best practice handbook - rowing australia（澳大利亚最佳实践手册u2014u2014划船）.pdf

Best Practice Handbook Prescription of training load in relation to loading and unloading phases of training Executive Summary, Version 1, 4 May 2015 Background: Performance enhancement and athlete wellbeing is the collective responsibility of the coach and all support staff (including but not limited to Physiology, Medicine, Strength and Conditioning, Physiotherapy, Nutrition, Psychology). Although driven by the coach and athlete, performance enhancement and athlete wellbeing should not be ‘owned’ by any single entity or discipline. Systematic training prepares the athlete for the demands of the sport such that both performance and safety are 1 enhanced. It is acknowledged that moderate to high training loads improve performance and are protective against 2 injury. The skill in planning high performance training programs is in balancing the risks and benefits associated with ensuring an adequate training stimulus without accumulating excessive training stress. Recent evidence has highlighted a link between match availability rates of players and performance in team sports.3, 4 A similar relationship 5 between injury burden and performance in individual sports has been observed from analysis of internal data with 6 athletes reporting injuries in the month prior to World Championships at risk of sustaining an in-championship injury. Importantly, if substantial amounts of training are modified, individual athletes are significa