Abstract
The paper presents findings on the awareness and use of psychological preparation of top Czech swimmers. The role of the research object played the men and women swimmers of the representative teams of the Czech Republic.
Collection of dates is based on a questionnaire survey. This questionnaire survey was put together for the sake of the goal's purpose and revised by specialists at psychology and swimming.
The gained data are presented by means of the quantitive projection in the chart and graphic form. The final outcome proves a certain cognizance of the competitive swimmers about the relevance of the psychological training.
But by most of them is the psychological training considered as insufficient. Only few of the respondents take the advantage of coactions with a sports psychologist.
The most frequented psychological methods used by swimmers are - verbal influencing, self-regulatory resources and music incentive. Key words: sports swimming, training, psychological training methods