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Sports Medicine
Published in: Sports Medicine 7/2018

01-07-2018 | Letter to the Editor

Authors’ Reply to Buckner et al.: ‘Comment on: “The General Adaptation Syndrome: A Foundation for the Concept of Periodization”

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

Published in: Sports Medicine | Issue 7/2018

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Buckner et al. [1] have submitted a letter in response to our recent review [2] on the general adaptation syndrome (GAS) and its application to training periodization. As Buckner et al. state, this topic deserves fair and thorough discussion from multiple perspectives, and we thank them for the opportunity to continue such dialogue. Their letter restates many of the points in their original reviews [3, 4], which we addressed in our manuscript. Nevertheless, we will address the main points of their letter to provide further clarity on how the GAS does in fact serve as an appropriate mechanistic model to conceptualize training periodization. …
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Metadata
Title
Authors’ Reply to Buckner et al.: ‘Comment on: “The General Adaptation Syndrome: A Foundation for the Concept of Periodization”
Authors
Aaron J. Cunanan
Brad H. DeWeese
John P. Wagle
Kevin M. Carroll
Robert Sausaman
W. Guy Hornsby III
G. Gregory Haff
N. Travis Triplett
Kyle C. Pierce
Michael H. Stone
Publication date
01-07-2018
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Published in
Sports Medicine / Issue 7/2018
Print ISSN: 0112-1642
Electronic ISSN: 1179-2035
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-018-0884-6

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