PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAINING AS A PREREQUISITE FOR ATHLETES TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS AT THE COMPETITIVE STAGE

The article deals with various methods and techniques used to develop the use of firearms in the internal affairs bodies of the Russian Federation. High quality of psychological training contributes to the effective use of weapons by the police of the Russian Federation.

Psychological training is of great importance for each athlete, which forms the future champion the necessary skills and abilities that will help him in his future professional career.

Psychological training of a shooter plays a very important role and is an indispensable element of comprehensive training. The psychological preparation of the shooter is a process aimed at creating the optimum mental health and constant internal readiness in the shooter. Such training contributes to the implementation of modern shooting techniques in stressful situations.

Achieving excellent performance while shooting under difficult psychological conditions requires police officers to have certain knowledge and skills. The definition of skills and training tools for police officers is the knowledge of the patterns of mental processes that are an integral part of every human being and their specific combination that determines the reactions and behavior of a person in a stressful situation.

At all times, athletes actively participating in competitions had one main task, which could fundamentally change the course of events - the psychological preparedness and the state of the athlete himself. And it is not a secret to anyone that not only physical, tactical and technical preparedness is important for achieving high results in any sport, but also psychological preparedness. It affects the overall readiness of an athlete, meaning that all the experience and hours of grueling training can lose its meaning in an instant if special attention is not paid to the inner state of the athlete.

Most athletes, chasing high results, spending all their time in training, working at the limit of their abilities, and not watching their state from within, where all the energy to work on themselves comes from, it is the motivation that makes the athlete to work up a sweat to achieve Olympic results, this charge is largely responsible for the negative impact on the athlete's nervous system, overloading it. The reasons for this condition are manifold, but it is important to note that it is precisely because of the insufficient level of psychological preparation and the influence of stress factors on the emotional and sensual sphere of a person, athletes, at best, suffer a defeat in the race or a deterioration of previous results, and at worst, they suffer disadaptation and psychophysical breakdown from which the athlete will have difficulty recovering and recovering, and even more difficulty to resume his previous habitual trainings.

This article reveals the concept of psychological preparation and its role in every athlete's life. Reasons are given for the failures of many athletes and it is concluded that psychological preparedness is extremely important for each athlete, regardless of the sport in which he is engaged.

Key words: shooter, shooting, competition, psychological preparation of a shooter, police, firearms, moral and psychological preparation.