Overtraining In Sports

Athletes are pushing their bodies and stressing themselves out by working too hard and too fast; it causes injuries that take weeks or months to recover from. Overtraining has been pushing athletes too hard for too long.

I worked earnestly to be a varsity athlete and to keep my times up. I loved the feeling after a tiring workout and when I come home and have a refreshing glass of chocolate milk, and take a shower. I rarely stretched before and after a workout and never understood the importance of cooling down after a workout.

That’s probably why I injured myself every season.

During the week for cross country practices, we were running 3-5 miles everyday whether it was hills, a tempo run, or an effortless short run the day after a difficult

“They will do anything they can to improve their period performance, and they don’t know when to stop.”

Frequent or powerful hits often lead to concussions and brain damage that can affect athletes when they are older. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, C.T.E, is a brain disorder that is found in football players who took lots of hits to the head and soldiers who had experienced blast injuries. A University in Boston examined a few teenage brains who had played football, each of them had died after several days of a head injury. Two of the teenagers killed themselves. Scientists are unsure if their head injuries could have caused their suicides. The other two had died as a result of swelling in their brain; which probably happened when they had two head injuries within a short period of time which is also called “second-impact syndrome”.

“None of the individuals impacts was serious enough, in and of itself, to have caused death.” (Dr.Lee Goldstein). Later, researchers found that the impacts themselves could not cause death. The teenagers “blood-brain barriers” had been damaged and their blood vessels were starting to leak. One of the brains had been diagnosed with