Fatigue over more fatigue, Train and train, without resting much and if we do, In a bad way ... this could be understood as a way to improve for some and for others, a way of tiring in excess and with which, Our body is impact.

The latter fool has nothing, quite the opposite, Intelligent and with a parasympathetic nervous system capable of letting us know that something does not work with these training we are doing ... Have we passed?

We will talk here about Once in order deportivo, pathology that we will describe as fatigue for effort, exhaustion, apathy, Letargo and decay in athletes on the other hand healthy, therefore, It can affect all types of athlete, indifferently, sex or sports level.

There are people who believe that Over -finding is a physical pathology, And that exhaustion is a psychological condition. It is not so, They are intertwined, since most psychological states have a physical basis, biochemistry, Metabolic and/or Neurohormonal.

To understand why this overcoming is produced we must understand one of the bases of sports training: the effects of training are the body's response by stress to the workload.

If this stress is too high, The body cannot respond and adapt and the consequence can be the oversight, what is in the background, A catabolic response or degradation.
As athletes we know that in cyclic sports such as cycling or Mountain Bike we must enhance our performance maximum to obtain the best results in the main planned competitions of the season, requiring large training volumes and high intensity sometimes to get well to these objectives, But ... at what price? What symptoms can I notice?

Here are one of its main and easiest Symptoms to persuade overending:

• Poor dream, inadequate and not repairing.
• Humor alterations, among them anxiety, Irratibalitad, loss of enjoyment and sadness.
• Loose performance with equal or increased training.
• Vague physical molesties.

Once its main symptoms have been defined, We ask ourselves: And how have we got here? Some of the causes This could be:

• Excess competitions.
• Attempts to follow a training plan when you are injured or sick.
• Inappropriate increase in training in an attempt to compensate for rest related to injury or disease.
• Inadequate increase in training in an attempt to compensate for poor competition performance.

To these causes that we indicate above we must think that many of us have other stress factors external to training that can "help" us to enter this catabolic effect, How can excess work be, A bad diet, Personal conflicts ... are a stressful combination and with a direct effect on our sports performance.

We should emphasize that the overcoming process is not overnight but there are phases that I describe below in a brief and simple way:

Overload phase, which is a normal phase of the training process by increasing the workload, trying to reach beyond what you are accustomed to achieving an adaptation of your body. It is normal to experience short -term tiredness, But it is normal to feel good in general and with optimal results in competition.

Phase of "wanting to go beyond your possibilities", You keep training with an abnormally high volume, or even increase it for a period of two weeks, no more since your performance goes down sensitively in this phase and more in training than in competitions, where we still maintain our high motivation and "pull" of us.

Phase of Intense onset, It manifests itself with a chronic fatigue that becomes our "shadow". You are tired when you get up, during the day, at work, And it is hard for you to sleep normally at night. Your adrenaline glands are exhausted.

We would like to add here that in many of these cyclical sports the best brands or sports results come from moments of the season where the athlete has had a period of long inactivity (two to six weeks), with a supercompensation at the level of the training load of the whole season and obtaining these records.

Finally, And as a advice that I give to cyclists that I prepare is that if they fall into overcoming the only and logical option is rest, giving minimum an absolute rest of 48 hours after the first symptoms of this process, what, After this break, A brief recovery session must be held. If you don't feel good yet, They must rest 48 more hours and repeat the session, repeating this process until you recover better sensations.

Sometimes the recovery of this process can lead to 5 a 8 weeks of a certain inactivity, Losing a good part of the physical condition.
To prevent these states, the ideal is to have a control of different variables that can indicate this overcoming:

- Basal heart rate: an abrupt elevation of this without any disease or sleep alteration could indicate that we are trained in the fatigue phase.

• Heart rate variability: it is equal or more important than the previous, With this we can control the sympathetic and parasympathetic tone of our body. If we see an excess of sympathetic tone, It could indicate a situation of overcoming (as long as I last a long time of 10 days or more).
• Weight: an abrupt alteration of this or that costs us to recover our ideal weight, We could tell us some metabolic change in our body.
• Dream: Disorders in sleep and not for other causes such as family life, work or other conflicts, It would be a possible indicator of oversight.

Publication graph: Blue line, Variability of FC. High values, greater parasympathetic tone of our body, Low values, more sympathetic activation.
FUCSIA LINE: Heart rate of the athlete, at lower values, greater adaptation to resistance training.

Therefore, Training and control of this is important but at the same time the recovery and the process of recovering workloads during our cycling season! To monitor well!