Did this study factor in people’s physical activity level and diet?
I’d wager sedentary people get more sleep than active people.
[quote]therajraj wrote:
Did this study factor in people’s physical activity level and diet?
I’d wager sedentary people get more sleep than active people.
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I was thinking the same… however ironic that seems. I mean you would think an active person would require more sleep due to recovery needs.
I sleep 3h per night and I’m so awesome it hurts to think about it.
[quote]setto222 wrote:
[quote]honest_lifter wrote:
Wow, who would have thought that being too busy to sleep would have been a good thing.
My problem is epidemiological studies is that they always leave me asking “why?”. I’m all for correlation but where’s the causation?
Also, can anybody offer any advice as to how you manage to sleep fewer hours? I have trouble getting out of bed with 8 hours of sleep. Can’t imagine 5![/quote]
Stims. I have an alarm that wakes me up to pop two HOT-ROX or take a 5 hour energy. Then I snooze until 20 min later I wake up from the need to void my bowels so to speak and by then im up and alert.
Everytime I read an article about “it’s great 2 not sleep” it’s an author who is “yogamaster” or “indian levitation expert” or “lifehacker”.
“Dave Asprey is a Silicon Valley investor, computer security expert, and entrepreneur who spent 15 years and $250,000 to hack his own biology. He upgraded his brain by >20 IQ points, lowered his biological age, and lost 100 lbs without using calories or exercise.”
He didnt use calories and lost 100lbs? Water-diet?
What I’d like to read is this kind of researches on people who do actually train heavily 4-5x a week.
And not only health hazard but mental clarity also. If I sleep 6h after doing heavy lifting the previous day I’m drowsy as fuck. And I cant imagine it’s healthy to pop 600mg caffeine compared to 2h more sleep.
I use a Zeo sleep tracker every night to track my type of sleep. I will report a couple nights:
Total:7:27
REM:2:49
Light:3:36
Deep:1:02
Wake:0:00
Times Woken:0x
Time to fall asleep:0:16
Total:4:36
REM:0:30
Light:2:43
Deep:1:22
Wake:0:02
Times Woken:1x
Time to fall asleep:0:18
Total:7:55
REM:2:07
Light:4:17
Deep:1:31
Wake:0:00
Times Woken:1x
Time to fall asleep:0:16
Total:6:47
REM:2:31
Light:2:37
Deep:1:39
Wake:0
Times Woken:0x
Time to fall asleep:0:14
Total:7:04
REM:2:14
Light:3:32
Deep:1:18
Wake:0:00
Times Woken:0x
Time to fall asleep:0:14
Total:6:19
REM:2:05
Light:2:51
Deep:1:22
Wake:0:03
Times Woken:2x
Time to fall asleep:0:31 (thinking about the horrible job the painters did on my house)
My point in posting this is I don’t feel significantly tired. Also, my deep sleep is really good, almost no matter how much sleep I get. The graphing shows the deep sleep coming right away.
So when I saw this article I thought they may be on to something with this study.
Yeah no thanks, I feel good when I get my 8-9 hours on a consistent bases with a schedule like that an occasional 4-6 hours is no biggie and I still feel fine. But sleeping less than 8 hours on a regular bases and trying to play catch up on weekends leaves me feeling miserable. I’ll keep my increased chance of death while feeling good thank you. I’d rather live life feeling good than live slightly longer and be miserable the entire time.
Interesting that the author didn’t mention he “sleep-hacks” with the help of Provigil.
It’s basically white-collar adderal.
I wouldn’t recommend following this dumbass sleep regimen unless you were taking something similar. Probably helped a lot in his weight loss without calorie or exercise as well.
Posting write ups like this is not unlike supplement ads that show ripped and humongous motherfuckers without the disclaimer that the individual used some sort of PED to obtain his results.
[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
Interesting that the author didn’t mention he “sleep-hacks” with the help of Provigil.
It’s basically white-collar adderal.
I wouldn’t recommend following this dumbass sleep regimen unless you were taking something similar. Probably helped a lot in his weight loss without calorie or exercise as well.
Posting write ups like this is not unlike supplement ads that show ripped and humongous motherfuckers without the disclaimer that the individual used some sort of PED to obtain his results.
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You are right, I don’t follow this guy. There are actually multiple listings on google:
http://news.discovery.com/human/sleep-seven-hours.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7920197/Seven-hours-sleep-is-the-recipe-for-health.html
Just to show a few.
what about sleep and hypertrophy? Lifters need sleep for recovery.
Thought this was cool
[quote]Gettnitdone wrote:
what about sleep and hypertrophy? Lifters need sleep for recovery.[/quote]
I’m with you on this one. I like to occasionally plan hardcore workouts on Friday just for the fact that I can sleep as long as I want. Sometimes it ends up being 12 hours.
Without 8 hours, I don’t function well without caffeine. I’ll sacrifice a few years of my life because sleep is fucking awesome.
Maybe Kramer had it right on Seinfeld when he tried to mimick Leonardo Da Vinci’s sleep schedule. It was 20 minutes every 3 hours. He figured he would gain 80 extra “days” a year this way.
[quote]MytchBucanan wrote:
Maybe Kramer had it right on Seinfeld when he tried to mimick Leonardo Da Vinci’s sleep schedule. It was 20 minutes every 3 hours. He figured he would gain 80 extra “days” a year this way.[/quote]
It did not end well for him.
[quote]xXSeraphimXx wrote:
[quote]MytchBucanan wrote:
Maybe Kramer had it right on Seinfeld when he tried to mimick Leonardo Da Vinci’s sleep schedule. It was 20 minutes every 3 hours. He figured he would gain 80 extra “days” a year this way.[/quote]
It did not end well for him.[/quote]
Nothing ever worked out for the K man.
Pretty sure most jacked muscular cool people get plenty of sleep.
If I sleep less than 6 hours, I’m a mess the next day. Like, can’t function.
Don’t know how you guys do it, I guess. But I think it’s bad for you. It’s bad for me.
After heavy training days, I sleep like a rock easily 8 hours.