Sleep and the athlete with Dr Sam Pullinger

This is an era of chronic sleep deprivation, triggered largely by our addiction to the screens of our personal devices. But how do athletes deal with sleep deprivation? What's the relationship with sleep and athletic performance? Why should athletes carry their own pillows and switch off their phones at night? Do short naps have any benefits when it comes to performance? And why is it that our strength and power outputs are better in the evening? Is training for elite athletes structured according to the time of day? All those answers and more with Dr Pullinger, the Head of Sports Science at the Inspire Institute of Sports in Bellary, where India's finest athletes live and train.

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Sleep and the athlete with Dr Sam Pullinger is an episode from Secrets of Sports Science by HT Smartcast.

This episode is 36:26 long.

This episode was published on Jul 14, 2022.

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