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How to Sleep Like a Champion: The Science of Sleep and Athletic Performance

The Sporting

It allows your heart to rest, your cells and tissue to repair, and your immune system to fight infections. Impaired Recovery and Adaptation Poor sleeping habits can interfere with the processes that help the body heal and grow after exercise, such as muscle repair, tissue growth and hormone secretion.

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COVID-19’s Impact on Youth Physical Activity

Spark PE

All in-person recreation was closed, including youth sports, dance, martial arts, and exercise classes. On the positive side, in the US, exercise was generally considered an “essential activity” so people could use streets and sidewalks for walking, running, and biking. Pandemic benefits of physical activity.