Overtraining In Power Sports

“10 percent of athletes are overtrained at any given time.” 60 percent of elite runners and 33 percent of non-elite runners become overtrained at some point. Not only are runners highly affected but swimmers and athletes training for triathlons or high performance events as well. This syndrome develops from 4-6 hours of training a day 6 or more days a week for months on end without a break. Not having the appropriate equipment or water for your body mass adds to the issue that is already created from the excessive amounts of training. The worst case of Overtraining Syndrome is overtraining in “power” sports. Such as weight lifting, judo, and other sports that require lots of muscle building. Overtraining more times than not leads to the end of the athletes career or life time issues. The syndrome has been on the hot list of scientist because of signs that overtraining is leading to upper respiratory tract infections in swimmers and runners. On the flip side people find …show more content…
Most cases come from college swimmers that have overreached their max. However scientist have yet to confirm that overtraining is the leading factor of the URTI. They say overtraining increases the risk of the infection but they don’t have enough reported incidents to prove the fact. One out of eight swimmers they studied came out with the infection, in order to prove that URTI is a leading injury of overtraining seven out of eight would have to come out of the study with the respiratory tract infection symptoms. The scientist have said they will test their theory again in 2020. They think because of the time in day change that the coaches are pushing the athletes harder which could possibly change the results they first saw in 2000. Possibly leading them to confirm that overtraining does lead to higher possibilities of having