Load Management Principles

Load management means matching the demands placed on an athlete to what their body can currently tolerate: enough to drive adaptation, but not so much or so suddenly that injury risk rises.

Many overuse injuries, from bone stress injuries to tendinopathies, follow a training error, most often doing too much too soon. Load is one of the most modifiable influences on both performance and injury, and the same principles run through prevention, rehabilitation and return to sport.