#12 - Sleep and Athletic Performance: Major League Sleep

Sleep Unplugged with Dr. Chris Winter

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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Thanks for listening and sleep well!