Health and Fitness

Evidence of Disturbed Sleep and Increased Illness in Overreached Endurance Athletes

C. Hausswirth, J. Louis, et al.

Endurance athletes who became functionally overreached during an overload training block showed objectively reduced sleep duration and efficiency and a higher rate of upper respiratory infections—effects that reversed during taper. Research conducted by Christophe Hausswirth, Julien Louis, Anaël Aubry, Guillaume Bonnet, Rob Duffield, and Yann Le Meur.

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