Research summary · Infection and illness
Training load, travel and illness risk
The IOC considers how training and competition demands interact with illness and recovery.
- Publication year
- 2016
- Publication type
- IOC expert consensus statement
- Journal
- British Journal of Sports Medicine
- Population / context
- Multiple sports · International travel
What the publication reports
Monitoring can help identify fatigue and recovery needs while informing changes to training and competition schedules. The statement calls for stronger prospective evidence on load, illness and international travel, including sleep loss and jet lag.
Limits and interpretation
Associations do not establish a safe universal workload threshold or diagnose illness. Load metrics should be interpreted with symptoms, medical history and clinical assessment.
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