![]() This review is purposed to summarize the recent research published within the 5 past years that centers specifically on sleep and performance in professional athletes. ![]() Although still relatively understudied, there has been a notable uptick over the recent years in empirical research related to sleep in professional athletes. ![]() Professional athletes face unique demands, such as frequent travel resulting in circadian disruption and misalignment, strenuous training regimens, and significant anxiety and stress related to competitive performance, that heighten the risk for poor sleep health. Over the recent decade, the awareness of sleep’s import on an athlete’s training, recovery, performance, and wellness has penetrated just about every professional sport domain. This has led to increased empirical attention towards the sleep health of athletes, which largely began with the foundational work of Mah and colleagues (2011) that showed the beneficial effects of improved sleep health on the athletic performance of collegiate basketball players. Furthermore, sleep has been shown to impact all aspects of athletic performance, from training to actual performance to recovery. Sleep health shares an intimate, bidirectional relationship with mental health and plays a notable role in one’s social, occupational, and academic functionality. Sleep is an essential human behavior that plays a key role in proper biopsychosocial development as well as short- and long-term biological, physical, psychological, and cognitive health.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |