How Much Is Too Much? Training Load and Injury Risk

We're trying something new with this episode and diving into the research a little bit. We're reviewing the International Olympic Committee's consensus statement on training load and injury risk. They assembled a panel of international experts and pulled together a huge amount of research to come up with some actionable recommendations for anyone who supervises physical training. This discussion is particularly timely as we head into the holidays, which for many people means a few weeks of lower training volume. Leaders might feel the urge to "make up for lost time" by hitting it hard when everyone gets back, but the evidence suggests that this is a perfect storm for injury risk. 

Spoiler alert: the answer is there's probably no such thing as too much. But there is definitely too much too soon.

Here are the links if you want to read it yourself:

Part 1: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/50/17/1030

Part 2: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/50/17/1043