Recommendations for Advancing the Resistance Exercise Overtraining Research

Short-term periods of increased resistance exercise training are often used by athletes to enhance performance, and can induce functional overreaching (FOR), resulting in improved physical capabilities. Non-functional (NFOR) or overtraining syndrome (OTS), occur when demand is applied for prolonged without sufficient recovery. Overtraining (OT) describes the imbalance between recovery, diminished performance. While research into effects OT has gathered attention from sports scientists recent years, current landscape heterogeneous, disparate, underrepresented literature. To date, no studies have determined a reliable physiological psychological marker assist early detection NFOR OTS following OT. The purpose this work highlight conceptual methodological limitations within some literature, propose directions future understanding.