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In sports, overtraining symptoms can be subtle. Are you overtraining? These articles will give you recovery training techniques you need by teaching you about adaptogens, hydrotherapy and muscle fatigue… To browse our library of free sports training articles, browse using the categories on the left or use the search box.
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Heart rate: new advances in monitors can eliminate the risk of overtraining
New heart rate technology allows you to monitor the cumulative fatigue of successive workouts
Recovery: how the right nutrition can help prevent overtraining
Specific nutritional practices can prevent overtraining and accelerate exercise recovery
The dangers of overtraining- how much and for how long should an athlete intensively train?
Should the serious athlete give up high-intensity exercise?
stress & overtraining
Stress & Overtraining : Strategies to ward off overtraining by dealing with stress from all sources
recovery
Recovery: what is the best strategy?
sports nutrition information
Sports nutrition information: From carbo-loading to nutrigenomics: Andrew Hamilton on the evergrowing sophistication of nutritional strategies in sport
muscle recovery
Muscle recovery: The post-exercise window of opportunity: why we need to start drawing the curtains
sports psychology article
Sports psychology article: Beset by 'Olympic phobia' and lacking in focus and toughness: a sport psychologist's damning verdict on the underperforming GB swim team
hydrotherapy
Hydrotherapy: Don't pour cold water over hydrotherapy
osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis: What happens when you hang up your sports kit - for good?
antioxidants
Can antioxidants help reduce post-exercise soreness?
underperformance syndrome
Underperformance Syndrome - how youth rugby coaches are using psychology to raise their players' game
exercise stress
Exercise stress: Strategies to boost your natural immunity and keep infection and the effects of exercise stress at bay
fatigue
Persistent fatigue and recurrent infections
Overtraining and Depression in sport: Is there a difference?
Overtraining and Depression: Is There a Difference?
Training Programme: are you using the right training work out?
Training Readiness
fat burning zone
Fat burning zone - Why athletes, fitness enthusiasts and slimmers should steer clear of the fat burning zone
How to balance intensive training with rest and recovery
How do you know when you're at risk of overtraining? It's a simple matter of how well you feel, sleep and eat
Training intensity: how hard should you train in order to achieve optimum competition performance?
The truth behind how intense an athlete should train before reaping the rewards
Aquarunning
Aquarunning: Why aquarunning didn't work for these inexperienced athletes.
overtraining warning signs
Overtraining warning signs - The big question is: how far can you push an athlete's training before breakdown occurs?
Fat-burning after ovulation
Female athletes fire up fat burning after ovulation, but does it make any difference to weight loss or competitive performance?
Workout value
The heart of the matter: here's a novel way to monitor your training load.
Cross-training
Cross-training: Can runners pedal their way to faster 5K times?
Crash training: wang and qu
Crash Training: Wang And Qu: It's the question on the lips of many elite female (and male) runners these days: will I ever be able to run as fast as Wang and Qu?
Recovery time
Recovery Time: To train well, you must find the right balance between hard work and recovery.
Improving performance
If you want to improve your performance times, turn up the intensity and turn down the volume.
Mood states
Mood States: High-level college swimmers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the States were studied for a research project published in 1991.
Tea
Tea: A cuppa can help you take the strain, but only when you drink it black.
creatine facts
Creatine facts: The latest research results are all good - and don't believe the rumour that it causes cramp.
endurance athletes immune systems
Endurance Athletes Immune Systems: Endurance athletes who swill a carbohydrate drink are not only helping their muscles but also their immune systems.
Intense training versus volume training
Intense Training Versus Volume Training: A new German study confirms that increasing intensity works better than upswings in volume.
Running Injuries: What you don't know about injuries can really hurt you.
How to avoid the most common sporting injuries
athletes diet
Athletes Diet: The triathletes who ate nearly twice as much, yet gained no weight, and improved their performance times by 8 per cent.
Lactate threshold heart-rate
Lactate Threshold Heart-rate: A question of distance, and how to work out your lactate threshold heart rate.
interval program training
Interval Program Training: To make your workouts more realistic, you should aim to trim down the recoveries.
Female cyclists | health | nutrition
Female cyclists health and nutrition: A guide to the proper care and feeding of female cyclists.
knee injuries symptoms 1
Knee Injuries Symptoms: Do your knees sometimes give you the blues? If so, you're in good company: knee injuries are the curse of many athletes, especially runners
Sports psychology: Tennis
Sports Psychology: Tennis. How a promising young tennis player was rescued from the clutches of overtraining.
Running economy 2
Running Economy 2: Here are some of the things your mum forgot to tell you about putting one foot in front of the other
overtraining | illness
Overtraining: Can adaptogens help athletes reduce their risk of infections and overtraining?
Eleutherococcus Senticosus
Eleutherococcus Senticosus: Can adaptogens help athletes reduce their risk of infections and overtraining?
Nourishing the immune system
If you suspect your immune system is getting flabby, toughen it up with nutrients.
shin splints treatment and shin splints exercise for athletes
Shin Splints Treatment And Shin Splints Exercise For Athletes: The casual phrase "shin splints" can really disguise a number of different complaints per week. Today, though, leg injuries are common in a variety of different sports.
Winning: 1
If you want to reach your peak level of performance and be a winner, especially in an endurance sport, you must accomplish five critical tasks:
overtraining effects on performance
Overtraining Effects On Performance: If you want to prevent staleness and overtraining, keep a record of your quality of sleep and levels of fatigue!
The testosterone effect
The Testosterone Effect: If you're training the right way, your gonads get into the act.
overtraining prevention
Overtraining prevention: When athletes train too much, problems start to crop up in their nervous, endocrine, and immune systems - problems which can leave the athletes anxious, depressed, low on energy, and vulnerable to infections. Can "Rusko's Rules" help.
Black and white: a comparison
Is it their high-intensity training that makes black African runners so fast?
Training volume
Training Volume: Long workouts and fast twitch muscles - a nice combination
Performance secrets
Performance Secrets: This new research suggests that sometimes the most important thing is what you DON'T do.
High altitude training
High Altitude Training: The best place in the world to train is in Finland.
training | depression | overtraining
Depression, Training and Overtraining
recovery | overtraining | swimming | norepinephrine
Swimming, overtraining, recovery and norepinephrine
recovery | overtraining | swimming | norepinephrine
Swimming, overtraining, recovery and norepinephrine
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