Comparison between different amounts of physical exercise in academic performance and development of overtraining signs

  The objective of this study was to verify if the academic performance is correlated with the state of overtraining, besides comparing the signs of overtraining among practitioners of different amounts of exercise. We tested the hypothesis of impairment in academic performance due to overt...

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Autores: Guimarães, Thiago, Costa, Daniel, Alonso, Marcella, Rubini, Ercole, Coelho, Wagner
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:Brasil
Institución:Instituto Brasileiro de Ensino e Pesquisa em Fisiologia do Exercício (IBPEFEX)
Repositorio:Revista Brasileira de Prescrição e Fisiologia do Exercício
Idioma:portugués
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Acceso en línea:https://www.rbpfex.com.br/index.php/rbpfex/article/view/1447
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Palabra clave:Cognition
Overtraining
Burnout
Cognición
Sobreentrenamiento
Agotamiento
Cognizione
Sovrallenamento
Bruciato
Cognição
Supertreinamento
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Sumario:  The objective of this study was to verify if the academic performance is correlated with the state of overtraining, besides comparing the signs of overtraining among practitioners of different amounts of exercise. We tested the hypothesis of impairment in academic performance due to overtraining and a greater presence of overtraining symptoms in physically overactive individuals. The sample consisted of 186 graduate students from different health courses (age: 25±6.65 years, weigth: 68±14.26 kg, height: 1.67±0.09 m). We used an anamnesis to verify the status of physical activity and to divide the sample into three groups: sedentary or insufficiently active (n = 75), moderately active (n = 69) and overactive (n = 41). In addition, we applied the Overtraining Clinical Symptoms Questionnaire, and the academic achievement was obtained through the results of curricular evaluation in the human physiology discipline. The results showed no statistical difference in the correlation between overtraining scores and academic performance (rs=-0.11, p=0.377). The ANOVA indicated a statistical difference in the overtraining scores between sedentary (34.40 ± 13.35) and moderately active (25.86 ± 13.23) (p<0.01), and between sedentary and overactive (20.00 ± 13,36) (p<0.001). We conclude that academic performance was not affected by the overtraining state, however, sedentary or insufficiently active people may be affected by characteristic symptoms of overtraining. There are issues related to the development of overtraining syndrome that are not justified only by the frequency, intensity, duration, and interval of physical exercise sessions.