The need to change the organization of athletes psychological training for competitions

Alexey Nikolaev,Irina Kolbasova,Natalia Shlat,Julia Timofeeva,Z Kuznetsova,I Gibadullin,A Gorelov,A Kuznetsov,R Nagovitsyn,G Drandrov,E Vrublevskiy,A Pyanzin,B Shustin

doi:10.1051/bioconf/20202600032

Abstract

The article considers the arguments about the need to rethink the concept of athletes’ psychological training for the competition. The idea of the article is the shift to the teaching the means of individual psychological training of athletes for the competition. The accuracy of this concept is grounded on the empirical data. The article presents the data of the comparative analysis of employing by athletes the means of psychological training for the competition and opinion of coaches about it. The authors explain the reasons why coaches do not prepare football players psychologically in the process of physical, technical, and tactical training. 5 reasons to explain it are considered in the article. In the process of coaches’ training they are taught to regulate the psychological condition and behavior of athletes, but they are not taught how to train the athletes to do that themselves. The necessity of training football players in the means of self-regulation of their psychological condition for the matches has been proved.

Highlights

Psychological training of athletes both for a sports career in general and for a particular competition should be carried out by a psychologist of a sports team
If the coach has to perform the psychological training of athletes for a particular performance, it can be assumed that he has a set of tools for such training of athletes
In the process of future coaches training, the solution to this problem is not about training athletes to use the means of regulating their own condition and behavior. It is about the means the coach can use in the process of special psychological training of the athlete for the competition [5]

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Psychological training of athletes both for a sports career in general and for a particular competition should be carried out by a psychologist of a sports team. One can hardly meet a psychologist even in highperformance sports In this case, the question arises: who should psychologically prepare athletes for a competition if there is no psychologist? We can confidently say that coaches practically do not carry it out in their work [1,2,3] In this case, another question arises: why? If the coach has prepared the athletes physically, technically and tactically, the athlete can only use his sports capacity. It is obtained in the training process. Why is psychological training an exception? Why don’t athletes have the same psychological capacity?

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