Gooderick, Julie, Wood, Toby, Abbott, Will, Maxwell, Neil, Hayes, Mark (2024) Can sleep hygiene interventions affect strength and power outcomes for female athletes? Sport Sciences for Health, . ISSN 1824-7490. (In press) (KAR id:106898)
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Abstract
Improved sleep can enhance sprint, endurance, and sports-specific skills; however, it is yet to be investigated whether improved sleep indices could enhance strength and power performance. Sleep hygiene (SH) is growing in popularity as a tool to enhance sleep indices amongst athletic cohorts, yet the optimal delivery strategy of sleep hygiene education is yet to be determined. Using a randomised, controlled design with repeated measures, this study recruited 34 female footballers playing in WSL or WSL academy league. Participants were split into 3 groups: one receiving both group-based and individualised sleep hygiene education, one receiving only group-based SH education and a control group receiving no education. Monitoring of sleep (actigraphy, diaries) and physical performance (countermovement jump, isometric mid-thigh pull) was carried out at week 1, week 4 and week 7. Split-plot ANOVAs were used to assess for differences between groups x weeks, and groups x time. Individualised sleep hygiene education resulted in significantly improved sleep duration (p =0.005), latency (p=0.006) and efficiency (p=0.004) at week 7 compared to controls, whilst also resulting in significantly improved countermovement jump scores (p=0.001) compared to control. Results of this study suggest that jump performance may be affected by sleep factors, and that individualised SH may be superior to group-based SH, providing information to coaches regarding training optimisation and the efficacy of SH education methods.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled keywords: | Sleep, athletes, recovery, strength, power |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Natural Sciences > Sport and Exercise Sciences |
Funders: | University of Kent (https://ror.org/00xkeyj56) |
Depositing User: | Julie Gooderick |
Date Deposited: | 16 Aug 2024 09:25 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Aug 2024 09:26 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/106898 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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