VTS Plus - The overtraining syndrome - Masterclass Trainingsparameters (2023)

Atleten hebben een grote trainingsbelasting nodig om hun lichaam optimaal voor te bereiden op wedstrijden.  Wanneer echter de belasting en belastbaarheid niet goed op elkaar zijn afgestemd, kunnen er blessures optreden.  In een aantal gevallen kan deze disbalans ook aanleiding geven tot een ‘Non Funtionele Overreaching’ (NFO).  In dat geval zal er na een intensieve trainingsperiode een stagnatie of vermindering van de prestaties ontstaan.  Deze toestand kan weken tot maanden duren, en kan eventueel ook tot het Overtrainingssyndroom (OTS) leiden.  De oorzaak van OTS is multifactorieel, en het is noodzakelijk om alle mogelijke andere redenen voor het verminderd prestatievermogen grondig na te trekken.  De zgn. ‘Toptest’ (trainingsoptimalisatie test) waarbij er 2 maximale inspanningsproeven worden uitgevoerd kan duidelijk het onderscheid maken tussen NFO en OTS.  Een juiste afstelling van belasting en belastbaarheid is dus noodzakelijk om OTS te vermijden.

Docent: Meeusen Romain

Prof Dr em Romain Meeusen (PhD) isformer Vice-Rector Internationalisation and former head of the Human Physiology Research Group at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. His research interest is focused on “Exercise and the Brain in Health & Disease” exploring the influence of neurotransmitters on human performance, training, rehabilitation. Recent work is on Overtraining, Thermoregulation, Neurogenesis, Cognition, Nutrition and the brain in health & disease. He teaches on exercise physiology, training & coaching and sports physiotherapy. Romain published ca 550 articles, abstracts, and book chapters in peer-reviewed national and international journals, 21 books on sport physiotherapy, and gave lectures at more than 1000 national and international conferences (Web of Science (07-2023): 385 papers; H-index: 66; >16.000 citations). He is past President of the Belgian Society of Kinesiology, and the Belgian Federation of Sports Physiotherapy. He is former Board member of the European College of Sport Science ECSS (2000-2013), and of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) (2010-2013). In 2006 he gave the ‘presidents lecture’ at the annual meeting of ACSM. In 2009 he received the Belgian ‘Francqui Chair’ at the Université Libre de Bruxelles on ‘Exercise and the Brain’. In 2017 he received an honorary Fellowship of the society for the promotion of Science in Japan. In 2019 he received the price for ‘Science communication’ of the Royal Flemisch Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts together with the ‘Homo Roboticus team. He was holder of two named lecturing chairs (Lotto Cycling Chair) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (2010-2018), and holds the ‘LIROMS’ research Chair (2021-2025). He has been consultant for the Australian Institute of Sport, where he helped to develop the ‘recovery centre’; for the Lotto Cycling team. In 2023 he was invited by the Brazilian paralympic committee as a scientific advisor and lecturer. He was co-founder of BLITS – the Brussels Lab for exercise performance and Top Sport.