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[[File:Training Benefit.png|right|thumb|300px|As training load increases there is an initial rapid improvement in fitness. Further increases produce diminishing returns until a plateau optimum training is reached. Further training beyond this point can produce produces less than optimal results until overtrainingis reached when fitness is dramatically diminished.]]
Overtraining is a lack of recovery from training stress. The most serious type of overtraining is [[Overtraining Syndrome]], but there are other categories. Each involves some imbalance between training and recovery, but with different outcomes. All levels of runner can experience any of the types of Overtraining, including [[Overtraining Syndrome]].
* '''[[Overtraining Syndrome]]''' is where the imbalance between training and recovery produces a decrease in performance and negative psychological changes. The negative effects of overreaching do not produce overall performance improvements through [[Supercompensation]]. ''(Main article: [[Overtraining Syndrome]].)''