFTERS IN THE PRE-COMPETITION PERIOD

The authors in their article consider the issues of psychological training of weightlifters aged 18—20 years. The main task of psychological preparation for specific competitions is to create a state of mental readiness for the athlete to perform in competitions and help maintain it during the tournament. This topic is of particular importance at present as the physical perfection of athletes, especially in power sports, is close to the limit of capabilities of the human body. In this regard, a method of improving the psychological training of junior weightlifters in the pre-competition period was developed and implemented in practice on the basis of typological personality traits with the use of self-regulation techniques. With phlegmatic and melancholic athletes special attention was paid to the elimination of negative emotions. For choleric and sanguine people, breathing exercises were used. In the study, a number of psycho-diagnostic tests were used. Rapid assessment of well-being, activity, and mood was carried out with the use of a questionnaire consisting of 30 pairs of opposite characteristics, according to which the subject was asked to assess their condition; the level of neuro-psychic stability and the risk of maladaptation in stress were assessed with the aid of the “Forecast” test; the psychological state of the individual in terms of such mental conditions as anxiety, frustration, aggression, and rigidity was evaluated with the G. Aysenck self-assessment test. The results of the search and experimental work proved the validity of the developed method, as well as its effectiveness with weightlifters aged 18—20 years. By the end of the study, the athletes of the experimental group had increased activity and mood indicators and decreased the level of neuro-psychic tension, aggressiveness, frustration and rigidness. Analysis of intergroup indicators revealed significant representative differences in the results before and after application of this method.

weightlifting, juniors aged 18—20, psychological training, methods of self-regulation, typology of human temperaments, level of neuro-psychic stability, anxiety, frustration, aggressiveness, rigidity.

Sharina E. P., Moskalyonova N. A., Belkina N. V., Chumash V. V. Improving the psychological training of junior weightlifters in the pre-competition period. Business. Education. Law, 2021, no. 1, pp. 408—412. DOI: 10.25683/VOLBI.2021.54.119.