Maximising athlete recovery and sleep, and appraising current technology with Shona Halson (Associate Professor at Australian Catholic University)

In this episode of the Pacey Performance Podcast, I am speaking to Associate Professor at Australian Catholic University, Shona Halson. This is the second time Shona has been on the podcast after she appeared in episode #82 and we build on a lot of the topics mentioned over 3 years ago. Shona is an expert when it comes to sleep and recovery so naturally that forms a huge part of this conversation. Shona is speaking at the ACU and Notre Dame Human Performance Summit in a couple of weeks so be sure to check her out at this amazing conference.

Hope you enjoy this episode with Shona Halson.

• Who Shona Halson (background, education and current role)?
• Sleep
  • Monitoring tools
  • Appraisal of current tech
    • What can we trust?
  • Feedback post assessment
  • Insomnia
  • Behaviour change
  • Link to overtraining/overreaching
• Recovery modalities
  • What the research says and use in practice
  • Cold water immersion
    • Effects on sleep
  • Cryotherapy
  • Compression garments
  • Periodisation of recovery
  • Psychological recovery
• Travel
  • Travel hygiene
  • Using nutrition to combat jet lag

Shona can be found on Twitter @shonahalson

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Enjoy

PP