Sport and Exercise Medicine: The UK trainee perspective (A BJSM blog series) By Dr. Natasha Beach The fast-growing sport of triathlon (1) comes in a variety of forms. The most commonly used short distance, known as the super sprint has a 400m swim, 10km cycle and 2.5km run. Sprint distance (the next level up), refers to a […]
Category: overtraining
Overtraining symposium at EFSMA congress – Salzburg; Overtraining insights
Richard Budgett opened the batting for the symposium – his experience as an Olympian, long-time team physician and researcher leads him to look at ‘unexplained underperformance’ as a key issue. ‘Labelling it as overtraining can make coaches twitchy’ and he explained that the topic has to be dealt with sensitively with coaches. A good point. […]