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How many hours of sleep do you get?
 
Do you notice a difference in muscle recovery, fat loss, muscle mass or strength?


Read this study bellow posted by Optimum Nutrition
 
From the dawn of the industrial age, there’s been a gradual reduction in the amount of sleep that people get every day. This is especially the case for full-time workers. A study published in the May edition of the journal Sleep suggests that getting too little sleep is risky while getting too much could be a bad omen.
 
Researchers reviewed 16 studies spanning 25 years and involving more than 1.3 million subjects in Asia, Europe and the U.S. They concluded that people who average less than 6 hours of sleep a night are 12% more likely to die prematurely. Although those who sleep more than 9 hours aren’t at risk the same way, extended slumber might be an indicator of serious illness.
 
True Strength Moment: Sleep also plays a crucial role in muscle recovery. In fact, your muscles do most of their rebuilding after exercise while you’re sleeping. A slowly digesting protein, like micellar casein, enjoyed right before bed makes an excellent night time snack that provides anti-catabolic (reducing the degree of muscle breakdown) support while you slumber
 

I always get at least at least 7-8 hours of sleep.. If i dont my entire day is shot. 
I make it a priority to go to sleep early every night (except on the weekends).
 
It’s a life style change that I have choice. I never go out during the week when I have to get up early. I usually go to bed around 10-10:30.  I truly believe it makes a difference with my training, motivation and fitness goals…
 

I shoot for the eight although with the arrival of the twins its not happening right now.
Thanks
Butch

I’m a pretty bad insomniac and almost never get 8 hours. It probably relates to the fact that I worked the night shift at a grocery store for a long time. I’ve heard that every hour of sleep you get before midnight is like getting two hours after.

Jesterno2” did you know that:   

 ”If you wake up multiple times during the night, the top reason is always a deficiency of Magnesium”
 
Posted by: Gregg Marsh Performance Coaching
 
I guess that is why many people like taking ZMAs to help them sleep better to !!

My biggest problem is that I like to wake up early to run and workout, but I hate going to bed early. I like to stay up and watch my shows, lol!

I usually probably get like 6.5-7 hours of sleep. I do feel kinda worn out most of the time, but with studying and running my own studio and managing clients and still finding time for myself or to spend with my bf, it just seems like I’m always busy. I’m sure I’m probably not getting enough sleep and that contributes, I just wish I had like 4 more hours to work with every day…

Llulko, it’s not necessarily a “waking up frequently” problem so much as a problem actually getting ready to go to bed or falling asleep in the first place. I just never seem to get really tired until really late, like my biological clock just runs a little later than most people’s. I don’t know if my clock got pushed back by working the night shift all those years or if it works like that but that’s what I mean when i say insomnia.

That is an interesting tip though, thanks!

I’m lucky to get 6 hrs a day. Yet I do nap from time to time and especailly on Sunday’s!

I have read/heard/experienced one method of waking up and feeling great despite the amount of sleep you get, ( although this too is very important). People who sleep between 6-8 hours a night actually go through sleeping cycles (5-6 per night) You start off in a drowsy sleep, then ease into a light sleep and then go into a deep sleep, and then the order reverses back to light and then drowsy. When our alarms wake us up each morning, we are between the stages of deep and light sleep. Most of us I am going to assume hit the snooze button multiple times and try to get those 9-10 minutes of extra sleep… this is what makes us drowsy during the morning and for some the entire day. Our bodies either wake themselves up or are woken up by our alarms and our ready for the day ahead. If we try to go back to sleep not only do we screw up our bodies mechanism for waking up, we mess up our sleeping cycles and then a chain reaction occurs that leads to other energy draining effects like less sleep during the night. So what I am getting at is when your body wakes itself up or is woken up by the alarm, roll out of bed, jump in the shower, do whatever else you do to get ready, and you will feel less drowsy.