Sport keeps you healthy, they say. But too much training can also make you ill. For example, the athlete Burnoutwhich increases the risk of depression is widespread. For top athletes, the risk of depression remains high due to performance pressure, overtraining and too few relaxation phases often the soul on the line. After all, just like any other person, a competitive athlete is naturally just as susceptible to mental illness.
Empty battery due to overtraining
Sport and training are also Stress factors for the body. During every training session, mechanical, energetic and mental stress is exerted on our body. Thereby we use up energy which has to be refilled. If training and regeneration are in an optimal ratio, our performance curve goes up. If they are in an Disparity our power curve goes down.
A big mistake that many athletes often make is not paying enough attention to Training Planning and the appropriate regeneration ...to keep me busy. So it can happen that slowly but surely you get into a so-called Overtraining slides.
Symptoms
The overtraining can be noticed by many symptoms. These can be physiological (physical) as well as psychological signs. Often people affected by overtraining suffer from the following symptoms:
- listlessness and fatigue
- Insomnia
- frequent sickness (colds)
- Increased resting and stress pulse
- elevated lactate levels
- increased susceptibility to injuries
- Pain
- Injuries of the musculature (torn muscle fibre)
- Fatigue fractures
So sport also stresses the hobby sportsman
When sport becomes stress, body and mind react with warning signals:
- The sports appointment after work becomes an additional Mandatory date.
- Already the journey to the sporty appointment happens under Time pressure.
- You tense up when doing sports and the exercise means no longer just fun. It is much more about competition and prestige.
- The sport is played irregularly (when the time is right) and with too high an intensity exercised. Running with an average heart rate of 160 is not the purpose of a sporting activity to switch off after a working day.
- The body should not suffer permanently from the sport of the previous days. "If it doesn't hurt me the next day, I haven't trained enough!" is not the right attitude.
Reduce stress during sports
Sport and training should be permanently no stress factor be. If you perceive sport as an additional compulsory event, which you do under time pressure, or if you only focus on competition and torture, you should Reconsider attitude.
In addition, the situation around the sporting activity can also promote stress during exercise. Job-related or learning stress, relationship problems, time pressure, poor nutrition or poor regeneration after illness, for example, also play a role and can reduce the make sport a painalthough the opposite is actually intended in the form of distraction.
In the end. proper balance between training, Nutrition and regeneration are decisive. If you have the feeling that you can't find this balance and often the air is out during training, the muscles ache for a long time even after light units and the overcoming of the training is getting bigger and bigger, you should give a Sports physician or family doctor to visit his have values checked.
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