A collegiate cross-country runner increases her mileage two months before the st

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A collegiate cross-country runner increases her mileage two months before the start of preseason conditioning. Because this will be her last year of collegiate competition, her mileage increases are significantly greater than in years past. She begins to notice that her muscles are more sore than usual after workouts. Her times remain good, and after an examination by the head athletic trainer she learns that her body composition, blood pressure, and resting heart rate are essentially unchanged since testing two months earlier. Is this athlete overtrained? What is the difference between overreaching and overtraining? If this pattern of unsupervised mileage increases continues, what might begin to happen to this athlete physiologically? Will her performance improve?

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It shows that athlete is not overtrained because the athlete has more sore muscles than usual after workout and also body composition and blood pressure and resting heart rate are unchanged and was same as since 2 months,overreaching is pushing the body beyond iys limits for a short period of time to stimulate a training response, it can be determental but often beneficial it takes 2 to 3 weeks to return, overtraining means training too often or at too high an intensity over a prolonged period of time, it is deterimental it takes 3 or more weeks to return to preovertraining performances levels. by this shows that athlete has decreased VOMax, percent body fat, muscle glygoden, lactate, and total testosteroneconcentration, in addition muscle sorness creatine kinase and submaximal exercise heart rate are likely to increase it is greater interest to the athlete so the peformances is likely to decrease significantly.

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