Patrick Patterson to Miss Rest of Season

[greybeard]

The Conditioning that Gillespie is giving the UK Players is starting to pay off.

Didn't seem to help Patterson, now did it.

In fact, the jury is still out as to whether all this uber training and the greater incidence of injury in sport are of one piece.

Run faster, cut sharper, jump higher=greater likelihood of injury, especially injury due to stress, like the stress fracture of an ankle maybe. Sounds like a workable hypothesis; wonder if anyone connected with sports medicine will look into that one. Why do I doubt it?

[Zeb]

Run faster, cut sharper, jump higher=greater likelihood of injury, especially injury due to stress... wonder if anyone connected with sports medicine will look into that one. Why do I doubt it?

What is your point here... are you really wondering if athletes are more likely to suffer athletic injuries the more they engage in athlectic activity? Is that really worth a study?

What's next - a study to see if people get wetter the longer they stand outside in the rain?

[BD80]

What is your point here... are you really wondering if athletes are more likely to suffer athletic injuries the more they engage in athlectic activity? Is that really worth a study?

Why so pejorative? Just because you don't understand?

In gymnastics, it is understood that there are more knee and ankle injuries because athletes are landing with greater force due to greater height and momentum on their skills.

Here, the postulate is that there are more injuries in games if athletes are trained to jump higher or cut more sharply. Basically, are we over conditioning athletes for the competition? The control is that games or minutes played can be factored into the equation, and only the injuries that occur during competition be consideration.

[Ultrarunner]

What is your point here... are you really wondering if athletes are more likely to suffer athletic injuries the more they engage in athlectic activity? Is that really worth a study?

What's next - a study to see if people get wetter the longer they stand outside in the rain?

I would guess that his point was that training programs are getting much more intense. With the ncreased intensity there are a couple of possibilities. First, the athlete, being bigger-faster-stronger, may start to exceed the structural systems - muscles adapt much faster than connective tissues and bone mass.

Which leads to point number two: at what point does training cross the line in either intensity or duration to become overtraining? That might well be worth the study.

And I can give you the answer on the folks too dumb to get out of the rain. They don't get much wetter - but they do go to Carolina.

[Indoor66]

I would guess that his point was that training programs are getting much more intense. With the ncreased intensity there are a couple of possibilities. First, the athlete, being bigger-faster-stronger, may start to exceed the structural systems - muscles adapt much faster than connective tissues and bone mass.

Which leads to point number two: at what point does training cross the line in either intensity or duration to become overtraining? That might well be worth the study.

And I can give you the answer on the folks too dumb to get out of the rain. They don't get much wetter - but they do go to Carolina.

Another consideration might be that the student athletes are, in most cases, not fully mature adults. This could well play into the overtraining issue. (I was at a Holiday Inn Express last night.)