Why the study?
Does intense training compromise performance in athletes?
Does intense training compromise performance in athletes?
Highlights the need to determine the threshold where intense training compromises athletic performance.
May compromise athletic performance beyond an unidentified threshold; leaves open the precise cutoff and warrants prospective trials.
Overtraining is a problem that many physicians, athletic trainers, coaches, and athletes face when striving for improved performance. The challenge is to know how much training is too much for each athlete before overtraining symptoms occur. Researchers seek to determine whether a point exists at which intense training compromises performance.
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Susanna Levin (1991) studied this question.
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