FEATURE / CRAIG LEWIS

Within the world of sport, the importance of sleep as a key tool to aid recovery and regeneration is starting to gain traction within mainstream sports science. Previously, sports science practitioners, in the search to gain the merest of advantages, had tended to look at more ‘sexier’ options in order to assist the athlete to gain the slightest edge from a regeneration point of view. Ice and contrast baths, compression socks, cryo-chambers, cryo-saunas and a host of other technological advances have undoubtedly been shown to improve the level of athlete recovery through either anecdotal or research based evidence but without question, the importance of sleep should never be compromised nor overlooked in the ultimate search to assist in the body’s ability to recover

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