Sleep is vital in accelerating recovery processes, enhancing performance, and maintaining good health, for all human beings and particularly for athletes. Habitual sleep deficit (sleep duration < 6 hours) has been associated with major health problems in the general population. 14 Laboratory studies have shown that acute total sleep deprivation (i.e., no sleep for a whole night) or severe sleep restriction impairs muscle recovery as a result of sleep debt’s effects on catabolic and anabolic hormones. 5,