Friday, October 3, 2008

Runners, Trouble Sleeping ?


Thanks to the Journal of Sports Medicine, Norwegian Doctor Hans Smeltz, discovered that inhaling toxic fumes for extended periods of time during a normal night's sleep could prevent runners from achieving their full maximum output decreasing lung capacity by as much as 23%. A parallel study of a group of men & women under the same study but with the window ajar a quarter inch found the decrease of lung capacity still was effectively the same.

1 comment:

KeithRunsUltras said...

Now I know why my performances suck after spending the night in the same room as Kevin prior to a race.