Napping in high-performance athletes: Sleepiness or sleepability?


Journal

European journal of sport science
ISSN: 1536-7290
Titre abrégé: Eur J Sport Sci
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101146739

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Mar 2021
Historique:
pubmed: 17 3 2020
medline: 14 7 2021
entrez: 17 3 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Daytime napping is a common practice in high-performance athletes, and is widely assumed to reflect sleepiness arising from sports-related sleep debt. The possibility that athlete naps may also be indicative of 'sleepability', a capacity to nap on demand that is only weakly related to homeostatic sleep pressure, has not previously been tested. The present study compared daytime sleep latencies in high-performance athletes and non-athlete controls using a single nap opportunity model. Elite (

Identifiants

pubmed: 32174283
doi: 10.1080/17461391.2020.1743765
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

321-330

Auteurs

Luke Gupta (L)

English Institute of Sport, The High Performance Centre, Bisham Abbey National Sports Centre, Buckinghamshire, UK.
Clinical Sleep Research Unit, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, LE113TU, UK.

Kevin Morgan (K)

Clinical Sleep Research Unit, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, LE113TU, UK.

Courtney North (C)

Clinical Sleep Research Unit, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, LE113TU, UK.

Sarah Gilchrist (S)

Gilchrist Performance, Reading, UK.

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