Professional ultrarunner Cat Bradley, 31, living in Hawaii, has experienced fatigue and burnout in various forms, including just after she won Western States in 2017. RELATED: It’s Easy to Find Work-Life Balance. Without adequate rest, the body begins to break down instead of build stronger. And rest is different for everyone, which makes it exceptionally easy to slip from functional overreaching into damaging non-functional overreaching without realizing it. Non-functional overreaching is exactly the same as very healthy training, except without enough rest. This might be the most important thing to know about being an athlete at any level. And so you start doing damage.” That damage might take a long time to show itself, Abbots said, but it eventually will. “With non-functional overreaching you’re essentially doing the same thing-big workouts, stressing the body-but not giving yourself enough time to recover. “You want to be functionally overreaching as an elite athlete-so that you’re making progress and becoming a better runner, but also giving yourself adequate recovery.”Īnd then there’s non-functional overreaching, which can feel the same to many athletes, but it’s very different. This kind of training is ideal-your body is getting stronger. Then you provide adequate time to recover, and you induce adaptations,” Abbotts said. There’s functional overreaching, which means you stress the body with hard workouts and long runs.
“Essentially, there are two kinds of training. In other words, he’s an expert on how the chemicals in the body work during exercise, and what happens when things get out of whack.
The lab where he now works studies exercise and environment and stressors on physiology. He earned his master’s degree in Metabolism and Exercise Physiology at Colorado State University. Kieran Abbotts is a PhD student at the University of Oregon, studying human physiology.
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