The Sleep Dilemma: Quantity vs. Quality – Separating Science from Wearable Hype

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The Sleep Dilemma: Quantity vs. Quality – Separating Science from Wearable Hype

This blog post explores the age-old debate between sleep quantity and sleep quality, examining the benefits of each as supported by scientific evidence. It also discusses the limitations of consumer wearables like the Whoop, Apple Watch, and Oura Ring in measuring sleep quality accurately. The post highlights the importance of achieving a balance between quantity and quality and how wearables can serve as behavioral change tools. Additionally, it relates these concepts to endurance athletes, specifically swimmers, and their sleep-related needs for performance and recovery.

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Improving Swim Performance: The Importance of Body Composition in Elite Swimmers

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Improving Swim Performance: The Importance of Body Composition in Elite Swimmers

Body composition is crucial for athletic performance, particularly in swimming, a sport that demands high physicality. Elite swimmers' physical makeup is extensively studied due to its strong correlation with water performance. Measurements such as body mass, height, skinfolds, and lean mass index (LMI) are used for analysis.

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Swimming Fast and Loose

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Swimming Fast and Loose

Have you ever noticed swimmers compulsively shaking their muscles and fidgeting behind the blocks before a race? From Michael Phelps iconic arm swings to the, “dancing queen,” Sierra Schmidt, at last summers Olympic Trials, it turns out there is more to moving and staying loose, than just nervous energy.

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Stable Endurance Training

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Stable Endurance Training

The Bunkie test is a functional endurance test to help identify functional stability, endurance, and control through some of the common fascial lines. It’s a series of 5 exercises, performed bilaterally (both sides). Its a simple test for identifying weak links in your ability to efficiency coordinate multiple muscles linked in a kinetic chain associated with particular movement patterns, and can help you identify weak links and patterns to program more specifically for your needs.

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Shape up your Swing

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Spring is here and so is golf season. Whether you are striving to advance through the competitive ranks, simply trying to take a couple of strokes off your game, or endure an injury free season, participating in a well designed strength and conditioning program can significantly improve your performance. Plexus Fitness is at your service to provide the functional, sport-specific training you need to play your best this season.

The golf swing is a complex movement that puts joints under a high amount of stress, especially the lower back, wrists, and elbows. A mechanically efficient golf swing requires a combination of flexibility, strength and balance. Functional exercise training is proven to be useful to improve joint stability, balance, muscular coordination, strength, and endurance in both healthy and injured athletes of all ages. Athletes of all skill levels can benefit from these performance related components of fitness.

At Train Daly we give special attention to assessing flexibility, core stabilization, balance, and functional strength to properly initiate and progress a specific program for your needs throughout the season. Let us help you get a head start on the season. Please call 347-850-DALY or email dan@traindaly.com to schedule a complimentary needs based fitness assessment and goal consultation. Remember to continue to check our Blog Daly for the latest in golf training and other health related topics.