Online Continuing Education Courses

Overuse Injury and Muscle Damage

• Define exercise training and identify the goal of exercise training for athletes
• List and explain the training principles
• Define and explain the goals of periodization
• Describe the cycle types within each phase of periodization
• Define and differentiate between overreaching and the overtraining syndrome (OTS)
• Distinguish between sympathetic and parasympathetic forms of OTS
• Discuss the major hypotheses proposed to explain the causes and mechanisms of OTS
• Identify components important to monitor during training
• Suggest techniques to prevent OTS
• Identify treatment for OTS
• Define detraining and indicate the factors that influence the magnitude and rate of loss of training adaptations
• Describe the consequences of detraining on the metabolic system, cardiorespiratory and the neuromuscular system