{"id":889,"date":"2016-05-05T14:09:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T14:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?p=889"},"modified":"2016-05-05T14:14:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T14:14:38","slug":"video-the-sleep-secrets-of-british-cycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?p=889","title":{"rendered":"Video: The importance of sleep in athletic performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this video Sir Dave Brailsford, Nick Littlehales, and Chris Hoy talk about the importance of sleep to aid recovery from intensive exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Sleep is covered in our new module <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?p=871\"title=\"New module: Exploring contemporary issues in sport and exercise\"  target=\"_blank\" >E314<\/a> starting in October 2016.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 625px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-889-1\" width=\"625\" height=\"500\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CP_OpenUni_SleepSecrets_TX_121115.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CP_OpenUni_SleepSecrets_TX_121115.mp4\" >https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CP_OpenUni_SleepSecrets_TX_121115.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Note: This video is also available\u00a0in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.edu\/openlearn\/health-sports-psychology\/health\/sport-and-fitness\/sport\/chasing-perfection-how-do-athletes-become-champions\" target=\"_blank\" >OpenLearn Chasing Perfection video collection<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video Sir Dave Brailsford, Nick Littlehales, and Chris Hoy talk about the importance of sleep to aid recovery from intensive exercise. Sleep is covered in our new module E314 starting in October 2016. Note: This video is also available\u00a0in the\u00a0OpenLearn Chasing Perfection video collection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,74,70,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chasing-perfection","category-e314","category-recovery","category-sleep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","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=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1105,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}