Overtraining and the complexities of coaches’ decision-making: managing elite athletes on the training cusp

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Table 1. Possible presentation of the different stages of overreaching and overtraining.

Process	Training (overload)		Intensified
			Training
Outcome	Acute fatigue	Functional overreaching	Non-functional overreaching	Overtraining syndrome
Recovery	Day (s)	Days – weeks	Weeks – Months	Months – …
Performance	Increase	Acute decrease (e.g. training camp)	Chronic stagnation or decrease	Decrease

Adapted from Meeusen et al. (2013).

Meeusen, R., Duclos, M., Foster, C., Fry, A., Gleeson, M., Nieman, D., & Urhausen, A. (2013). Prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of the overtraining syndrome: Joint consensus statement of the European college of sport science and the American college of sports medicine. Medicine and science in sports and exercise, 45, 186–205.

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