Nebraska Baseball

regionsdoc

Senior
Feb 4, 2004
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The "lack of sleep" thing is and old wives tale when you are talking about 20 year olds.

If you like what you are doing the next day, the sleep part doesn't matter. We used to go out, drink all night, try to nail some beaver, come home, eat some fast food and get to bed around 1am...then get up a 5:45 for a 7am tee time and be drinking again on the ride to the course
Science would say that everybody’s memory of how great they were functioning on little sleep as 20 year old gods was a joke:


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Insufficient sleep leads to declines in strength, power, endurance, and cognitive function and is also linked to higher rates of injury in young athletes. Additionally, inadequate sleep negatively affects mental health and regenerative capacity [5].
 

bigboxes

All-American
Sep 4, 2004
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The "lack of sleep" thing is and old wives tale when you are talking about 20 year olds.

If you like what you are doing the next day, the sleep part doesn't matter. We used to go out, drink all night, try to nail some beaver, come home, eat some fast food and get to bed around 1am...then get up a 5:45 for a 7am tee time and be drinking again on the ride to the course
Golf... You are quite the athlete

 

SuperBigFan69

All-Conference
Apr 17, 2021
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Science would say that everybody’s memory of how great they were functioning on little sleep as 20 year old gods was a joke:


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Insufficient sleep leads to declines in strength, power, endurance, and cognitive function and is also linked to higher rates of injury in young athletes. Additionally, inadequate sleep negatively affects mental health and regenerative capacity [5].

I guess you are right...if a 20 year old D1 player only gets hours of sleep instead of 8 he will no longer be able to function and will die.