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Learning from sport burnout and overtraining
Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

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This free course was written by Ben Oakley. It was first published in July 2019.

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Activity 2: Burnout in professional sport Jonathan Trott: Burnout Sky Sports 1; reviewed by Darren Britton

Activity 6: Gould, D., Udry, E., Tuffey, S., & Loehr, J. (1997). Burnout in competitive junior tennis players: III. Individual differences in the burnout experience. The sport psychologist, 11(3), 257-276.

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Video 1: The British Psychological Society; Professor D R Gould

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