[quote]Miserere wrote:
Here’s something else for you guys to discuss:
When I switched to a low-carb, high-fat diet I found I slept better and needed fewer hours. Anybody else noticed this?[/quote]
Yes
I get 5-6 hrs. sleep during days I have to go into work. On off days I let my body decide how much sleep is required (no alarm clocks). Also, short naps seem to help in recovery.
Sleep debt is actually a valid concept. However, it only take a single night of sleeping until you wake naturally to wipe it out.
[quote]Miserere wrote:
Here’s something else for you guys to discuss:
When I switched to a low-carb, high-fat diet I found I slept better and needed fewer hours. Anybody else noticed this?[/quote]
I found I fell asleep easier, but then I wake up earlier. I usually sleep like 2 hours, wake up, eat something small and sleep another couple hours. I’m fine like that. Once in a while I’ll fall asleep before midnight and wake up at like 5 or 6 when I’m up for the day, but not very often.
What’s funny is the people I know who sleep alot are many times bleary eyed and yawning all day. Go figger.
[quote]Coldiron wrote:
I get 5-6 hrs. sleep during days I have to go into work. On off days I let my body decide how much sleep is required (no alarm clocks). Also, short naps seem to help in recovery.[/quote]
I don’t consciously remember owning an alarm clock, never needed one. I am not bragging as this surely isn’t some kind of skill or anything. It’s just how it is for me. Don’t ask me how, but if I know I have to be up especially early for something I’ll wake up in time 99 times out of 100.
As far as the original question of “how important is sleep” there can’t be any doubt that getting enough is vital to a whole host of mental and physical functions it’s just that “enough” is defined by the individual and I will also say that probably a whole lotta folks do need more than they get.
[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
I usually sleep like 2 hours, wake up, eat something small and sleep another couple hours. I’m fine like that. Once in a while I’ll fall asleep before midnight and wake up at like 5 or 6 when I’m up for the day, but not very often.[/quote]
I have always been jealous of people like you. The ability to not need much sleep is a “superpower” I always wanted.
If I only get 6 hours, I literally feel sick the next day - my stomach will hurt and my eyes will burn. If I get 7 hours, I’m fine. But I prefer 10 or more.
[quote]CaliforniaLaw wrote:
Tiribulus wrote:
I usually sleep like 2 hours, wake up, eat something small and sleep another couple hours. I’m fine like that. Once in a while I’ll fall asleep before midnight and wake up at like 5 or 6 when I’m up for the day, but not very often.
I have always been jealous of people like you. The ability to not need much sleep is a “superpower” I always wanted.
If I only get 6 hours, I literally feel sick the next day - my stomach will hurt and my eyes will burn. If I get 7 hours, I’m fine. But I prefer 10 or more.
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I don’t know how super I am =], but it does have it’s advantages. I don’t know what I’d do if I had to lose 8-10 hours of every day to total downtime. I don’t mean that to sound the wrong way because people do need sleep, but aside from biological necessity absolutely nothing gets done.
In planning progress focusing on sleep is very underated. Too bad I learned this at 29 instead of 21, although at 21 nothing would’ve kept me sleeping since all I thought about was girls when I was outside of the gym.
[quote]CaliforniaLaw wrote:
Tiribulus wrote:
I usually sleep like 2 hours, wake up, eat something small and sleep another couple hours. I’m fine like that. Once in a while I’ll fall asleep before midnight and wake up at like 5 or 6 when I’m up for the day, but not very often.
I have always been jealous of people like you. The ability to not need much sleep is a “superpower” I always wanted.
If I only get 6 hours, I literally feel sick the next day - my stomach will hurt and my eyes will burn. If I get 7 hours, I’m fine. But I prefer 10 or more.
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I’m right there with ya buddy. I like to get 8-10 hours of sleep. Otherwise I feel shitty (I also have insomnia-using sleeping pills for that).
[quote]keaster wrote:
I’m right there with ya buddy. I like to get 8-10 hours of sleep. Otherwise I feel shitty (I also have insomnia-using sleeping pills for that).
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I do the whole pill thing too, ambien, unison, and diphenhydramine hcl. After tossing and turning around in bed till 3:00AM for years I said enough.
I like to get 8-10 hours a night but I usually get an interrupted 6-7. My alarm, set to 8:30, has only woken me up twice this year since I usually pop out of bed around 6:00AM. This happens even if I go to bed at 2:00 AM. In the rare instance when I do get more sleep, 8hrs and up, I feel great.
[quote]Hagar wrote:
keaster wrote:
I’m right there with ya buddy. I like to get 8-10 hours of sleep. Otherwise I feel shitty (I also have insomnia-using sleeping pills for that).
I do the whole pill thing too, ambien, unison, and diphenhydramine hcl. After tossing and turning around in bed till 3:00AM for years I said enough.
I like to get 8-10 hours a night but I usually get an interrupted 6-7. My alarm, set to 8:30, has only woken me up twice this year since I usually pop out of bed around 6:00AM. This happens even if I go to bed at 2:00 AM. In the rare instance when I do get more sleep, 8hrs and up, I feel great. [/quote]
Be happy, you can mostlikely get to wherever you have to get to on time. Periods of short rest are not that bad either, but try when you can to just go to bed earlier instead of sleeping later. It messes with your energy alot more when you mess up what time you wake up, then what time you go to bed.
There was an article in New Scientist last yeah at some point, saying that lack of sleep makes your body more prone to hanging on to fat.
This really shouldn’t be too surprising. Football is his job, it’s how he feeds his family. And most importantly he has the time. But 14 hrs is a lot to sleep.
I get 8-10 depending on how tired i am and if i fall asleep before or after midnight.
[quote]Hagar wrote:
<<< In the rare instance when I do get more sleep, 8hrs and up, I feel great. [/quote]
I gotta tell ya. On the days I do sleep longer I am more tired. I have no idea why.
Right now I’m not doing much and sleeping 9-10 hours a night. At college averaged 7 and didn’t like it, though there was a period of a month when I had three fuck-buddies and probably slept an average of 4-5 hours a night/day and I was tired all the fucking time and it definitely hurt my gym progress (and I think I was overtraining anyway).
I’ll be in grad school next school year so I’ll probably get about 6 hours a night regularly if I want to get everything done that I gotta get done. Fuck…
I wonder how much it matters for physical recovery. It definitely hurts my concentration. Maybe I should invest in meth.