Sleep Your Way to Better Performance

About this episode

This episode discusses how to improve sleep for better performance and recovery with insights from sleep experts.

We all know sleep is critical for performance and recovery but how do we actually get better at it? In this episode, Sleep Is A Skill creator Mollie Eastman and The RunDot Running Podcast's Carrie Tollefson join Vanessa Ronksley to break down how to improve your sleep in practical, actionable ways. We cover what sleep really does for the body, how much you need, and how it directly impacts performance and recovery. Then we get into the details that matter most: optimizing your sleep environment, choosing the right equipment, and understanding how nutrition, supplements, and tracking devices can either support (or sabotage) your sleep. This episode won’t put you to sleep, but it will inspire you to start treating sleep like the performance tool it truly is and unlock gains you may be leaving on the table.

People in this episode

Host: Vanessa Ronksley

Guests: Mollie Eastman, Carrie Tollefson

Topics covered

• sleep
• performance
• recovery
• nutrition
• supplements
• sleep environment

Keywords

• sleep
• performance
• recovery
• nutrition
• supplements
• sleep environment
• tracking devices

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sleep Is A Skill, The RunDot Running Podcast

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