10 Ways Swimmers Can Get More Sleep

10 Ways Swimmers Can Get More Sleep
By Mike Gustafson//Correspondent 
 
If dogs are man’s best friend, then sleep is a swimmer’s best friend. Perhaps because we want what we can’t have. Early morning practices. Early Saturday preliminaries. Holidays spent at the pool, slogging up and down mile after mile inside a concrete grave while the rest of your non-swimming friends sleep in. Swimmers are constantly chasing sleep. We crave it, we need it, we demand it.
 
And yet, I've never met a swimmer who has ever said, “I get too much sleep.” Never happened. And perhaps that sentence has never been uttered by a swimmer, ever, in human history. I would believe it. 

How can swimmers get more sleep? More of this necessary component to recovery that this very website said was one of the most important “supplements” and vital for fast swimming? 

Here are 10 ways swimmers can get more sleep:   Full Story