What You Can Learn From How Sports Teams Approach Jet Lag And Travel Fatigue

If any sport knows how to navigate the negative effects of international travel it’s Formula 1, whose teams are frequently flying their staff across time zones and need them to be firing on all cylinders as soon as they arrive.

With over 25 years of experience working with elite athletes from Olympians to Formula 1 drivers, performance coach Pete McKnight reveals what we can learn from their approach.

He explains how travel affects our reaction times and decision-making, why your chronotype is key to your travel plan, how being a good traveller can be learned, how sunglasses help in more ways than one and why travel starts long before you leave.

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