The importance of sleep

In a world that glorifies the grind, we are all constantly juggling school, work, the gym, and our busy lives but we’re only as good as we recover, and the best recovery tool that we all neglect is sleep. While we are sleeping our bodies are rebuilding and restoring muscle and recharging us cognitively getting us ready for the next day. Acknowledging the significance sleep has to our performance, the other metric we asked our athletes to track in the first week was the amount of sleep they got the night before.

 In the original challenge, we only asked our athletes to track the amount of sleep.  However, as I go through our challenge I am also going to track the quality of my sleep. I have always been an insomniac so I am going to use the challenge to also help me improve my sleep habits.  I’ll be experimenting with many sleep tracking and let you my feedback as I go through the challenge.

 Today, my hour of activity I ran a loop at Crown Hill Park and did a half hour of mobility and stretching.  I drank 64 ounces of water and started using the Garmin sleep app which said I got less than 4 hours of quality sleep.