PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES IN SWIMMER PERFORMANCE TRAINING
Abstract
In the XXI century, professional sports has become a social,psychological, educational and cultural issue that concerns both
society and the individual. It concerns society in the sense that its
going forward and progress of mankind depends on understanding
how international social relations are regarded, on which sport
really focuses; the individual as the child’s physical, mental, emotional
and moral development is influenced by the time spent for
building his own self . Currently, performance sport turns into a
measure of social wealth and represents an effective means for the
harmonious development of personality. Since the second half of
last century, the sport has seen strong growth in terms of performance,
sports centres, equipment, apparatus, facilities, structural
organization, competition, management and research.
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