GENERAL ADAPTATION SYNDROME AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE SPORTS TRAINING

Dr. Natalia Verkhoshansky- “General Adaptation Syndrome and its Application to the Sports Training”

The General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) has been looked upon as the benchmark for understanding the stress response to training, thus determining the “adaptations” that will be seen in the athletes. Dr. Verkhoshansky will give her take on GAS, areas that coaches can observe, and how this theory has been adapted sense its inception.