Now a month or two ago I did a blog post on getting the right amount of sleep, and how too little and too much can affect you in your daily life.
This blog post aims to make you aware of how sleep loss can affect your sporting performance, training and competition plans as well as your daily life
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1. If your sleep quality is reduced it could result in an autonomic nervous system imbalance, simulating symptoms of the over training syndrome (decreases performance)
2. You are at 1.7 times greater risk of getting injured when you get less than 8 hours sleep
3. The perceptual and motor learning processes continue throughout sleep after a training session, therefore when you don’t get enough this can’t happen
4. Sleep loss can cause your immune system to dysfunction leaving you open to more illnesses
5. Growth hormone, which is needed for tissue regeneration and as the name states growth is released during your phases of deep sleep. This can’t happen as much when you are on less than 8 hours sleep
So there you have it, even more reason to get a good kip!
REMEMBER- ALL MY SESSIONS ARE HALF PRICE FOR JUNE!
For a deeper look into sleep and performance visit http://www.aspetar.com/journal/viewarticle.aspx?id=178#.VXiSZ0bUcZw