Both athletes and coaches recognise the importance of training for the attainment of high levels of sports performance. However, one factor is constantly underrated: recovery. Among the possible recovery strategies, sleep can be a key factor in restoring the body from central fatigue and/or peripheral fatigue, both inherent to physical training.

As a sports scientist, I use and recommend Condor Instruments’ ActTrust 2 for the monitoring of the sleep/wake cycle because the equipment is a valid alternative, with great sensitivity and specificity indices, besides the good cost-benefit to register and monitor sleep in athletes. The athletes under the consultancy of EXERSCI benefit from this sleep monitoring, notedly essential to the understanding of individual responses to training, assessing fatigue and the need for recovery in order to minimize overtraining risk and injuries and to maximize sports performance.

I’ve always had some sleep problems and since 2019, I've been monitored by Dr. João Paulo from EXERSCI Scientific Consultancy, who uses Condor Instruments’ actigraph! All data is used for adjusting my sleep routine so that I can feel less sleepy during training and be physically ready for the fight!