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Overtraining Athletes: Personal Journeys in Sport seeks to communicate the complex subject of overtraining to help athletes, coaches, parents and sport-science professionals understand the dangers of overtraining and take steps towards prevention. Using history and research, current experts' perspectives and athletes' personal experiences, Overtraining Athletes: Personal Journeys in Sport identifies forces that push athletes to overtrain, by sharing the struggles of those athletes and the sport professionals who seek to help them.

Sean O. Richardson, PhD, completed his doctoral work in sport psychology at Victoria University (Melbourne, Australia) in 2006. His dissertation research focused on the risk factors for athletic overtraining, stress-life balance, and injury.