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Perspectives on Correct Approaches to Training

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Overload, Performance Incompetence, and Regeneration in Sport

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The life of endurance athletes is about effort, effort during competition and especially effort during training. In preparation for an Olympic competition in the marathon, a race of about 2 hours, an elite runner may train 20 hours per week for nine months or more. In other sports such as cycling, swimming or Nordic skiing, the number of training hours may exceed this. In individuals willing to spend the time and effort to do the requisite training, remarkable endurance performances are possible. This ability to improve with training presents a seductive lure to do more and more training in quest of achieving a desired competitive result. However, it is clear that without the basic ability to perform at a good level with minimal training, no amount of training will “make a thoroughbred out of a plow horse”.

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  1. Department of Exercise and Sport Science, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, 132 Mitchell Hall, LaCrosse, Wisconsin, 54601

    Carl Foster

  2. SUNY-Cortland, Cortland, New York

    Jack T. Daniels

  3. Agder College, Kristiansand, Norway

    Stephen Seiler

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  1. Medical University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany

    Manfred Lehmann

  2. University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, Wisconsin

    Carl Foster

  3. Medical University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany

    Uwe Gastmann

  4. University of Limburg Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Hans Keizer

  5. Medical University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany

    Jürgen M. Steinacker

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Foster, C., Daniels, J.T., Seiler, S. (1999). Perspectives on Correct Approaches to Training. 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_3

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