I keep coming across articles at the moment about sleep and how important it is and how a lack of it can be detrimental to both health and training. Here are a few of the more interesting bits I have come across.

• Sleep, sport and health
• Sleep deprivation can hinder sports performance
• Exercise and sleep
• Exercise prevents cancer only with sleep

I struggle to sleep solidly for 7 or 8 hours, often waking at least once during the night, so I’m not convinced that the hours that I do sleep are good quality sleep. One of my new strategies just now is to try to cut down on the amount of time I spend on the computer in the evenings especially just before bed as I think often the problem is that my mind is still working overtime and not shutting down when I go to bed.  I was therefore very interested to come across this bit of research today on computer use before sleep.

• Bedtime computer use stops sleep

Finally, at the end of the article on Sleep, Sport and Health there were some useful tips on improving your sleep patterns

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