Sleep is fundamental to an athlete’s performance - that's clear. Over the past fifteen years the understanding that sleep is not just dead time where athletes switch off but instead sleep is the key to peaking performances, giving athletes the competitive edge.
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Kokoon in the NFL
San Francisco 49ers adopt Kokoon Headphones for Peak Performance
On the lead up to the Super Bowl, when sleep is paramount but often at its most challenging, we teamed up with the San Francisco 49ers. We supplied the team with our Philips Sleep Headphones to aid their rest and recovery for the game of their lives.
“Sleep we often think of as a cost in our lives… sleep should be seen as one of the very best investments that any athlete or team can promote”
-Dr Michael Grander
When sleep deprived endurance performance is inhibited, due to decreased pre-exercise muscle glycogen stores and heightened levels of perceived exertion
When we don’t sleep our muscles can’t fully restock their energy stores (in the form of muscle glycogen). A recent study found that when restricted to a 30-hour sleep deprivation, the inability of the human body to fully recover muscle glycogen was seen in athletes
Male and female swimmers who extended their sleep to 10 hours also saw many performance improvements.
Reaction times off diving blocks were faster, turn times were improved, and kick strokes increased. Times swimming a 15-meter sprint also improved. Additionally, these athletes experienced improved mood and decreased daytime sleepiness and fatigue.
Precision/accuracy performance is found to have a strong positive correlation with sleep duration, especially in sports like tennis, golf and darts. Impaired accuracy and reaction time is associated with sleep deprivation and can be improved through sleep extension.
In a study on basketball players, where sleep durations were increased, with 10 hours being the goal over a 7 week period, longer sleep was correlated with an increased shooting accuracy of 9.2%
A Stanford study of men’s basketball players who extended their sleep to 10 hours a night found several positive outcomes.
The players ran faster in both half-court and full-court sprints. Their shooting improved by at least 9% for both free throws and three-point shots. The athletes also reported improved physical and mental well-being
Exercise after 8pm
One survey found that the majority of people who exercise at 8pm, or later fall asleep quickly, experience an adequate amount of deep sleep, and wake up feeling well rested
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Sleep and Accuracy
After sleep deprivation, male and female tennis players had decreased serve accuracy of up to 53% when compared to performance after normal sleep.
Injury Risk
Soldiers who slept for 4 or less hours a night were 2.35x more likely to experience musculoskeletal injury compared to those who slept 8 hours and more
