Overtraining Prevention
A special issue of Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology (ISSN 2411-5142). This special issue belongs to the section "Athletic Training and Human Performance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 16528
Special Issue Editors
Interests: training monitoring; elite athletes; endurance athletes (open water swimmers, triathletes and runners) functional and non-functional overreaching; overtraining prevention
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Interests: medical support; elites; training; health in triathletes both across the lifespan and vs. their sedentary age-matched peers; training adaptation; training diary based predictive models that can be used to minimize the occurrence of non-functional overreaching; injury and illness; pacing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Performance enhancement requires a delicate balance between training and recovery to avoid the negative consequences of training. Therefore, the optimization of training programs could benefit from information on an athlete’s subjective response to training, because coaches are not always aware of non-training related stress. This Special Issue aims to collect a series of original and review papers on the topic of functional/nonfunctional overreaching and overtraining syndrome prevention. After the publication of the ECSS/ACSM (Meeusen et al. 2006 and 2013) consensus statement, it has been easier to compare results from different research groups. However, there is still a lack of information regarding elite athletes, master athletes, and youth athletes competing at very high levels (i.e., youth Olympic games). In particular, master athletes have to fit training into already very busy schedules, and this balance might be even more delicate in such cases. Therefore, recovery strategies and training monitoring need to be optimized both for elite and master athletes.
Key paper topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Training monitoring for the prevention of nonfunctional overreaching;
- Case studies on nonfunctional overreaching/overtraining syndrome;
- Enhancement of recovery strategies to optimize performance.
Prof. Maria Francesca Piacentini
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Functional overreaching
- Non functional overreaching
- Training
- Maladaptation
- Monitoring
- Training Load
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