Getting good quality sleep is crucial for athletes— and for everyone else. I used to take my sleep for granted: I fell asleep when I had checked everything off my to-do list for the day and woke up for whatever I had planned in the morning. For a lot of my skating career I was actually very sleep deprived because I had so much on my plate. I survived for a while with those bad sleep habits, but it wasn’t until I started to prioritize my sleep that I really started to thrive. There’s two factors to getting good rest: sleeping enough, and sleeping well. The sleeping enough aspect is pretty straightforward (although seldom easy to do), but sleeping well is just as important and often overlooked. To improve my quality of sleep, I changed my pillow from standard memory foam to lagoonsleep’s customizable, soft fill. I swear to you, this pillow is the softest thing I’ve ever slept on. I didn’t even realize what a big difference my pillow made in my sleep until I tried lagoonsleep and not ...