One of the most important qualities in weightlifting is attention, as a psychic phenomenon that supports the psychomotor activities. In this sense, our purpose was to study the attention capacity in top performance weightlifters. Methods. In order to develop our research, we selected 5 top performance weightlifters (boys) aged 26 to 34 years old, components of the "Steaua" Sports Club of Bucharest. We selected our subjects according to the performance criterion, all of them being masters of sports. The research included many stages (we mention that the present research is in progress, reason for which we present only the subjects` results in the initial evaluation), as follows: 1st stage: subject selection; 2nd stage: initial evaluation; 3rd stage: training program for the attention enhancement; 4th stage: final evaluation. For the attention evaluation, we used the Prague test (distributed attention) and the Toulouse-Pieron test (concentrated attention). Results. After the administration of the distributed attention and the concentrated attention tests, we found out that the investigated subjects registered different scores ("poor", "average", "good"). Conclusions. The analysis of the subjects` partial results suggests that their performances result from the compensation with other psychomotor qualities.
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