Author: (the book reviewer): Gheorghe Dumitru
Affiliation
Sports medicine primary doctor, Constanta, Romania
Abstract
How important sleep is for people in general and especially for athletes is not only something easy to understand, but also a clearly proven scientific aspect. And given that only during the last decades the sleep in athletes could be objectively studied – due to the rapid advances in specific recording technologies – explains why sleep in sports is an extremely current topic; in other words an area where the novelties simply flood the scientific literature dedicated to sport. Here are the circumstances due which the presentation of the latest synthesis in the field becomes mandatory for our journal.
As its title suggests, Sleep and Sport: Physical Performance, Mental Performance, Injury Prevention, and Competitive Advantage for Athletes, Coaches, and Trainers addresses not only sleep specialists, but also those around athletes and athletes themselves. This approach is very inspiring because the athletes sleep health promotion and improvement represents an objective extremely difficult if not impossible to accomplish, without the involvement and continuous, sincere adherence and collaboration of all these categories of professionals.
Keywords: sleep in athletes, sleep and sport, sleep health, physical performance, mental performance.
https://doi.org/10.26659/pm3.2024.25.2.118
