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Definition, Types, Symptoms, Findings, Underlying Mechanisms, and Frequency of Overtraining and Overtraining Syndrome

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From an operational standpoint, overtraining can be defined as stress > recovery (regeneration) imbalance, that is, too much stress combined with too little time for regeneration –In this context, stress summarizes all individual training, non-training, and competition-dependent stress factors,–Particularly, additional exogenous non-training stress factors, such as social, educational, occupational, economic, nutritional factors, travel, and endogenous factors (genetic predisposition) exacerbate the risk of a resulting overtraining syndrome in a completely individual manner .The term overtraining syndrome describes an impaired state of health which is caused by overtraining and characterized by particular findings.

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    Manfred Lehmann, Uwe Gastmann & Jürgen M. Steinacker

  2. University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, 132 Mitchell Hall, La Crosse, Wisconsin, 54601

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  3. Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Movement Sciences, University of Limburg Maastricht, P.O.Box 616, 6200 MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands

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Lehmann, M., Foster, C., Gastmann, U., Keizer, H., Steinacker, J.M. (1999). Definition, Types, Symptoms, Findings, Underlying Mechanisms, and Frequency of Overtraining and Overtraining Syndrome. In: Lehmann, M., Foster, C., Gastmann, U., Keizer, H., Steinacker, J.M. (eds) Overload, Performance Incompetence, and Regeneration in Sport. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-34048-7_1

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