How to Enhance Performance With Better Sleep

2024/7/10

Perform with Dr. Andy Galpin

Chapters

Sleep optimization is crucial for maximizing athletic performance, impacting speed, accuracy, reaction time, and injury recovery. Athletes often experience suboptimal sleep due to demanding schedules and physiological factors, highlighting the need for prioritizing sleep.

Sleep optimization enhances speed, accuracy, reaction time, and competition performance.
Sleep aids in injury recovery.
Athletes often suffer from chronic suboptimal sleep.
Approach sleep with the same rigor and specificity as nutrition and training.

Shownotes Transcript

In this episode, I explain how sleep optimization produces a competitive advantage and the many tools available for improving sleep to maximize athletic performance. I explain how sufficient, high-quality sleep enhances speed, accuracy, reaction time, and competition performance and aids in injury recovery. I also describe why most athletes suffer from chronic suboptimal sleep, the athlete’s sleep paradox, the biochemical reason athletes need more sleep, and the most common sleep disorders affecting athletes.

I explain the importance of optimizing three areas for sleep: duration, quality, and timing. I also discuss how to use sleep extension to improve performance and how to use sleep banking and/or adjust sleep timing during competition training or travel.

I discuss the three I’s (investigate, interpret, intervene) for improving sleep and describe sleep solutions, ranging from free protocols and low-cost wearables to high-precision clinical sleep testing.

Listeners will understand the importance of sleep for performance and how to create a precise, effective sleep program tailored to individual needs and goals for yourself or the athletes you coach.

Access the full show notes for this episode at performpodcast.com).