The book outlines a system for achieving an optimal psychophysical competitive state, methods for regulating the mental state, a method of objective control over the quality of auto-training, and the mental foundations for improving sports equipment. Some sections have been supplemented with new factual material. The monograph ends with two new chapters - “Brain Protection” and “Psychagogy and SpArt”. The book will be interesting and useful to athletes, coaches, sports doctors and psychologists, and can also be used as a teaching aid by students of institutes and academies of physical culture and sports.< /p>