01 Lights out
Sleep is the greatest recovery tool you possess but not enough of us are getting enough of it, with reportedly over 7.5million Brits kipping for fewer than five hours a night. This has cycling-performance repercussions with insufficient sleep linked to reduced power output and decision making. Health-wise it’s not great, either, with a study out of San Francisco showing how light exposure impairs metabolic function, which can lead to life-threatening conditions.
Twenty young adults slept in two different conditions. The first group was in ‘room light conditions’, and
