(1.College of Physical Education,Nanjing Normal University,Nanjing 210097,China;2.College of Physical Education and Health,East China Normal University,Shanghai 00062,China) Abstract: The fatigue and psychological exhaustion in sports is a complicated stress reacting process. The research on fatigue in sports has experienced the development from the area of physiology to the areas of physiology, psychology and sociology. The main causes for the occurrence of fatigue in sports are such factors as environment, behavior and motive. In this article, the authors described several theories such as recognition-affection mode and training pressure reaction mode, discussed the relation between sports and psychological exhaustion, and set forth the orientation for researches henceforward. Key words: sports; fatigue; psychological exhaustion |