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Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, 2008

1 online zdroj

ISBN 9781492595694 (online)

ISBN 9781492574019 (PDF ebook)

ISBN 9780736067874 (print)

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Overtraining Athletes: Personal Journeys in Sport seeks to communicate the complex subject of overtraining to help athletes, coaches, parents, and sport science professionals understand the dangers of overtraining and take steps toward prevention. Using history and research, current experts’ perspectives, and athletes’ personal experiences, Overtraining Athletes identifies forces that push athletes to overtrain by sharing the struggles of those athletes and the sport professionals who seek to help them. The text employs a nonlinear structure, allowing the flexibility to sample chapters from each of its four parts based on interest and level of knowledge about the topic. By presenting the phenomenon of overtraining from a variety of perspectives and with varying degrees of technicality, the book engages a wide range of readers while presenting significant research and studies in the area. Each of the four parts of the text displays a distinct method for discovering how overtraining affects athletes, coaches, parents, and professionals. Part I begins with a review of research examining aspects of overtraining, including prevalence, physiological and psychological manifestations, and outcomes. It concludes by discussing risk factors that increase the probability of overtraining. In part II coaches’ and sport scientists’ views on overtraining risk factors are presented. The authors interviewed 14 experts from major sport organizations in Australia to glean their perspectives on the possible variables associated with overtraining. With the perspectives of these experts, readers may identify the characteristics, behaviors, and experiences of susceptible athletes, as well as the situations, factors, sport cultures, and people that both pressure athletes to increase their training and affect athletes’ needs for recovery. (...).

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Part I. What We Know So Far -- Chapter 1. Introduction to Research and Terminology in Overtraining ; Perspectives on Telling Tales ; Evolution and Changes in this Project ; Sorting Out the Terms Review of OT Terminology -- Chapter 2. How Big Is It? Prevalence and Manifestation of Overtraining ; Physiological Markers of Overtraining ; Psychological Markers of Overtraining -- Chapter 3. What Brings It On? Risk Factors for Overtraining ; Risk Factors for Overtraining Based on Personal Experience ; Summary of Risk Factor Research ; Directions for Research on Overtraining Phenomena -- Part II. What the Experts Have to Say -- Chapter 4. Coaches’ and Sport Scientists’ Views on Risk Factors ; Characteristics, Behaviors, and Experiences of Susceptible Athletes ; Situations, Factors, and People That Pressure Athletes to Increase Training ; Situations, Factors, and People That Affect Athletes’ Needs for Recovery -- Chapter 5. Burnt Cookies: Conversations With an Exercise Physiologist ; Studying Oneself ; David Martin, PhD, Exercise Physiologist ; Further Conversation With David Martin -- Chapter 6. Sport Systems Can Damage: Conversations With a Sport Psychologist ; Dr. Trisha Leahy ; Canberra, 2001 ; Five Years Later in Hong Kong ; Some Reflections on this Chapter -- Part III. What We Can Learn from Athletes -- Chapter 7. The Pathogenic World of Professional Sport: Steve’s Tale -- Chapter 8. A Case of Olympic Seduction: John’s Tale -- Chapter 9. The Perfect Girl: Jane’s Tale -- Chapter 10. The Perfect Boy: The Author’s Tale -- Part IV. Past Models and Current Conceptions -- Chapter 11. Models of Overtraining: Then and Now ; Synthesis of Experts’ Perspectives and Athletes’ Experiences ; The OT Risks and Outcomes Model ; OT Risks and Outcomes Model Compared to Other Models -- Afterword: Where to From Here? -- Future Directions -- Parting Glances