Transcript
KATE GOODGER
Burnout isn't something that happens overnight. It's a gradual process. It's also not something that's down to one single factor. It's a combination of factors that creates an environment around athletes that deplete their personal resources.
In this session you're going to learn about the factors that contribute to burnout or put people at risk from experiencing burnout. These can be divided into three different groups. The first group that you'll learn about will be overload-based factors. So that's typically around things like training volume, recovery rates, and under-recovery that an athlete is experiencing. But it can also be the additions of stresses and strains around things like exams and working life.
The second set of factors are situational factors. Typically these relate to things like the athlete's training environment or competition environment. But they can also relate to the type of support systems that sit around athletes. The third set of factors are the individual factors. So these are much more the personality-based factors for that individual athlete, such as perfectionism, or athletic identity, or motivation.
So as you go through the session, you'll learn about those different factors and how they can put an athlete at risk from burnout. You're also going to learn around the theoretical perspectives of burnout. What that means is the way different researchers have gone about explaining how burnout happens, and also what the burnout experience is like for different individuals. So you'll learn a range of approaches to explain that.
Alongside giving an explanation to burnout, these theoretical approaches are also used to be able to assess and analyse different cases of burnout. So by the end of this session, you'll have learned about the factors that put people at risk from burnout, an explanation of how burnout can develop, and also what that experience is like for different individuals and how to measure it through those assessment approaches.