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Why We May Be Measuring Burnout All Wrong

By Kate Morgan — 2021

The pandemic has pushed many to the brink. But although we're exhausted and overwhelmed, some experts say we're not actually as burned out as we may think.

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The Flow (the Zone)— For Writers? What Is It? How Do I Get Into It?

The concept of the flow, or being in the zone for an artist, is very much like the state an athlete achieves (or strives to achieve) for peak performance. It’s that place beyond all the effort, where time is meaningless and everything just flows.

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Elle Fredine
2018
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How to Avoid Burnout in Youth Sports

A couple of months of the year, encourage them to do something else. If they play soccer, they could switch off to tennis.

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Jane E. Brody
2018
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Burnout in Sport and Performance

Athlete burnout is a cognitive-affective syndrome characterized by perceptions of emotional and physical exhaustion, reduced accomplishment, and devaluation of sport.

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Robert C. Eklund, J.D. Defreese
2017
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Burnout Can Happen to Any Athlete. Here’s How Two of the Best Got Over It

And it can affect anyone who specializes in one activity—even kids on sports teams.

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Mike Plunkett
2016
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How to Prevent Athlete Burnout

Burnout is hard to define. For this article, I’m referring to the point in time where it’s a good for an athlete to take a break from conventional training; the specific time in a career or training phase where they need some time away.

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Carl Valle
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How Perfectionism Leads to Athlete Burnout

Setting high goals is great, but how you deal with falling short determines how long you’re willing to keep chasing them.

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Alex Hutchinson
2021
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Understanding Student-Athlete Burnout

What leads to burnout is too much training stress coupled with too little recovery. Training stress can come from a variety of sources on and off the field, such as physical, travel, time, academic or social demands.

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Keith A. Kaufman
2015
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When More Isn’t Better: Dealing with Burnout in Competitive Sports

Sport is a place for girls to learn social interaction, hard work, the triumphs of success and coping skills when faced with failure. However, when recreational athletics turn to intense competitive sports, burnout is too often the result.

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Women's Sports Foundation
2014
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