{"id":1056,"date":"2016-03-18T11:49:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T11:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2016-03-18T11:49:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T11:49:50","slug":"is-sleep-the-secret-of-success-for-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?p=1056","title":{"rendered":"Is sleep the secret of success for athletes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, March 18th, is World Sleep Day. We all recognise the importance of sleep and know how it feels when we don&#8217;t get enough, but how important is sleep to sports performance?<\/p>\n<p>This is a question that\u00a0is explored in our new module <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/courses\/modules\/e314\" target=\"_blank\" ><em>E314 Exploring Contemporary Issues in Sport and Exercise<\/em><\/a>. In the video below Caroline Heaney gives an overview of the role that sleep plays for athletes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/cMOUcIbUKFE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For more articles and posts relating to sleep <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?cat=77\" target=\"_blank\" >CLICK HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, March 18th, is World Sleep Day. We all recognise the importance of sleep and know how it feels when we don&#8217;t get enough, but how important is sleep to sports performance? This is a question that\u00a0is explored in our new module E314 Exploring Contemporary Issues in Sport and Exercise. In the video below Caroline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e314","category-sleep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}