THE INFLUENCE OF MOTIVATION ON THE MENTAL STATES OF ATHLETES IN THE TRAINING AND COMPETITION PROCESS

Abstract

Sports activities take place in difficult extreme conditions of competitions, characterized by training loads at the level of the ultimate capabilities of the human body. Physical and mental stress, unusual in intensity and duration, are caused by the characteristics of sports activities: the specifics of its subject, competitive focus, the need for constant improvement of sports achievements. The focus on achieving an ever better result in high-performance sports is always accompanied by serious psychophysical overloads.