STRATEGY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPPORT OF TRAINING HIGHLY QUALIFIED ATHLETES: RESOURCES AND LIMITATIONS

The research is prompted by the contradiction between the increase in the importance of psychological factors in ensuring the competitiveness of athletes and the absence of a scientifically based system of psychological support for the long-term training of athletes.
The purpose of the research is to establish resources and barriers for improving the psychological support of highly qualified athletes.
Research method and organization. The research was carried out by the method of theoretical and methodological analysis. It is based on the theses of the well-known psychologist and methodologist Y.A. Ponomarev on the ratio of the level of development of science and its applied potential.
Research results and discussion. The results of the study showed that the most significant barrier for improving the psychological support of athletes is the insufficient development of the psychological theory on the inclusion of a personality in sports activities. It is shown that theoretical comprehension of some psychological problems of athletes allows to create psychological resources to reduce the likelihood of their occurrence in high-class athletes. It was confirmed by studies of the effects of early professionalization of athletes of primary school and adolescent age. These studies showed that in each of the indicated age periods there are prerequisites for the formation of both psychological resources, that contribute to successful sports improvement, and barriers, that complicate this process. It has been established that the natural reason for the negative or positive effects of including children in sports is the degree of compliance of the requirements of sports training of the athletes' personality and the main line of mental development for a particular age. The possibility of pro-active development of psychological resources for the success of athletes’ activity and prevention of the occurrence of psychological barriers that hinder the growth of athletes’ sportsmanship has been proved in experiments.
Conclusion. The resources for improving the psychological support of athletes include: a pro-active approach to the psychological support of athletes' training, clarification of the composition of psychological resources necessary for athletes, based on the creation of a psychological theory on the inclusion of athletes in sports activities, determination of the specifics of the tasks of the psychological support for the athletes’ training at different stages of a sports career, high-quality training of sports psychologists, improvement of the psychological education of coaches.

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