Melatonin is the most misunderstood supplement in the sleep aisle. It’s sold like a sleeping pill, dosed like a sledgehammer, and taken for problems it was never built to solve. Here’s what it actually is — and the narrow, genuinely useful ways people who train should (and shouldn’t) use it. What melatonin actually does Melatonin
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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 learning consolidation. Studies on sleep after skill practice consistently show
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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. Deep sleep: the body’s repair shift Deep sleep (slow-wave, N3)
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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 widely cited study of adolescent athletes, those sleeping under 8
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