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overtraining syndrome: a standalone construct

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overtrainingsyndrome1 CONSTRUCTOvertraining syndromeMEEUSEN ET AL. · 2013

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Sports medicine

Long-term underperformance from too much load, too little recovery

In sports medicine, the overtraining syndrome is a long-lasting decline in performance, accompanied by persistent fatigue and mood or physiological disturbance, that results from an imbalance between training and recovery and does not resolve with a short rest. It sits at the far end of a continuum: a short, planned overload causes functional overreaching with rebound gains, a deeper overload causes nonfunctional overreaching with stalled performance, and the syndrome itself can take months to recover from. The 2013 joint consensus statement of the European College of Sport Science and the American College of Sports Medicine, led by Meeusen, defined the continuum and the diagnosis by exclusion of other causes. The referent is a maladaptive state of chronic underrecovery, identified by prolonged performance loss once other illness is ruled out.[1]

Unit
The depth and duration of unexplained performance decline relative to recovery time
Recovery means
Recovery is the defining axis: functional overreaching rebounds in days, nonfunctional overreaching in weeks, and the full syndrome may take months of rest
Measured by
Diagnosed by prolonged, unexplained underperformance plus fatigue after excluding organic disease; supported by mood, hormonal, and performance-test changes

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References

  1. Meeusen, R., Duclos, M., Foster, C., Fry, A., Gleeson, M., Nieman, D., Raglin, J., Rietjens, G., Steinacker, J., & Urhausen, A. (2013). Prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of the overtraining syndrome: Joint consensus statement of the European College of Sport Science and the American College of Sports Medicine. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 45(1), 186–205. https://doi.org/10.1249/MSS.0b013e318279a10a

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