08 Dr. Chris Winter, MD - The Unbreakable Bond Between Sleep and Performance

Purple Patch Podcast

Matt Dixon

Humanpotential, Nutrition, Education, Empower, Fitness, Executive, Coach, Strengthtraining, Purplepatch, Sleep, Cycling, Performance, Running, Recovery, Health & Fitness, Ironman, Swimming, Timemanagement, Triathlon, Meditation, Yoga

4.8 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

“Sleep isn’t sexy, but it is a performance enhancer, and the wise leverage it to their advantage.” - Dr. Chris Winter, MD

Dubbed "The Sleep Whisperer" by Arianna Huffington, Dr. Chris Winter, MD, is the medical director of the Charlottesville Neurology and Sleep Medicine in Virginia and also one of the country's leading sleep researchers. When he is not seeing patients in his private clinic, he is often traveling across time zones to work with professional basketball, baseball, and hockey teams on the undeniable bond between sleep and performance.

His new book, The Sleep Solution: Why Your Sleep Is Broken and How To Fix It will help you understand your own sleep issues and properly incorporate sleep and napping into your life. Skipping sleep shouldn’t be viewed as toughness or a badge of honor, but instead, a performance limiter.

In this conversation with Matt Dixon, Dr. Winter explains:

The definitions of both good and poor sleep
Why should you buy into sleep as performance enhancement
The long-term repercussions of poor sleep habits
And, How to set up an approach to sleep that works for you

If you think quality sleep has no bearing on your performance in life or sport, think again. "Doing Well" and simply "Being Able to Do" are two different things. Both Matt and Dr. Winter want you to do well. In fact, they want you to be great and an optimized life includes quality sleep.

We’re giving away a free copy of Dr. Winter’s book The Sleep Solution: Why Your Sleep is Broken and How to Fix It (along with a copy of Matt’s Fast Track Triathlete)

Here’s How to Win:

Send us an Email: [email protected] (Subject Line: Sleepy) and in 50 words or less, give us your #1 tip for quality sleep

:00-:20 Recorded Intro

:20-1:30 Matt's Weekly Welcome

1:30-4:35 Word of the Week: Meditation (It's not just for the hippie trippy folks anymore)

4:40 Matt's conversation with Dr. Chris Winter, MD

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0:00.0	I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere integrate sport into life.
0:20.5	All right guys, welcome once again to another episode of the Purple Patch podcast, and as ever,
0:25.7	I'm your host Matt Dixon, and today we've got a goodie.
0:29.3	It fits under the umbrella or the pillar of recovery, but we're going to focus in on sleep.
0:36.0	We're joined today by Dr. Chris Winter, who
0:38.9	Arianna Huffington labeled him the sleep whisperer. What more can you ask for? I'm going to save
0:44.5	Chris's bio for when I introduce him, but it's best for you to know that he's worked with a broad
0:49.5	range of clients from some of the best known professional athletes in basketball, baseball and hockey,
0:55.4	many of the world's leading CEOs, and of course his patients who have clinical needs for
1:00.0	intervention in sleep. He's a neurologist with a focus and lens on performance as it applies for
1:06.5	sleep. This is a really timely conversation. After all, sleep is a hot topic. People are actually working out that skipping sleep shouldn't be viewed as toughness or a badge of honor, but instead a performance limiter. But what does that mean? Well, today we explore the unbreakable bond between proper sleep and performance improvements.
1:29.9	Before we get into that, let's hear that jingle.
1:34.4	We like the way he thinks, serious with a wink.
1:36.5	Let's open the book.
1:38.2	It's time to take a peek.
1:43.7	It's the Dixenary Word of the Week. Yes, indeed, word of the week. And this week, it is meditation. Yes, I know that magic word, very trendy at the moment, and it used to be a little hippie-dippy, and I'm sure that many of you guys still dismiss it. Most due to unfamiliarity, but there is now little doubt that meditation
2:04.1	is an ever-emerging tool in a performance-driven mindset. In fact, I encourage you to listen
2:10.1	later on to one of Chris Winter's quick-fire question responses around daily energy. If he's talking
2:15.9	about meditation as a sleep expert, I think we ought to
2:19.1	listen. The paradigm shift that's occurring around that meditation subject is in fact really
2:25.4	aligning with the more global shift from isolated areas of performance, work, sport, health,
2:32.2	to that new concept of the optimized self. And I think that meditation can help
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