In recent years many parents, coaches and athletes have felt pressure for youth participating in sport to be successful in life. Many people argue that sports provide many benefits such as learning how to develop skills such as, cooperation with others, also known as teamwork, discipline skills and of course fitness which is in fact true. However participating fully on one sport all year round and focusing entirely solely on that goal in sport is in fact harmful. Stress, burnout and over-training are all side effects of heavy participation in sport.

In July 2000, the Canadian Institute for the Study of Youth Sports has noticed and

reported that the American Academy of Pediatrics released a statement recommending

that children should be encouraged to participate in a variety of different activities and to

develop a wide range of skills. This article was taken under consideration and it means

that it can have three potential consequences, stress, burn-out and over training.

Regardless of the type of sport or level of competition, there is a great chance that an

athlete will experience some stress during sport participation. This stress may not only

hypothalamic problems may occur in more advanced and serious cases.

Burn out does many bad things to an athlete and their body. The worst thing that

Another cause of training overload is a lead to physiological and psychonomotor

1) Repeated experiences in which one’s efforts are not rewarded (in this case sports)

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