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The Athlete · № 08

Tracked Your Sleep

Tracked your sleep for 30 consecutive days using a wearable or log, identified your average, and hit 8+ hours on at least 20 of them.

The idea

Sleep is the most underrated training input by an embarrassing margin. Have your kid calculate the bedtime they need from when they wake up, then treat it as non-negotiable for a month. Eight hours, twenty nights out of thirty, isn't strict. It's normal. The kid who sleeps well outperforms the kid who trains more. Most teen athletes don't know that. Most adult ones forgot.

Steps
  1. Pick the tracking method and stick with it.
  2. Set the target bedtime from wake time. Non-negotiable.
  3. Track 30 consecutive nights. No skipping data.
  4. Compare performance on 8+ hour nights vs. shorter ones.
What counts

30 days of tracked sleep, average hours calculated, 20+ nights at 8+ hours. A screenshot of the log is plenty.