Athletes may need more sleep than the rest of us if they want to up their game, a new study suggests.
Researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine found that members of the university's varsity men's basketball team ran faster sprints, shot baskets more accurately and had lower levels of fatigue if they got 10 or more hours of sleep at night.
In the study, published in the journal SLEEP, the study participants slept normally for two to four weeks, then tried to get a minimum of 10 hours of sleep for five to seven weeks. Their athletic performance was measured after every basketball practice.
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