*s2/e40 Understanding Overtraining Syndrome with Jill Colangelo, ALM (@jillcolangelopsych)
The Running Explained Podcast
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4.6 • 534 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2022
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
What is Overtraining Syndrome? Psychologist and researcher Jill Colangelo, ALM (@jillcolangelopsych) joins the show this week to talk about this extremely important issue that endurance runners are at risk of when training stress and recovery are out of balance, dangerously so. Learn about Overtraining Syndrome, including...
- What is Overtraining Syndrome (OTS)? What are some of the signs and symptoms?
- The recovery timeline for OTS
- Risk factors for OTS
- Is exercise addiction real?
- What happens when we misuse exercise
- "No, you are not the exception"
- OTS versus Overreaching
- Why can some people handle such a high training volume while others cannot?
- The relationship between mental health and training volume by hours per week
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Jill Colangelo is a writer and researcher who studies the relationship between mental health and ultra-endurance sport. She is actively involved with new research in this area with the University of Bern and writing mental health-focused articles at Triathlete Magazine.
www.jillcolangelo.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Running Explain podcast. I'm Elizabeth, a marathoner, running coach, and answer seeker. |
| 0:06.9 | When I became a new runner at the age of 29, I had so many questions, but it felt like I was on my own to figure all of the answers. |
| 0:15.1 | So now I'm here to answer all your running questions to help make you a better, smarter, faster, runner. There's no question |
| 0:22.9 | too simple and no topic too complex. So let's get started. My guest this week is Jill Colangelo, |
| 0:28.8 | former triathlete and ultra runner who now specializes in researching the delicate relationship |
| 0:34.2 | between mental health and ultra endurance sports, specifically the focus on |
| 0:38.5 | overtraining syndrome. So overtraining tends to get kind of tossed around like, ooh, might be |
| 0:44.1 | overtrained or am I overtrained or, you know, OTS and LEA and Red S and all these acronyms about |
| 0:52.0 | what actually turns out to be a very serious condition. |
| 0:55.2 | But the problem with overtraining syndrome is that it's not as benign as it sounds. |
| 1:00.9 | It's not, well, there's many problems with overtraining syndrome, but that's just one of them. |
| 1:03.9 | And this is something that we're going to talk about today with Jill. |
| 1:06.5 | This is her area of expertise. |
| 1:09.0 | Over training syndrome. |
| 1:10.6 | What is it? What is it not? What-training syndrome. What is it? |
| 1:11.9 | What is it not? |
| 1:13.3 | What does it feel like? |
| 1:14.6 | Who is susceptible? |
| 1:15.8 | What are the risk factors? |
| 1:17.1 | How do you recover? |
| 1:18.5 | And the relationship between overtraining syndrome. |
| 1:20.7 | And also generally some really interesting research that she has found about the relationship |
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