Training Stress Process Tied to burnout Can erode performance Mind plays tricks on you Normal stress process athletes go through UNC Sports Psychologist John Silva He says when the total duration of training exceeds 15 hours per week you may experience part of a problem with training stress process Want to prevent stressful process look for signs that make you vulnerable The worst thing that can happen from the training stress process is that an athlete will want to drop out of a sport Something you really really enjoy is no longer fun You get burnt out and don t love the sport in anymore There s stress in training cannot be in athletics without training though There is both physical and mental strength There are 2 sides to Training Stress Process Positive Adaptation and Negative Adaptation Positive Practice and practice and getting better Establishing motor memory and can see yourself getting better Seeing gains in skill and ability Negative Going through the same thing as everyone practicing and practicing but no gains No gains means a lag in gains This is when staleness begins to occur or slump Could be due to fatique or overwhelm Might go into a technical anymore have physical or psychological slump Working through it doesn t work So you try to over train try harder and you ll do better ideal But you mechanical and metabolic overload You re too fatiqued Then you get psychological overload Don t confuse overloading with overtraining Overloading is a positive thing you re challenging yourself Overtraining is a psychophysiological psychology of pushing a fatiqued body malfunction You can t adjust to what you ve been asked to do You re over pushing yourself without results OVERLOAD IS TRAINING SMART OVERTRAINING IS BAD Finally you get burnt out so stressed that you don t like the activity anymore even though you used to love it Can happen in all situations The worst result is withdrawal from the activity The best place to catch the lag in the Negative part is in the staleness or slump stage It is very difficult to get someone back in the groove when they ve past this point especially if they reach the burnt out phase Physiological Factors having an effect on performance can go with staleness or slump Neuromuscular muscle soreness and fatique rapid heart rate blood pressure sport anemia metabolic problem drop in glycogen reduction in card intake loss of energy wrestlers experience serious deprivation immunological increase in head colds and respiratory infections kinesiological factors loss of body weight loss of appetite chronic dehydration loss of lean muscle tissue rest is always the best way to heal these problems
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