Training and overtraining: An overview and experimental results in endurance sports

Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 7-17

  Lehmann, M J ^a   Lormes, W ^a   Opitz Gress, A ^a   Steinacker, J M ^a   Netzer, N ^a   Foster, C ^b   Gastmann, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^b Milwaukee Heart Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticotropin; Heat Shock Proteins 70; Muscle fatigue physiology; Neuromuscular junction physiology; Overtraining; Physical education and training; Physical endurance, physiology; Somatotropin; Sympathetic nervous system physiology

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CATECHOLAMINE; CORTICOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN;

AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CELL DAMAGE; COMPETITION; ENDURANCE; FATIGUE; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MOOD; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; OVEREXERTION; RECEPTOR DENSITY; REVIEW; SPORT; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYNDROME; TRAINING;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; AFFECT; AMINO ACIDS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; CATECHOLAMINES; FATIGUE; GLYCOGEN; GROWTH HORMONE-RELEASING HORMONE; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INFECTION; MOTOR NEURONS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; PITUITARY GLAND; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, BETA; REPRODUCTION; RISK FACTORS; SPORTS; STRESS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; SYNDROME;

EID: 0030953248     PISSN: 00224707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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