Burnout and Overtraining Flashcards
How does the prevalence of burnout and overtraining occur?
As the pressure to win increase and the athletes spend more time training and feeling stress.
What is periodized training?
The deliberate strategy of exposing athletes to high volume and high intensity training followed by lower training load
What is overtraining?
A short cycle of training during which athletes expose themselves to excessive training that are near maximum.
What are key points of overtraining?
One persons overtraining might be another’s optimal load
The process can result in both positive adaptations (improved performance) and maladaptations (decrease performance)
What happens to mood states when athletes overtrain?
They are exposed to increased mood disturbances
Successful athletes show high levels of vigour and lower levels of negative mood states
Overtrained athletes show interveted iceberg (negative moods are more pronounced)
What are effects of overtraining on performance?
Higher risk of mood disturbances
Mood disturbances can decrease performance
More is not always better
What is staleness?
The physiological state of ovetraining in which the athlete has difficulty maintaining standard training regimens and can no longer achieve previous results.
What is burnout?
A psychological response due to frequent but generally ineffective efforts to meet excessive demands, involving a psychological, emotional and sometimes physical withdrawal from a an activity in response to excessive stress or disatisfaction
What are charcteristics of burnout?
Exhaustion both physicla and emotional int eh form of lost concern, energy, interest and trust
Dpersonalization - acting impersonal and unfeeling - in large part due to mental and physical exhaustion
Feeling od low personal accomplishment, low self-esteem, failure and depression - often visible in low job productivity or decrease performance level.
What is the negative training stress response model?
Focus on physical training (recognizes the importance of psychology)
Physicaltrianing stresses the athlete physically and psychologically can have positicve and negative effects
Postive adaptations are desirable
Negative adaptations lead to overtraining and burnout
What is the unidimensional identity development and external control model?
Stress is only a symptom of burnout
Real causes deal with faulty identity development and external control of young athletes
What are unidimensional model causes of burnout?
The structure of sport prevents young athletes from spending enough time with peers
Casues a sole focus on identifying with athletic success, which can be unhealthy if failure or injury occur
Social worlds are controlled so that their control and decision making is inhibited
What is the commitment and entrapment theory?
Burnout explained by the context of sport commitment
Burnnout occurs when athletes become entrapped in sport and feel they must play even with lack of motivation
What is the self-determination theory?
People have three basic psychological needs : autonomy, competence and relatedness
Those without these needs are prone to burnout
What is the Maslach Burnout Inventory?
Reliable instrument for measuring burnout
Has been adapte dand modified for use in sport
Subscales:
-Emotional exhaustion
-Depersonalization
-Personal accomplishments
