Sleep is an essential part of our daily rhythm, and for athletes, it is a crucial component of recovery and overall training. Insufficient or poor-quality sleep quickly impacts the quality of training and overall alertness. Sleep can also be improved, and this article offers some nutritional tips to help enhance your sleep.

As ProXCskiing.com has written before, there are so many pieces to the training puzzle. To be a strong long-distance skier, it is necessary to organize training sessions, recovery, nutrition, and mental training. But one element is underrated too often: sleep. We talked to some elite long-distance skiers to understand the value of sleeping in their daily routine.