This volume summarizes the proceedings of the Reisensburg workshop which took place at Reisensburg Castle in November 1997." The castle is built on the site of an - cient Roman compound and situated in the south of Germany at the Danube river. Sci- tists from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, South Africa, Switzerland, and the United States participated in the workshop. Like the 1996 workshop, the proceedings of which will be published in Medicine and Science in Sports and Ex- cise in 1998, the 1997 workshop also focused on the topic of overtraining in its...

The 46 talks and papers explore a condition by which a person is unable to sustain a particular work rate sufficiently to complete a given task successfully; at its extremes it limits an elite athlete from even greater performance, and keeps an impaired person from maintaining even a mild domestic r