Sleep better, ride faster: How doing less could make you faster

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As the adage goes, you don’t get fitter from training, you get fitter from recovering from the training, and a crucial part of any good recovery regime is high-quality sleep. With the latest range of wearable tech able to track your sleep, it has never been easier to monitor the amount of sleep you get. To help explain how crucial sleep is in performance we caught up with Kristen Holmes, Principal Scientist at Whoop and a specialist on human performance. 

For a lot of us, an area that we could all benefit from improving is the amount the quality of sleep we are routinely getting. Along with training and diet, sleep is one of the cornerstones of any good structured training. Understanding how to increase sleep and the benefits it can bring is the first step in unlocking the performance gains that optimised sleep can bring. 

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