Good sleep can improve your athletic endurance, speed, and recovery

Whether you’re a casual exerciser or a seasoned athlete, you probably wouldn’t mind adopting foolproof, healthy hacks to improve your physical abilities. Perhaps you already have a few in your toolkit, such as cross-training and staying on top of your protein intake and hydration status.  Yet there’s one in particular that’s completely free and proven … Read more

Here’s exactly when to stop drinking caffeine for the best chance of a great night’s sleep

Can’t start your day without a hearty dose of coffee? Regularly brew a cup of green tea after lunch? While these caffeinated drinks offer health benefits that go beyond helping you perk up and stay focused, relying on them in high quantities and/or drinking up too late in the day could mean bad news for … Read more

What exactly is sleep hygiene – and why is it so important?

Achieving consistently better sleep is sometimes a matter of habit. Good sleep hygiene encourages making sleep-positive adjustments to your environment and pre-bed behaviors. By regularly practicing good sleep hygiene, quality rest becomes a matter of routine. Proper sleep hygiene encompasses your day and night, but while it might seem intimidating at first, sleep hygiene primarily … Read more

“Sleep happens” – it’s time to stop micromanaging your nights, says sleep specialist

When you think about how well you are sleeping, one factor that probably comes into it is the number of hours you’re clocking up each night. All of today’s best sleep trackers report this kind of data. But focusing on these numbers could be doing more harm than good, according to Angela Kondinska, a neuroscientist … Read more

Clock-watching could be killing your sleep – why clocks have no place in the bedroom

You wake up and check the clock – 2am, plenty of time left to fall back to sleep on your best mattress. Then you check again and this time it’s 3am, then 4am, and now you’re just lying there watching the clock tick closer to morning. While monitoring the time may seem like a smart … Read more

World Sleep Day mattress deals: get the best cheap mattress at its lowest ever price

It’s World Sleep Day, and so you’d expect all of the top sleep brands to roll out the biggest discounts on the best mattresses, right? That’s definitely what I’d have expected, and I’m in a position to know about such things; I’ve been writing about mattresses for the past few years and I’m thoroughly well … Read more

Soundcore’s new sleep earbuds promise noise isolation that’ll block out “sawing wood or grinding gravel”

To mark World Sleep Day 2024, Anker‘s Soundcore has announced a new and improved set of sleep earbuds. The Sleep A20 true wireless earbuds are on their way, and come with a slew of improvements over their predecessor (2022’s Sleep A10 earbuds). The brand promises vastly improved noise isolation, longer battery life, and some new … Read more