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ReviewSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2018

The General Adaptation Syndrome: A Foundation for the Concept of Periodization.

Aaron J Cunanan, Brad H DeWeese, John P Wagle, Kevin M Carroll, Robert Sausaman, W Guy Hornsby, G Gregory Haff, N Travis Triplett, Kyle C Pierce, Michael H Stone

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Review in Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

69 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Aaron J CunananDepartment of Sport, Exercise, Recreation, and Kinesiology, Center of Excellence for Sport Science and Coach Education, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, 37614, USA. aaron.cunanan@gmail.com.
Brad H DeWeeseDepartment of Sport, Exercise, Recreation, and Kinesiology, Center of Excellence for Sport Science and Coach Education, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, 37614, USA.
John P WagleDepartment of Sport, Exercise, Recreation, and Kinesiology, Center of Excellence for Sport Science and Coach Education, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, 37614, USA.
Kevin M CarrollDepartment of Sport, Exercise, Recreation, and Kinesiology, Center of Excellence for Sport Science and Coach Education, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, 37614, USA.
Robert SausamanDepartment of Sport, Exercise, Recreation, and Kinesiology, Center of Excellence for Sport Science and Coach Education, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, 37614, USA.
W Guy HornsbyCollege of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 26505, USA.
G Gregory HaffCentre for Exercise and Sport Sciences Research, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA, 6027, Australia.
N Travis TriplettDepartment of Health and Exercise Science, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, 28607, USA.
Kyle C PierceDepartment of Kinesiology and Health Science, Louisiana State University Shreveport, Shreveport, LA, 71115, USA.
Michael H StoneDepartment of Sport, Exercise, Recreation, and Kinesiology, Center of Excellence for Sport Science and Coach Education, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, 37614, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent reviews have attempted to refute the efficacy of applying Selye's general adaptation syndrome (GAS) as a conceptual framework for the training process. Furthermore, the criticisms involved are regularly used as the basis for arguments against the periodization of training. However, these perspectives fail to consider the entirety of Selye's work, the evolution of his model, and the broad applications he proposed. While it is reasonable to critically evaluate any paradigm, critics of the GAS have yet to dismantle the link between stress and adaptation. Disturbance to the state of an organism is the driving force for biological adaptation, which is the central thesis of the GAS model and the primary basis for its application to the athlete's training process. Despite its imprecisions, the GAS has proven to be an instructive framework for understanding the mechanistic process of providing a training stimulus to induce specific adaptations that result in functional enhancements. Pioneers of modern periodization have used the GAS as a framework for the management of stress and fatigue to direct adaptation during sports training. Updates to the periodization concept have retained its founding constructs while explicitly calling for scientifically based, evidence-driven practice suited to the individual. Thus, the purpose of this review is to provide greater clarity on how the GAS serves as an appropriate mechanistic model to conceptualize the periodization of training.

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Adaptation, PhysiologicalGeneral Adaptation SyndromePeriodicityStress, PhysiologicalHumansSports

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PMID29307100

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