ASSOCIATION BETWEEN PERFORMANCE AND OVERTRAINING AMONG UNIVERSITY LEVEL ATHLETES IN LAHORE

Dr. Sheher Bano, Dr.Rubab Naqvi, AQIB LIAQAT, M.Mujtaba Masood, Esha Tahir, Hira Nawaz, Hafiza Natasha Hirra

ABSTRACT

Back Ground : Over training appear when an athlete try to overcome their body's ability to recover from exercise. Overtraining was a trendy term used to explain each procedure of training excessively and the fatigue states.

Objective: Of this study was to examine the effect of overtraining on overall performance of an athlete and to find out association between performance and overtraining.

Methods : It was a cross- sectional study. This study ran from April 2022 to September 2022 .Sample size 129 athletes was taken from both genders aged between 18 -25 years, calculated through Cochrane formula by using purposive sampling technique. Data collection was done by use of an abbreviated Profile of mode state (POMS) and Rest and Recovery (REST) Questionnaire that comprises of 40 and 19 items respectively. Collected data was analyzed by using chi-square test through SPSS tool version 26 .

Results : It was concluded that some factors like anger(48.1%) stress(34.5%), depression(24.8%) and fatigue(24%) produced by overtraining forms an inverse relationship between overtraining and performance from which it was concluded that there was significant association between overtraining and performance . P value obtained was 0.01.

Conclusion: When training exceed with the planned maximum level then there are lot of negative effect of it, and researcher find out that major negative effect of overtraining is the low performance.

Keywords: Performance, Overtraining, Athlete and Fatigue.