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If you train, your sleep is part of the program — not an afterthought. The Sleep Strength blog covers sleep protocols, the sleep stack, recovery science, and gear, all written for lifters and athletes who want their nights to work as hard as their training does.
Start with the Resources hub, or dive straight into The Athlete’s Night Routine — and get the free Athlete’s Night Routine Checklist to put the protocol into practice.
The sleep-supplement aisle is a minefield: proprietary blends, fairy-dusted doses, and ingredients riding one mouse study. If you train, your standard should be higher — you need to wake up ready to perform, not groggy. After 10+ years of coaching and testing these on myself …
You don’t get better at a skill during practice. Practice loads the information; REM sleep is when your brain files it. For athletes, REM is where technique becomes automatic — and it’s the stage modern schedules steal first. What REM actually does for performance Motor …
Your wearable splits your night into stages, but what do those numbers actually mean for your training? Deep sleep and REM do completely different jobs — and if you train, you need both. Here’s the division of labor, and how to get more of each. …
Every athlete tracks training load. Almost none track the variable that determines whether the body can absorb it. The injury research on sleep is some of the most actionable in sports science — and it points one direction. What the studies keep finding In a …
Vitamin D shows up in sleep articles because deficiency and poor sleep genuinely travel together. But D is not a sleep supplement — it’s a daytime hormone-like nutrient whose sleep value is indirect: fix a deficiency, and you remove one more drag on the system. …