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JOURNAL OF SPORTS SCIENCES
卷 39, 期 18, 页码 2080-2086出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2021.1918362
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Overtraining; overreaching; salivary cortisol; salivary testosterone; endurance training
Athletes often push themselves to their limits to enhance performance, but overtraining can be detrimental. This study showed that in a healthy state, the 55/80 training regimen reliably increased salivary cortisol and testosterone levels, providing insights into hormonal responses to intense exercise.
Athletes physically overload to improve performance. Unbalanced stress/recovery may induce overtraining, which is difficult to diagnosis as no diagnostic marker exists. Hormonal responses to a 55/80 cycle (30-min of alternating blocks of 1-min at 55% and 4-min at 80% maximum work rate) may highlight early-stage overtraining (overreaching), as blunted cortisol and testosterone responses to 55/80 follows intensified training. However, the reliability of hormonal responses to 55/80 when not overreached is unknown. Therefore, reported blunted hormonal responses could be due to inconsistent cortisol and testosterone responses to 55/80. Participants (n = 23) completed three 55/80 bouts, >7 days apart, with no exercise 24 h pre-trials. Pre-exercise urine osmolality and stress questionnaire responses were measured. Pre, post, and 30-min post-exercise saliva samples were collected for cortisol and testosterone assessment. Salivary cortisol and testosterone responses, osmolality and well-being were not different between trials. Salivary cortisol and testosterone elevated from pre- to post-exercise [by 4.2 nmol(.)L(-1) (cortisol) and 307 pmol(.)L(-1) (testosterone)], and 30 min post-exercise [by 160 pmol(.)L(-1) (testosterone) only]. Intraclass correlation coefficients for pre to peak post-exercise cortisol (0.89; good) and testosterone (0.53; moderate) were calculated. This demonstrates that 55/80 induces reliable elevations of salivary cortisol and testosterone when in a healthy state.
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