Whether it is strength and conditioning or nutrition or, in this case, sleep, the Seahawks are striving to be cutting edge and, to borrow a phrase from Macdonald, chase edges wherever they can to find competitive advantages.
"Sleep is a weapon," said Mah, a sleep physician and performance expert who works with the Seahawks year-round. "It is a highly underutilized, under leveraged area of performance enhancement. If you're willing to do everything it takes to make yourself the best athlete possible, you'll see these benefits, but you have to give the time and energy to it, just like you do every aspect of your training. If you're not willing to do it, I will tell you that the guy next to you is going to, so use it to your advantage."
She'll be back next month to meet with second and third-year players as they continue to build on what Seahawks vice president of health and player performance Sam Ramsden refers to as the team's sleep curriculum.
That curriculum includes not only Mah and Ramsden helping lead the way, but also a multifaceted, interdepartmental task force, aka, the sleep team, made up of director of performance nutrition Andrea Vanderwoude, assistant performance dietitian Samantha Clark, assistant strength and conditioning coach Thomas Garcia, director of personnel development Lamar "Soup" Campbell, and assistant athletic trainer Mackenzie Marques. Those five employees spanning multiple departments act as the boots on the ground, so to speak, for the sleep program when Dr. Mah isn't with the team.
https://www.seahawks.com/news/for-seahawks-chasing-edges-includes-comprehensive-sleep-program
"Sleep is a weapon," said Mah, a sleep physician and performance expert who works with the Seahawks year-round. "It is a highly underutilized, under leveraged area of performance enhancement. If you're willing to do everything it takes to make yourself the best athlete possible, you'll see these benefits, but you have to give the time and energy to it, just like you do every aspect of your training. If you're not willing to do it, I will tell you that the guy next to you is going to, so use it to your advantage."
She'll be back next month to meet with second and third-year players as they continue to build on what Seahawks vice president of health and player performance Sam Ramsden refers to as the team's sleep curriculum.
That curriculum includes not only Mah and Ramsden helping lead the way, but also a multifaceted, interdepartmental task force, aka, the sleep team, made up of director of performance nutrition Andrea Vanderwoude, assistant performance dietitian Samantha Clark, assistant strength and conditioning coach Thomas Garcia, director of personnel development Lamar "Soup" Campbell, and assistant athletic trainer Mackenzie Marques. Those five employees spanning multiple departments act as the boots on the ground, so to speak, for the sleep program when Dr. Mah isn't with the team.
https://www.seahawks.com/news/for-seahawks-chasing-edges-includes-comprehensive-sleep-program
