Industry Presented Webinar: Sleep Tactics for Better Performance

Sponsored by: Gatorade Sports Science Institute

Viewpoints presented in this webinar reflect opinions of the presenter and GSSI and do not reflect positions or policies of ACSM.

Optimal sleep is critical for health and considered one of the most potent performance enhancers available. During sleep, many processes take place including repairing and rebuilding muscle, and the pruning and forming of new memories. For an athlete, sub-optimal sleep can lead to impaired mood, shorter time to exhaustion, poor nutrition choices, and greater injury risk. We will discuss the importance of making sure athletes get sufficient quantity, quality and timing of sleep – so they can perform better on and off the field.

Learning Objectives:

• Define what constitutes good sleep including optimal sleep quantity, quality, and timing of sleep.
• Dispel sleep myths for yourself and translate that knowledge into sleep education for your athletes in a meaningful way.
• Implement sleep screening strategies and identification of maladaptive sleep behaviors such in the athletes you are working with.
• Implement other sleep strategies including “banking sleep” and napping.

Presenter Bio:

Amy Bender, MS, Ph.D.

Dr. Bender is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Calgary in the Faculty of Kinesiology. She received her Ph.D. and Master of Science degrees in Experimental Psychology from Washington State University specializing in sleep EEG. She has developed sleep optimization strategies for numerous Canadian Olympic and Professional teams and is now using her expertise to understand how sleep interventions can improve mental health outcomes. 

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