Gabbett Load BJSM

Training load related injuries are seen as ‘preventable’ injuries in the health care world.

High intensity training intensity + High volume = increased performance

This is excellent right? Well……

There is a need to balance the two. This because training at too high an intensity and or higher volume can lead to injury.

*Added to this it has also been found that too little training can also increase injury rate.

A 10% or more increase in training load can increase the injury risk from between 21% and 40% if however you increase a training load between 5 and 10% the injury rick lessens to 10% or less. This means there is a real need for coaches to monitor athletes loads

High chronic work loads have been found to decrease the injury risk.

The double edged sword of all this is that across a wide range of sports, well-developed physical qualities are associated with a reduced risk of injury.

For athletes to develop these physical capacities that provide a protective defence against injury, they must be prepared to train hard. Thus the importance of balancing training intensity!

Gabbett, T. J. (2016). The training-injury prevention paradox: should athletes be training smarter and harder?. British journal of sports medicine, bjsports-2015.

British Journal of Sports Medicine

A thanks goes to YLM sports science for the conclusion diagram