title: Training on a knife's edge: how to balance triathlon training to prevent overuse injuries.
abstract: The sport of triathlon offers athletes the chance to build and/or maintain cardiovascular fitness across 3 endurance disciplines. Swimming, biking, and running each have a host of overuse injuries that can occur as a result of overtraining. High running mileage, a history of previous injury, inadequate warm up or cool down, and an increase in the years of triathlon experience are a few of the factors that have been linked to triathlon overuse injuries. Early identification of overtraining symptoms and a corresponding reallocation of balance between each discipline, perhaps with an emphasis on increasing swimming, may help prevent many overuse injuries.
authors.affiliation: US Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO, USA.
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bales
authors.forename: Karrn
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bales
mesh_terms: D001642:Bicycling / Q000293:injuries*; D012090:Cumulative Trauma Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D010806:Physical Education and Training; D012420:Running / Q000293:injuries*; D013550:Swimming / Q000293:injuries*