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The Effects of Sleep Extension on the Athletic Performance of Collegiate Basketball Players
Mah C.D., Mah K.E., Kezirian E.J., Dement W.C.
Sleep · 2011
External published research · Published literature
Research type
Randomized controlled trial
Discipline
Human Performance Sciences
Level of evidence
Randomized/controlled trial
DOI
10.5665/sleep.1132
Topics
Sleep & Recovery
What the study reports
Collegiate basketball players who extended sleep toward ten hours in bed improved sprint times, shooting accuracy, reaction time and mood. The intervention was uncontrolled and used a small squad, so effect sizes should be treated as indicative rather than precise.
The PROMACHOS reading
Extending sleep is one of the few interventions that improves reaction time, accuracy and mood simultaneously and costs nothing. PROMACHOS treats sleep as a trainable standard rather than a lifestyle preference, and expects students carrying heavy technical loads to protect it deliberately.
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