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#12 - Sleep and Athletic Performance: Major League Sleep

Sep 12, 202237 min
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Episode description

The intersection of sleep and athletic performance, relatively speaking, is a new frontier. In the last two decades, the interest in how sleep optimization can improve achievement within sports has exploded. In this episode I will discuss:

  • the history of how sleep has been looked at in sports and the earliest observations on the subject
  • how I became interested and eventually involved with research in sleep and sport
  • the story behind my initial studies with Major League Baseball and travel
  • the topic of circadian advantage and how we measured it over ten years of Major League Baseball games
  • how chronotype seems to impact the performance timing of elite athletes
  • the influence of sleepiness on athletic performance, success in a sport, and potentially longevity as an athlete
  • other influential research and researchers in the field
  • what it all means for not only professional sports organizations, but also the average athlete

Produced by: Maeve Winter

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