Compete better in Olympic weightlifting with travel sleep tips from Teresa van der Vossen
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🏋️♀️ Extended version of this interview: https://www.patreon.com/posts/traveling-for-92050236 🏋️♀️
Teresa van der Vossen is a Lecturer in Exercise and Wellness at UCOL, New Zealand. She specializes in strength and conditioning for high-performance athletes. Teresa is also a competitive Olympic weightlifter, ranking second in her weight class in New Zealand.
New Zealand weightlifters have a long way to travel to almost any international competition but traveling for the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games was as far as you can go. We all know that traveling that far will influence sleep but how exactly? What can be done to elevate the negatives?
In this interview, Teresa walks us through her Masters degree research project looking at sleep in elite weightlifters traveling for an international competition. Her project consisted of two studies, which she describes for us in detail.
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