*⃣ 50-78% of athletes report sleep complaints Sleep deprivation impairs: ⭐️Performance (esp. fine motor skills) ⭐️Cognition ⭐️Contributes to overtraining & prolonged performance decrements >150 min/wk of exercise helps ✅Insomnia ✅Sleep Efficiency ✅Anxiety/Depression sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

Lower sleep quality associated with 36% increase in running-related injuries among 339 (16.2% females, age: 43.4 ± 10.2, 92.9% competing regularly) runners from 24 countries. I'd love to see this repeated with precision sleep & injury testing methodologies (rather than questionnaires), but informative nonetheless. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4123…