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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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Surprising Consequences of Physical Inactivity

Skillastics

You don’t need a degree in sports medicine to know that some consequences of physical inactivity are as plain as the nose on your face. Obesity–both as a child and later as an adult–is one of the primary risks of a sedentary lifestyle. TRANSFORM YOUR PROGRAM TODAY.

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COVID-19’s Impact on Youth Physical Activity

Spark PE

Across the globe, efforts to promote social distancing directly affected physical activity of youth by closing schools, which affected physical activity opportunities including physical education, recess, after-school sports and activities, and walking and biking to school. Pandemic benefits of physical activity.