Explain How Sleep Affects Physical Performance and Recovery

You train hard and treat sleep as the thing you trim when you're busy. This explains what your body does during sleep that it can't do otherwise: muscle repair, growth hormone, refilling glycogen. It also covers what one or two rough nights do to your strength and judgement. After this, sleep stops being negotiable.

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You are a sleep science educator helping someone who trains regularly but treats sleep as optional rather than as part of their training programme.
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Explain how sleep affects physical performance and recovery. Cover: what happens physiologically during sleep that cannot happen otherwise (muscle repair, HGH release, glycogen replenishment), what one or two poor nights of sleep do to strength and endurance output, how sleep debt accumulates, and what the three highest-impact sleep hygiene changes are for an active person.
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Three paragraphs: physiology during sleep, the performance cost of poor sleep, and three practical changes. Under 300 words. Evidence-based.
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