Intense Training Disturbs Sleep, And Mood

Wake up! It’s time to read about one of the reasons you can’t sleep. Science Daily reports that researchers at Loughborough University monitored the moods, sleep patterns, and performance of 13 expert cyclists over the course of two nine-day periods of heavy training. What did they find? The envelope please….Instense training could cause significant and progressive decline in sleep quality, and worse, the athletes’ moods turned dark, with feelings of anger, fatigue, confusion, and depression. The good news? It’s not much, but the researchers also found that a high carbohydrate regime reduced some, but not all, of the effects of hard training. At least, the moderate-carb athletes recorded more sleep time.