The Royals want their players to get a good night’s sleep:
“Everything we’ve learned about sleep and athletic performance has really been learned in the last 10 to 12 years,” Driggers said. “It’s a very new area of research.”
The benefits are basic, yet substantial. In athletes, additional sleep is connected to memory consolidation, Driggers said, the ability to both remember concepts and techniques taught during a workout and the physical muscle memory needed to master something like a baseball swing. Driggers compares the process to downloading information onto a computer hard drive. To be sleep deprived is the equivalent of turning off your computer without saving a document.
“This is a very skill-intensive time of the year,” Driggers said. “We know sleep supports skill development.”
The Royals took the step of starting workouts later in the morning so that players get proper rest.
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