RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 How much is too much? (Part 2) International Olympic Committee consensus statement on load in sport and risk of illness
JF British Journal of Sports Medicine
JO Br J Sports Med
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine
SP 1043
OP 1052
DO 10.1136/bjsports-2016-096572
VO 50
IS 17
A1 Martin Schwellnus
A1 Torbjørn Soligard
A1 Juan-Manuel Alonso
A1 Roald Bahr
A1 Ben Clarsen
A1 H Paul Dijkstra
A1 Tim J Gabbett
A1 Michael Gleeson
A1 Martin Hägglund
A1 Mark R Hutchinson
A1 Christa Janse Van Rensburg
A1 Romain Meeusen
A1 John W Orchard
A1 Babette M Pluim
A1 Martin Raftery
A1 Richard Budgett
A1 Lars Engebretsen
YR 2016
UL http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/50/17/1043.abstract
AB The modern-day athlete participating in elite sports is exposed to high training loads and increasingly saturated competition calendar. Emerging evidence indicates that inappropriate load management is a significant risk factor for acute illness and the overtraining syndrome. The IOC convened an expert group to review the scientific evidence for the relationship of load—including rapid changes in training and competition load, competition calendar congestion, psychological load and travel—and health outcomes in sport. This paper summarises the results linking load to risk of illness and overtraining in athletes, and provides athletes, coaches and support staff with practical guidelines for appropriate load management to reduce the risk of illness and overtraining in sport. These include guidelines for prescription of training and competition load, as well as for monitoring of training, competition and psychological load, athlete well-being and illness. In the process, urgent research priorities were identified.