Publications by authors named "G Warrington"
Article Synopsis
- Sleep is crucial for athletes' physical and mental health, aiding in recovery, immune function, and overall performance.
- Sufficient duration, timing, and quality of sleep are necessary to support recovery and manage fatigue from training and competitions.
- Nutritional strategies, including certain foods and supplements, can enhance sleep quality, but more research is needed to fully understand how nutrition interacts with sleep for improved athlete health and performance.
Article Synopsis
- The study aims to create guidelines that help balance sports and work commitments for athletes, incorporating feedback from both employee-athletes and their employers.
- Using concept mapping, 257 participants ranked statements related to dual careers, leading to six key clusters that highlight different aspects of workplace support.
- The results indicate a need for flexible models that align business values with support for employee-athletes, providing a strong evidence base for new dual career workplace guidelines.
Purpose: Despite the introduction of Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-s) in 2014, there is evidence to suggest that male endurance athletes still present with a high prevalence of low energy availability (LEA). Previous findings suggest that energy availability (EA) status is strongly correlated with impairments in endocrine function such as reduced leptin, triiodothyronine (T, and insulin, and elevated bone loss. This study aimed to report the current EA status, endocrine function and bone health of highly trained Irish male endurance athletes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To systematically map the coach education (CE) component of injury prevention programmes (IPPs) for youth field sports by identifying and synthesising the design, content and facilitation strategies used to address competency drivers and behaviour change.
Design: Scoping review.
Data Sources: PubMed, PsycInfo, EMBASE, CINAHL, SportDiscus and Google Scholar electronic databases were searched using keywords related to IPPs and youth field sports.
The impact of long haul travel on the sleep of elite athletes.
Neurobiol Sleep Circadian Rhythms
November 2023
In order to manage and implement strategies to alleviate the symptoms of jet lag it is essential to assess the impact of jet lag in athletes. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of long haul eastward travel on elite athletes' (n = 7 elite national track cyclists; male n = 3, and female n = 4) sleep. The athletes' sleep was monitored before, during and after travel using both actigraphy and self-report measures.
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