Year: 2012
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Cortisol (C) and testosterone (T) are commonly suggested as markers of overreaching and the unexplained underperformance syndrome (UPS) as taken together they highlight the body's state of stress by indicating the body's catabolic/anabolic balance.Research in this area has focused on the resting concentrations of these hormones and provided inconsistent findings with increases, decreases (of varying magnitudes) and no changes reported when individuals are compared in an overreached state with a normally trained state.Little attention has
Author: John Hough
Language: English
Subfield: Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W850818709