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

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.
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.36, pp.47-52, 2003-03-18

In order to understand the effects of an athlete's sleep behavior upon their game results. the relationship between athlete's sleep-wakefulness rhythm and their game results were estimated by both the sleep log and the questionnaire for sleep (named OSA sleep inventory). 24 male gymnasts (aged 20.5±1.32 year) participated in this study. Their results of the games were collected from the following competitions; the international DTB Cup 2000(Germany, December, 2000.), The 54th All Japan Gymnastics Championships in Sendai 2000, The 55th All Japan Gymnastics Championships in Kochi 2001, The 33rd Tohoku and Hokkaido University Gymnastics Championships in Sendai 2000. An athlete, whose subjective sleep length at the night before the game were similar or longer when compared with the average subjective sleep length of the nights from one week age to two days before a game, received good results in their game. An athlete, whose subjective sleep length at the night before the game were shorter than the average subjective sleep length in the week before a game, therefore they could not get good results in their game. An athlete, whose subjective sleep feeling al the night before the game was better than the average subjective sleep feeling in the week, hence they also received good results in their games. These results suggest that their stability of the sleep-wakefulness rhythm and a good subjective sleep feeling are closely related to their game results.