著者

大須 泰治 吉田 弘法 岡村 輝一 小西 裕之 小林 敏孝

出版者

足利工業大学

雑誌

足利工業大学研究集録 (ISSN:0287086X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.39, pp.113-117, 2005-03-18

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In our previous article (Ashikaga Institute of Technology Research Report Vol. 36, 2003), the effect of sleep on performances of gymnasts was examined in terms of their subjective feelings of sleep, and it was found out that Japan's top athletes had achieved adequate sleep regularity and that the degree of a good sleep estimation in them was larger than that in average university athletes. In this article, we have attempted to add details about the relationship between the sleep behavior and athletic performance through the analysis of sleep-log of a gymnast who participated in Sydney Olympic Games 2000. His sleep behavior before, during, and after the Olympic Games was analyzed and compared with the sleep behaviors of five other subjects examined in the previous research. The Olympic gymnast showed an extremely high degree of regularity in sleep and positively estimated his subjective feeling of sleep, which supposedly led to his successful performance in the Olympic Games. This result suggests that top-level international gymnasts characteristically have a high degree of sleep regularity and quality.