Delaying early morning workouts to protect sleep in two-a-day athletes

Two-a-day training is common for endurance athletes with training sessions typically beginning at 6 a.m. and 3 p.m. or 4 p.m. However, the early morning workouts could contribute to significant sleep loss, especially for night owls. Chronic sleep loss over a season could result in impaired performan...

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Published inFrontiers in physiology Vol. 15; p. 1346761
Main Author Youngstedt, Shawn D
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 2024
Subjects
circadian
depression
night owl
Physiology
sleep loss
sleep loss
circadian
night owl
performance
depression
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Summary:Two-a-day training is common for endurance athletes with training sessions typically beginning at 6 a.m. and 3 p.m. or 4 p.m. However, the early morning workouts could contribute to significant sleep loss, especially for night owls. Chronic sleep loss over a season could result in impaired performance, as well as an increased risk of physical and mental illness. It is hypothesized that shifting the early morning workout to later in the day could have beneficial effects for these athletes. A number of obstacles could make this hypothesis difficulty to test and implement. However, such a change could have dramatic benefits for some athletes.
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Edited by: Letizia Galasso, University of Milan, Italy
Arcady A. Putilov, Federal Research Center of Fundamental and Translational Medicine, Russia
Reviewed by: Petros G. Botonis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
ISSN:1664-042X
1664-042X
DOI:10.3389/fphys.2024.1346761