During the last decade, mental training has become a complementary and particularly valuable means in the technical and tactical training of sportsmen. This type of training owes its use to its quality to improve performance. It is a training method that does not entail physical effort and in certain circumstances, such as accidents, long travels and breaks in practical training, can successfully replace the latter one. Furthermore, when imagining certain movements, variations of blood pressure occur in the capillary vessels as well as changes in electrodermal reflexes, breathing (respiratory frequency) and body temperature. The techniques employed helped to prove the positive effects of mental training. Among the research objectives worth mentioning are the correlated neurophysiological components involved in the creation of complex kinetic representations.
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