How Sleep Can Make You A Better Runner - Sleep is part of training
How Sleep Can Make You A Better Runner 1. Sleep releases growth hormones 2. Sleep allows your heart to rest 3. Sleep can strengthen the immune system 4. Repair Tissue and Build Muscle 5. Sleep may improve endurance Research from Stanford published in SLEEP reported that increased sleeping time can improve athletic performance. Everybody knows how important sleep is even though our culture of hyper-busy people discourages it. You probably know someone who brags how he only needs five hours of sleep a night and another who insists on eight hours — and it’s true, sleep needs vary. At the same time, over sleeping also causes health risks. Sleep needs depend mostly on age.Over sleeping by an adult over nine hours out of 24hours, also leads to many health conditions. As an athlete, getting enough sleep is as important as your food and exercise choices. Cheating on sleep makes it hard to concentrate at work, may impair your appetite and cause irritability. A sleep debt can nega...