Abstract
Theories of sport, as well as the theories of individual sports branches, and thus of swimming as well, are closely and tightly interconnected by knowledge that change and redirect men towards various sports values. Teaching methods of altitude training of swimmers (above 2000m), as the subject of this paper, is the example of how to reach a consistent and, from the point of view of theory of sport, a utilitarian theory and teaching methods of sports training. By theoretic analysis of various information sources, generalizations on training of athletes - swimmers at higher altitude are made and they are, in function of new theoretic and practical paradigm, represented by greater number of cognitive levels such as: Level of prototheory, Level of technology of training, Level of teaching methods and organization of training process, Level of methodology and Level of training practice.