ABSTRACT
Within the last decade, research has spotlighted various new approaches to precisely monitor recovery and stress with the intention of creating visible data and individual strategies for high-performance athletes and staff and to establish strategies to recover more efficiently. This chapter highlights these new findings to sharpen the knowledge on why a recovery-stress balance is important, give readers an insight on how to measure it in several context situations, and educate them on how to possibly react to instabilities within the applied sport setting. Physiological and psychological stress and recovery can be monitored during the training process to prevent overtraining; however, feedback loops of coaches and athletes need to be established on a regular basis to evaluate the scores. The most frequent causes of overtraining cited by athletes are too much stress and pressure, too much practice and physical training, physical exhaustion and all-over soreness, boredom because of too much repetition, and poor rest or lack of proper sleep.
