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damn you reply quick. In the notes that will come with my program builder I talk about sleep and recovery quite a lot. For those who train but negelct making the effort to get regular quality sleep - they are just needlessly short circuiting their gains. I did an experiment with some of the kids I work with who play Aussie Rules where for 2 weeks they agreed to go to bed at a time that allowed them to be in bed for at least 8.5 hours per night (1/2 hour to drift off etc). Their results in those two weeks were nothing short of amazing. Their quality of training was great, their strength went up on just about everything, they just improved stupidly. Then I think the latest version of Grand Theft Auto came out and they decided that the early nights had to stop. There is just no convincing some people.
JW
Hi Andrew
Nice article and Interesting stuff. For a competition or one off event this is great. However on a longer term how do you think chronic lack of quality sleep is going to impact an athletes performance? It is clearly going to have a negative effect.
If you continually don't get enough sleep your performance/training improvements has to suffer. You won't recover as well, you won't be as energetic in your workouts, less motivation to workout in the first place, you will lack focus and intensity on your lifts/sprints/jumps etc. All this adds up to less overall gains.
In the short term though such as one night - of less than perfect sleep - I am with you. Less of a problem. Long term if I had an athlete who regularly complained of lack of sleep I would seriously sort out why they aren't sleeping so well as a matter of priority.
Cheers
Jack
What, the geeky-ass white boy can rap? Who knew?
You let Squidward have it over at TVS though, Andrew.

sounds good looking forward to a vid and a 39 inch running jump

My fav from back in the day, Cyril Rafaelli. Famous for his drops. Parkour took him to Hollywood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPpT1RO9PTc