Monitoring the Effects of Brain and Physical Endurance Training on Overreaching Indices in Active Individuals

The increasing process of overreaching in the development or decline of the athlete's performance acts as a moving that stops in the axis timely will improve the athlete's performance and achieve the goal. Therefore, the aim of the present study was investigated the effects of concurrent exercise physical and brain endurance on overreaching factors in active people.

Subjects included 20 active male and female physical education students (Mean ±SD; age: 22.3 ± 4.4 years, height: 177.56 ± 6.12 cm, BMI: 22± 4.5 kg/m2). Participants were divided into two groups of concurrent endurance and brain training (BET) and endurance training (ET), according to the results of the maximum oxygen consumption test. Physical exercise training was performed on cycle ergometer and brain training using computer with monitor on front of subjects during cycling. To analyze the results of the tests, Mix ANOVA. Significance level (P≤0.05) was considered.

The results showed that the maximum oxygen consumption after the training period, regardless of the type of activity, increased significantly (P = 0.00). Monitoring resting heart rate. POMS questionnaire indicators and resting cortisol levels did not show a significant increase indicating non-functional overreaching, respectively (P≤0/51). The rating of perceived exertion index was higher in the group that did physical endurance activity along with brain endurance training (P= 0/5).

These findings showed despite the increase stimulant to concurrent physical and brain endurance training did not cause non-functional overreaching and overtraining, but also based on the results of performance improvement, it can be said that the subject achieved functional overreaching and super compensation during the training period, which was able to experience progress.