Awaken the Champion Within
Dr. Amy M. Bender
Sleep scientist, elite athlete, and passionate speaker helping individuals and teams reach their maximum potential in sport and life.
Why Sleep In To Win?
Despite sleep taking up a third of our lives, we often struggle with sleep and fail to prioritize it. This can be problematic, especially for athletes, as sleep is critical for recovery and optimal athletic performance. Sleep In To Win is about getting more high quality sleep to help you perform better. This could be through many different ways – like sleeping in, taking a nap, or even going to bed early.
Back when Amy played college basketball, there wasn’t much insight into why sleep was important for athletic performance. Her coaches would tell her to get a good night’s sleep and that was the end of the conversation. Dr. Bender wants to change that by giving athletes and high performing individuals the actionable information they need to prioritize sleep for peak performance.
Being a former college athlete herself and Hall of Fame basketball player, she understands the challenges and solutions for athletes to sleep better.
Dr. Bender is an expert in sleep and performance who has studied and worked with NBA, NHL, NFL, and Olympic athletes throughout Canada and the US. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Kinesiology at University of Calgary and Director of Clinical Sleep Science at Cerebra.
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Early flights are a struggle.
ZERO systems functioning, most screaming at me what are you doing, no no no this is all wrong, nooooooo.
Brain baffled and grumpy at people with the nerve to look awake or do awake things like talk or eat or exist
“The water is deeper the further you get from the shore.” - anonymous
The more you learn, the less you know.
A poster we could all live up to. Congrats on winning best poster and cool study too!
A few updates! Very happy to have won a @mychronotherapy Poster Prize @ConferenceSltbr 2022! My poster reflects work I undertook for my MSc project, under the supervision of @mspitschan @OxExpPsy @UniofOxford @St_Catz.
http://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/8E74W
@NDCNOxford @OxSCNi @lmhoxford