A fighter's ability to mobilize his psychophysical reserves to improve the quality of sports activities in training and competitive conditions is determined by the degree of preparedness of the psyche.Many books and articles in popular science magazines have been written on the topic of psychological training in martial arts, but most of them describe ancient Eastern methods of psychoregulation practiced in various schools of Asian martial arts. At the same time, for many years, domestic experts in the field of sports psychology, psychophysiology of extreme activity conducted various studies, the results of which, as well as the methods of psychological preparation developed as a result of experiments, remained unknown to the broad masses of martial arts adherents. But these training methods are often more effective and easier to learn than Eastern esoteric practices. The book summarizes domestic and foreign experience of sports psychologists in the field of training a fighter - a subject of extreme activity. From the book, the reader will learn a lot of interesting information about the development of volitional qualities, about the ways of forming a special state of consciousness, about developing the optimal aggressiveness of a fighter, as well as about methods for restoring the psycho-emotional state. Most of the information provided is unique and has no analogues in publications on the psychological training of fighters, both in Russia and abroad.