PECULIARITIES OF MOTIVATION AND EMOTIONAL STATE OF 12-13 YEAR OLD FLIPPER SWIMMERS DURING TRAINING ACTIVITY
The article reveals the importance of motivation and emotional state in achieving sports success. The basic motives of swimming in flippers of children and youth sports school of Olympic reserve are analyzed. The interrelation of motivation and states of well-being, activity and mood of young swimmers is shown. The reasons leading to the loss of interest and decrease of motivation of young athletes are substantiated. The necessity of increasing the means used in the process of training of flipper swimmers because of the narrow set of means used and the monotony of the conducted training is shown. A substantiation of the use of modern aqua-technologies in the training process of young swimmers is presented. It is shown that a great number of different types of exercises in the water with musical accompaniment, various equipment and ways of training are able to meet interests and needs of all young sportsmen without reducing the basic load. The results of the SUN technique to identify the emotional states of young swimmers before and after the use of aqua-fitness are presented. The obtained data of the pedagogical study demonstrate the effectiveness of the use of modern aqua-technologies in the training process of flipper swimmers of 12-13 years old in order to maintain a high level of motivation and emotional states.