Patrick Mahomes and Rory McIlroy are among those preaching a whopping night’s sleep
“A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow,” Charlotte Brontë once wrote, and she knew what she was on about. Any lack of respect for our nightly repose can have repercussions, some more dangerous than you might think, to our health and society and turns out inside the sporting arena too. If you care about your five-a-day you also should your eight-a-night – as in hours in bed and preferably asleep.
Whoop is more about the night, about rest and recovery, acting as your own personal sleep coach, telling you via the supporting App how much sleep you got versus how much sleep your body needed. It’s not quite as fancy as the Oura Ring or busy as the Fitbit; it is making the once elite-only sleep coach available to all.
That’s assuming you want to know: my sample device, kindly supplied by Whoop several weeks ago, is still sitting on the wine table untouched. There is no night owl mode. Humans, he adds, are the only species that deliberately deprive themselves of sleep, even if “it is difficult to imagine any other state, natural or medically manipulated, that affords a more damaging redressing of physical and mental health at every level of analysis.” In contrast, adequate sleep reforms the body’s metabolic state, and is “intimately tied to the fitness of our cardiovascular system, lowering blood pressure while keeping our hearts in fine condition”.
Oscar Wilde always said the most frightening sentence in the English language is “I had a very interesting dream last night.” Vladimir Nabokov had little time for that fraternity of sleep either, although he did believe in dreams, occasionally using them as inspiration, as did Paul McCartney, who had the idea for Let It Be after a dream he had about his mother during the tense sessions for the White Album.
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