Stress and Overtraining in Cyclist – Ian Craig
Lee was a 42-year-old competitive cyclist who, despite having a well-designed training programme (from his club coach) and being very dedicated to his sport, had experienced deterioration in performance over the past two seasons. He had been putting the same effort into his training but gaining less of a training effect than in previous years […]
Overtraining revisited from an integrative perspective – Ian Craig
Overtraining is a well-studied phenomenon in sports medicine, but it may also be viewed as adrenal fatigue in integrative health practices. Ian Craig pulls together a few physiological models and considerations to help us understand this term better. Overtraining interests me a lot, not just because during my own athletic career, I often pushed my […]
