Samuele Marcora

Aug 1, 2024 | adventuremotorcycle.com | Samuele Marcora

We admire Dakar racers riding their motorbikes for 8,500 km over 14 stages. Of these stages, 4,100 km consisted of hard off-road riding whilst navigating through a variety of terrains and environments. This prolonged physical and mental exertion has significant effects on human performance known as “fatigue.” Every adventure bike rider is well aware of the feelings of tiredness and lack of energy associated with hard and long rides.

Jun 6, 2024 | cyclingweekly.com | Samuele Marcora

Traditionally overtraining has been defined as a prolonged impairment in an athlete’s performance lasting for several months despite reducing the workload. As the name suggests, the chronic reduction in performance is due to excessive training without enough recovery. However, more accurately, it is the state of chronic fatigue, and most of the time it’s chronic mental fatigue.