Injury is usually a problem for professional athletes in sport and every athlete and team will be taking a look at methods to avoid injuries. There are actually basically two types of injury which may occur in sport. The first is the accident that is more difficult to avoid and relies on techniques like rule modifications to guard athletes and the use of protective equipment. Another form of injury is the one linked to the training stresses and is typically an excessive use kind of injury. To prevent most of these injuries, then there needs to be a careful management of simply how much work or training that the athlete does. It is important that training loads are increased slowly but surely so the athlete's tissues has time to adapt to the stresses that are. Should there be way too much load, then an overuse injury is a lot more likely to come about.

There has been designed a range of keeping track of tools in which are employed to keep a check up on the athlete's training to make sure they have sufficient rests and down time to ensure that the tissues may adapt to those loads. A specific issue is when the athlete has a spike or quick increase in the training load in comparison to the background exercise load. A formula, known as the acute:chronic workload ratio was designed with the acute workload being exactly what the athlete has done in the last week and the chronic workload being what they've carried out the previous thirty day period. When there is a jump in this ratio, then they are thought to be in danger of injury. Even though this can seem fairly clear-cut, there is definitely important controversy around the research that support this concept. A recent edition of PodChatLive explained these issues with Franco Impellizzeri on these concerns using the ratio and ways in which it can be worked ahead into the longer term.