My Q and A With Pete Carroll and His Team Of Sports Scientists, Who Helped The Seattle Seahawks Sleep Their Way to The Top
An excerpt -
The professional sports community has become a pioneer in showcasing the importance of sleep. You have been an advocate of this for a long time -- when did you first start incorporating sleep training into your teams' practices, and what inspired you to do so?
Fatigue and performance are intimately linked and sleep is one of the important variables to get right to help athletes sustain high effort and enthusiasm, for the long haul.
We've tried to not make a big deal about sleep, because we don't want athletes to hyper-focus on if they aren't getting enough of it.
Instead, we learn from leading scientists about the best practices to maximize the effects of sleep on our organization. We schedule our training schedules and flight patterns to optimize the science of sleep. We spend a good amount of energy to educate athletes and coaches about the impact and effects of sleep. We also allocate resources to monitor sleep patterns for those who want to optimize their recovery process.
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