Connection Between Sleep and Athletic Performance

NCT01364831 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: WingateHC1
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 19
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

In the last few decades much knowledge has been accumulated on the connection between healthy, sufficient sleep and overall health, cognitive function, memory and job or school performance, motor vehicle accidents and work accidents. There has been growing awareness recently of the connection between physical activity and competitive sports performance, and the amount and quality of sleep. Despite the dearth of scientific studies, there is a constant effort to improve understanding in this field. An appropriate procedure designed to evaluate the influence of the quality and amount of sleep on ability and athletic performance must fulfill a number of basic requirements:

• Many studies show that shortened sleep duration constitutes an independent cause of increased cardiac events.
• Resting heart rate and maximum heart rate decrease after 30 hours of sleep deprivation. Respiratory System:
• Significant decline in respiratory function as measured by: FVC, Maximal voluntary ventilation, Maximal static inspiratory/expiratory pressures, Time to exhaustion with exercise, Peak O2 consumption, Peak CO2 production.
• Worsening of respiratory sleep disturbances. Digestive System:
• Changes in food consumption accompanied by changes in body weight. Neurophysiological System
• Disturbance of thermoregulation. Endocrine System:
• Hormonal changes associated with hypothalamic-hypophyseal axis
• Influence on secretion of Ghrelin and leptin
• Influence on secretion of growth hormone. In light of this, there is sound basis for the presumption that athletic performance is connected to these influences directly and indirectly. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the connection between sleep quality and duration and athletic performance among young athletes living and training at the Sport-Gifted Centre at the Wingate Institute.

Conditions

Quality Sleep Time; Athletic Performance

Keywords

sleep time; athletic performance

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Improved athletic performance: reduced swimming and running times over predefined distances with sleep extension

  Measure the changes in performance (running and swimmimng time) as follows: for runners- time required for 3000 m distance. for swimmers- time required for 50 m, 100 m, and 400 m, at predefined heart rates.

  12 months

Interventions

Sleep extension BEHAVIORAL

Athletic performance evaluated at baseline and following about 1.5 hours of sleep extension

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 13 Years - 20 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Age: 13-20 years old, male and female
• Generally good health
• Willingness to participate in the study
• Healthy heart rate

You may not qualify if:

• Arrhythmia
• Chronic or acute illness
• Unwillingness of the subject or his/her parents to participate in the study

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Wingate Institute: lead

Study Sites (1)

Wingate Institute

Netanya, 42902, Israel

Location

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Study Officials

• Eyal Shargal, PhD

  Wingate Institute

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Intervention Model: CROSSOVER
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Professional director , The Ribstein Center for Sports Medicine and Research

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 29, 2011
• First Posted: June 2, 2011
• Study Start: June 1, 2011
• Primary Completion: November 1, 2012
• Study Completion: November 1, 2012
• Last Updated: January 1, 2014

Record last verified: 2013-12

Locations

IL (1)