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Endurance as Opposed to Power Training: Their Effect on Sleep
Author(s) -
Trinder John,
Paxton Susan J.,
Montgomery Jain,
Fraser Geoff
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
psychophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.661
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1469-8986
pISSN - 0048-5772
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1985.tb01665.x
Subject(s) - psychology , athletes , context (archaeology) , sleep (system call) , non rapid eye movement sleep , anaerobic exercise , aerobic exercise , physical therapy , electroencephalography , medicine , psychiatry , computer science , operating system , paleontology , biology
There is evidence that sleep is affected by physical exercise and by factors derived from exercise such as physical fitness and body composition. In this context, this study assessed the effect of type of athletic training. The sleep of four groups of 10 young male subjects, who differed with respect to the type of athletic training in which they habitually engaged, was compared on 2 consecutive, non‐exercise nights. The groups were: aerobically trained endurance runners; power trained weightlifters and bodybuilders; athletes with mixed anaerobic, aerobic, and power training; and an unfit, non‐athletic sedentary, control group. Pre‐planned comparisons showed that the control group did not differ from the combined athletic groups on any sleep variable. However, the aerobic group had more SWS and NREM sleep, slept longer, and had shorter sleep onset latencies than the power group. The mixed group was intermediate on each of these variables. The data show that the type of physical training in which athletes engage has substantial effects on their sleep–a finding which emphasizes the relevance of peripheral physiological factors for sleep architecture and which has theoretical relevance.