On-field training

Abstract

Theory of Training An athlete’s performance is the result of accumulated training and subsequent recovery sessions. Training is designed to overload the body, mainly through the cardiovascular and muscular system, which then stresses the body. Monitoring an athlete’s stress response to an individual training session is important for checking how an athlete is adapting. But an athlete’s stress response to training can be due to more than just the training programme itself. There are various factors that can influence an athlete’s stress response to training, including personality, genetics, training history, sleep quality and sleep duration, academic pressure, family pressures, and more (Mellalieu, Neil, Hanton, & Fletcher, 2009). To understand the theory of training, it is paramount to understand the concept of stress.