Table 4. Individual monitoring: a suggested battery of tests to detect impending overtraining.
| · Performance |
| · Mood state questionnaires |
| · Diary of responses to training (fatigue, muscle soreness) and symptoms of illness |
| · Sleeping heart rate |
| · Blood lactate and plasma cortisol response to high intensity or incremental exercise |
| · Plasma creatine kinase activity |
| · Cortisol:Testosterone ratio |
| · Nocturnal urinary noradrenaline and adrenaline secretion |
| · Routine haematology (blood haemoglobin, serum ferritin, leukocyte counts) |
| · T-lymphocyte CD4+/CD45RO+ expression |
| · Experience of coach and athlete |