Overtraining and maladaptation: terminology and assessment

Issues in your TRAINING, RECOVERY, FOOD and more, DO NOT manifest the same for fast 🚀 and slow twitch 🐢 athletes!

Elias Lehtonen wants you to understand that when you have MESSED ❌ something up chronically, your WHOLE BODY is fried - not just one system. So much so, that you will BARELY be able to start exercising without getting a massive lactate increase ⬆️. BUT this can be different from athlete type to athlete type!

In the 141st episode of The Training Science Podcast, Paul & Elias discuss:

🫁 OXYGEN and how it matters so much for health, aging and performance; 

🥱 what to do about overtraining OR rather: MALadaptation ;

📊 why measuring EFFORT once more comes out on top.

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Today’s speakers:

Prof. Paul Laursen https://www.paullaursen.com/  

Elias Lehtonen https://twitter.com/EliasLehtonen 
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References:

Elias’ health & performance clinic:

https://hula.fi/

Wagner O2 model:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169260710000659

Wagner diagram tool:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38749432/ 

Framework for PA guidelines:

https://bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/8/2/e001339 

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