Endurance athletes are highly motivated and sometimes they push too hard. When athletes overdo it too often, they can harm their health or go so far that they prematurely end their endurance sports careers.
This course on Overreaching, Overtraining, and Burnout will explore these conditions, their differences, causes, prevention, symptoms, treatments, and recovery.
As a coach, the first step to managing your athletes’ workload and motivation is recognizing the symptoms of these conditions, which can easily by confused with everyday fatigue, underfueling, and other issues.
You will learn how to manage training loads, recognize the early signs of overtraining, and how to implement effective recovery strategies to help bring athletes back from the brink.
Covered in this course:
- Functional overreaching
- Nonfunctional overreaching
- Overtraining Syndrome (OTS)
- Burnout
This is a dark side of endurance sports. See how to help your athletes stay on a healthy path.
How to Enroll
All USA Cycling courses are offered exclusively through USA Cycling’s online learning management system at learn.usacycling.org.
Questions? Contact Suzy Sanchez, Director of DEI and Membership Programs, at ssanchez@usacycling.org.
