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Sleep and athletic performance: review
Landmark review demonstrating sleep extension to 10+ hours improves reaction time, accuracy, and sprint times in athletes, with sleep loss impairing all performance metrics.
Sleep Extension Benefits
- Reaction time: 8-10% improvement
- Sprint times: 3-5% faster
- Accuracy: 10-15% improvement
Sleep Loss Effects
<6h sleep: 10-30% performance decrement; 8h insufficient for athletes.
Outcomes
- Reaction Time Improvement9
- Sprint Time Improvement4
- Accuracy Improvement12.5