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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Can't Sleep? Who Cares - Go get it.
« on: June 25, 2009, 11:22:58 pm »damn you reply quick. In the notes that will come with my program builder I talk about sleep and recovery quite a lot. For those who train but negelct making the effort to get regular quality sleep - they are just needlessly short circuiting their gains. I did an experiment with some of the kids I work with who play Aussie Rules where for 2 weeks they agreed to go to bed at a time that allowed them to be in bed for at least 8.5 hours per night (1/2 hour to drift off etc). Their results in those two weeks were nothing short of amazing. Their quality of training was great, their strength went up on just about everything, they just improved stupidly. Then I think the latest version of Grand Theft Auto came out and they decided that the early nights had to stop. There is just no convincing some people.
JW
haha @ video games sucking them back into "the weak".
ya man.. having a normal sleep schedule with ~8 hours sleep is so important.. ~9+ hours can actually be worse on performance than 6 hours or so, from my experience.. i remember reading a study that said, people who slept on average 9+ hours had more risk for brain disorders, and people who slept on average <=6 hours had higher risk of cardiac problems.
i pretty much get 8 hours sleep every night.. but my mind is so wrestless when im thinking about PR'n/competing, that ive always had problems going to sleep pre-competition night.. it used to just eat at me so bad.. but recently ive realize that even though i might "feel tired", im not actually tired.. i still perform "optimally", even with 0 sleep, considering i've pr'd in jumps with no sleep.. who knows i might have been able to get up a little higher if i had slept right.
peace
