Carl Foster - Perspectives on Correct Approaches to Conditioning Athletes

Perspectives on Correct Approaches to Conditioning Athletes reviews the training mistakes that can keep athletes from achieving their goals and what coaches can do to avoid them. The film places particular emphasis on the factors involved in the overtraining syndrome and what can be done to treat it. The film also explains why sometimes training can be more important to an athlete than competition itself. 

Among the topics covered: 

• Training athletes
• The single biggest mistake coaches make
• Characteristics of overtraining syndrome
• How should overtraining be treated
• What do we know for sure?

Produced in cooperation with the American College of Sports Medicine.