Slow-wave sleep: a recovery period after exercise

Science. 1981 Dec 11;214(4526):1253-4. doi: 10.1126/science.7302594.

Abstract

Sleep recordings were carried out on athletes on four successive nights after completing a 92-kilometer road race. Significant increases in total sleep time and slow-wave sleep were found after this metabolic stress. The results show a definite exercise effect on sleep and support sleep-restoration hypotheses.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Humans
  • Physical Exertion*
  • Running
  • Sleep Stages / physiology*
  • Sleep, REM / physiology