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How much is too much? (Part 1) International Olympic Committee consensus statement on load in sport and risk of injury
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posted on 2016-10-26, 10:12 authored by Torbjorn Soligard, Martin Schwellnus, Juan-Manuel Alonso, Roald Bahr, Ben Clarsen, H. Paul Dijkstra, Tim J. Gabbett, Michael Gleeson, Martin Hagglund, Mark R. Hutchinson, Christa Janse van Rensburg, Karim M. Khan, Romain Meeusen, John W. Orchard, Babette M. Pluim, Martin Raftery, Richard Budgett, Lars EngebretsenAthletes participating in elite sports are exposed to high training loads and increasingly saturated competition calendars. Emerging evidence indicates that poor load management is a major risk factor for injury. The International Olympic Committee convened an expert group to review the scientific evidence for the relationship of load (defined broadly to include rapid changes in training and competition load, competition calendar congestion, psychological load and travel) and health outcomes in sport. We summarise the results linking load to risk of injury in athletes, and provide athletes, coaches and support staff with practical guidelines to manage load in sport. This consensus statement includes guidelines for (1) prescription of training and competition load, as well as for (2) monitoring of training, competition and psychological load, athlete well-being and injury. In the process, we identified research priorities.
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International Olympic Committee
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British Journal of Sports MedicineVolume
50Issue
17Pages
1030 - 1041Citation
SOLIGARD, T. ... et al, 2016. How much is too much? (Part 1) International Olympic Committee consensus statement on load in sport and risk of injury. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 50 (17), pp. 1030-1041.Publisher
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2016-07-05Publication date
2016-08-17Notes
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal British Journal of Sports Medicine and the definitive published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2016-096581.ISSN
0306-3674eISSN
1473-0480Publisher version
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Load managementRecoveryAdaptationMaladaptationStressTrainingCompetitionCalendarCongestionSaturationPsychosocial stressorsTravelExternal loadInternal loadResponseAcute:chronic load ratioSpikesInjuryOveruseAcuteWellbeingFatigueFitnessMonitoringMeasurementEducationMedical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
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