Missing Sleep is Worse than Missing Training
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The biggest athletes are the ones who recover the fastest. Learning to get the best night of sleep you can is the premiere thing that you can do to help you get fit faster. Missing sleep is worse than missing training. Learn more. |
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Article Summary: · A lack a sleep can put great restriction on your strength and mass gains. · Sleep cycles last for 90 minutes so 7.5-9 hours is a better than 8 hours. · Some medications have long-term side effects resulting in sleep loss. |
You don’t grow in the gym! Have you ever heard that? It is very true and you need to change your entire thinking process about fitness if you did not know that fact. Not being able to get to bed and sleep is a major problem that many athletes have to learn to overcome.
Most of you reading this are thinking that there is some secret special workout that you need to help you recover and grow big. The truth is, the biggest athletes are the ones who recover the fastest. Learning to get the best night of sleep you can is the premiere thing that you can do to help you get fit faster. Missing sleep is worse than missing training.
Missing Sleep Is Worse Than Missing Training.
Sleep is something that you do one third of your life. Unfortunately, most medical doctors receive little to no training in regards to the aspect of sleep. The study of sleep is called somniology, and has really only been mainstream medicine for less than 10 years. Please read this entire article twice and see a specialist, rather than just emailing me and asking how to sleep better.
Lack Of Sleep Leads To Depression
Famous inventors like Thomas Edison have made it possible for light to change our productivity at night. Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Hippocrates, and others were all insomniacs. In their case, the lack of sleep leads to extensive imagination, philosophy, and their inventive nature.
Most people are not so lucky and only become depressed and have no motivation to do much of anything. A lack of sleep often leads many people to a point of psychological depression, cardiovascular disease, digestive problems, gastric reflux, muscular aches, headaches, allergies, irritability, lack of mental ability, loss of lean muscle mass, loss of appetite, and lots of other things which are unappealing.
Screwing up your sleep often starts in the beginning of the day. People eat things that do not agree with them, or things they shouldn’t be eating and that imposes a guilt, which is hard to pass off as we lay our heads down at night. Some people have poor sleeping conditions in the bed room such as; TV’s running, radios, MP3′s, and lots of other distractions to prevent your body from going into normal sleep cycle.
Below is a list of common factors the affect most people who are having difficulty trying to sleep. In some cases it keeps people from getting to sleep, other individuals have difficulty staying asleep. Not having a good night sleep will restrict your body from producing human growth hormone (HGH) and other natural hormones, like thyroxin (that makes you lean).
Common Sleep Stoppers
- Improper Planning
- Uncomfortable Beds And Sheets
- Unexpected Stress
- Normal Stress & Family Stress
- Job Stress
- Money Stress
- Lack Of Sex
- Lack Of Proper Diet
- Lack Of Mental Stability
- Injury
- Pain
- Noise
- Lack Of White Noise
- Drugs (No Not Just The Lack Of Drugs)
- Improper Napping
Sleeping Basics 101
Your body sleeps in 90 minutes sleep cycles, which means that you need to sleep either 4.5, 6, 7.5, or 9 hours. When you are just beginning to sleep, your body is at a very close to consciousness phase, but as you sleep, the process changes and then you will enter deeper and deeper into a subconscious state.
The deepest sleep is called Delta Sleep, and if someone has ever called you on the phone and you do not remember the phone ringing, then you were likely in a delta wave sleep. If your body accidentally wakes up from the alarm clock or you are startled during delta wave sleep, you will likely drag your rear end around all day long. Sometimes a quick 30 minute nap will help you to recover (The Power Nap).
As you sleep through the night, your body produces a “hum,” vibration, or waves during the delta wave sleep. Scientist are not sure how, but this event causes organs to manufacture vital hormones, during the next phase your body mobilizes those hormones and they move into your bloodstream and dance around your body.
The REM phases is the most commonly known phase and that is where the hormones hit your brain and a balancing and checking system starts to evaluate how much delta wave sleep you will need in the next sleep cycle.
A Typical Sleep Cycle For 8 Hours Of Sleep
This is only an example of a typical sleep pattern and everyone requires different amounts of sleep each night to recover. Limiting any particular stage of sleep will produce illness and also affect your recovery. The Stage 3 & 4 is delta wave sleep. Please note that actual sleep time is 7.5 hours not 8 hours.
