Overtraining and Overtraining Syndrome

I've created a new section on my wiki for Overtraining and Overtraining syndrome. I believe that there is insight into effective training to be found from understanding Overtraining, as well as the obvious value in preventing Overtraining problems. Over the last few months of studying the research on Overtraining I've accumulated a lot of information, so I’ve added over a dozen new pages to make things easier to digest. A good starting point is either http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Overtraining or http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Overtraining_Syndrome and other major pages include:

http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Training_Monotony

http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Mood_State

http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Overuse

http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Too_Much_Too_Soon

http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Overload

http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Causes_of_Overtraining_Syndrome

http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Recovering_from_Overtraining_Syndrome

http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Overtraining_Syndrome_Subtypes

http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Mechanisms_of_Overtraining_Syndrome

Pre-taping your feet

A friend asked me recently about taping your feet before an ultramarathon (pre-taping), so I've updated my page on taping to give some more specific advice in this area. http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Taping

Oops - fellrnr.com outage!

The server ran out of disk space yesterday and had to be restarted. I have my dropbox account on the server for backups and file sharing (it’s great for both purposes and I don’t know how I survived without it). However, the server had only been allocated 4 Gb of space and dropbox replicates 2Gb free, so I blew things up. Lesson learned! BTW, if you don’t use dropbox yet, please use this referral link http://db.tt/7mzrgCR when you sign up and we both get an extra 250Mb.

Training Monotony

Monotony is considered a sign of an ineffective training program. Monotonous training has a similar level of stress each day. High levels of monotony tend to increase fatigue, have a higher risk of overtraining, and produce less benefit than low monotony routines. This new article is part of my work on Overtraining and introduces the concept of Monotony, how it can be calculated and provides a simple online form for evaluating training. I am building the Monotony calculator into my SportTrack plugin, which should be released soon (beta available on request). http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Training_Monotony

TRIMP ('TRaining IMPulse')

As part of my research into overtraining, I've been looking at ways of measuring the impact of training. I've created an article on TRIMP ('TRaining IMPulse') and the various ways it can be calculated. http://fellrnr.com/wiki/TRIMP

Free software for altitude training released

I've release the software I use for altitude training. I use this software with a pulse oximeter and the AltoLab altitude training system. I’m not sure how many people will find this useful, so the documentation is embryonic. http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Hypoxic_Timer and details of the supported pulse oximeters at http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Pulse_Oximeter
More background at http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Intermittent_Hypoxic_Exposure and http://fellrnr.com/wiki/AltoLab
PS, I've also added a number of pages around heart rate, such as http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Maximum_Heart_Rate which I will continue to extend and expand over time.

Mental fortitude

I had a question about my wiki entry on 'Top 10 marathon racing mistakes' about mental fortitude and if it could be actively developed. I've spent some time thinking about this and I believe that you can train your fortitude in much the same way you can speed or endurance. I've written this up as http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Mental_fortitude and I'm interested in any feedback you might have. (If you like the article, please hit the '+1' button, as I use that to track what articles people find useful.)