The paper proposes that autonomic imbalance and pituitary-adrenal axis alterations explain performance incompetence in overtraining syndrome.
The described functional alterations of pituitary-adrenal axis and sympathetic system can explain persistent performance incompetence in affected athletes.
Lehmann et al. (Wed,) studied this question.
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