Covering a triathlon; things the sports medicine team should consider

Sport and Exercise Medicine: The UK trainee perspective (A BJSM blog series) By  Dr. Natasha Beach The fast-growing sport of triathlon (1) comes in a variety of forms. The most commonly used short distance, known as the super sprint has a 400m swim, 10km cycle and 2.5km run.  Sprint distance (the next level up), refers to a […]

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Overtraining symposium at EFSMA congress – Salzburg; Overtraining insights

Richard Budgett opened the batting for the symposium – his experience as an Olympian, long-time team physician and researcher leads him to look at ‘unexplained underperformance’ as a key issue.  ‘Labelling it as overtraining can make coaches twitchy’ and he explained that the topic has to be dealt with sensitively with coaches.  A good point. […]

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