Fatigue

Has it ever happened to you that you arrived home after a competition and fell in your bed from exhaustion? It is a natural reaction of your body to a whole day’s excessive energy output from your muscles. Delivering performance in the warm-up before the competition, in the competition itself, keeping you alert in between the rounds — our body got blunted by stress and other factors giving our brain a signal to regenerate and fill up the missing energy. The signs of fatigue are: worsened coordination, slower reactions or making new faults while practicing.

Basic types of fatigue

· Psychological fatigue — marked by reluctance against activity, irritation, bluntness, detachment and other symptoms, which are resolved by resting.

· Acute fatigue — temporary condition; usually reversed within 24 hours. The feeling of fatigue makes the brain to finish training early because it protects the energy sources. The trainee rests after the training, thanks to which he recharges power for the next training. The most common form of rest represents sleeping. All areas of the cerebral cortex are refreshed in sleep. The sports person is able to train on the next day.

Chronic fatigue — this is a long-term condition. If a person does not get enough rest, the symptoms of fatigue are stored in the body until a chronic fatigue develops. We talk about over-training in sports; it occurs when you do not have enough quality rest in the long run. It is a condition when the sports person is not able to deliver performance even when giving it the maximum effort and has to interrupt training.