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A training stimulus can be effective only if intensity and duration of the training workload correspond to the present individual workload capacity. On this narrow strait between training below an effective threshold on the one hand and overtraining on the other, sports medicine has different blood parameters at its disposal, which we discuss in this paper.
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Urhausen et al. (1992) studied this question.
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