You Snooze, You Win

Sleep and its impact on athletes as well as knowledge workers... How to use Sleep Indicators to improve performance on teams on and off the court.

After more than two decades of working with professional sporting teams, high-net-worth individuals, and C-suite executives, sleep health consistently ranks among the few indicators with proven performance results.

There are others, but none with as much science to reinforce what we have experienced.

Back in 2011, Stanford University's Cheri Mah's Sleep study on basketball athletes prompted us at the Perth Wildcats and Perth Lynx to partner with UWA's Dr Ian C Dunican, championed by our own head of Physical Performance, Josh Cavanagh, to conduct our own research into sleep and its effects on performance in 2015 (https://lnkd.in/gd3JhYyy).

Mah's study proved that just two extra hours of sleep has significant improvements such as:

- Players ran faster 282-foot sprints (16.2 seconds versus 15.5 seconds) than they had at baseline;

- Free throw percentages increased by 9 per cent;

- 3-point field goal percentage increased by 9.2 per cent; and

- Fatigue levels decreased following sleep extension,…