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Post by Mystic79 on Mar 26, 2007 5:52:54 GMT -5
With my hot and cold work schedule (getting better than it was, thank God), going out alot with friends, going out with a pretty cool new girl, I have averaged 5 hours of sleep this entire week, but I've managed fine. A few times I get tired but I make it through the day. I wonder if we even require 8 hours a night.
I know for lifting weights it's good to get 8 for recovery, but because I took the week off to rest up I haven't been sleeping that much. I guess I should get into the habit of having more hours to ensure gains? I loving not sleeping though because you get 3 more hours a day to do something! Think about it, if a person sleeps 8 hours a day compared to someone who sleeps 5 hours a day, the 5 hour a day guy will be awake for 82125 in his entire life if he lives to be 75! That's alot of hours to be awake doing stuff.
What's your guys take on this? I might of made a thread like this before like a year ago lol, but I forgot.
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Post by cuts280 on Mar 26, 2007 13:01:36 GMT -5
I guess it's a very personal issue. Some require more than the others. Because of my social life  & work in the past for more than 5 years my sleeping patterns have been more or less about 5-6 hours everyday, being 4 sometimes except for sunday where I have a well deserved sleep of 7 hours. It never really hampered my recovery or gains. Hey on the second note when you are hanging out with a great gal and having a great social life who the hell in the world needs sleep, bro...lol ;D |
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Post by mrky03 on Mar 26, 2007 18:34:18 GMT -5
I personally do not function well on less than 7hrs. sleep on a regular basis. Everybody is different however and as long as you're recovering well and not nodding off at work!
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Post by Hoopie on Mar 26, 2007 20:10:23 GMT -5
thru the week i sleep from 7am to 11:30am-noon. The weekends i get a little more but not much...
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Post by Rich on Mar 27, 2007 8:55:43 GMT -5
Bcause I am a teacher my biological clock has a chance to reset during the summer, when I am not required to be anywhere at any specific time. Consequently, I have made some interesting observations about sleep patterns for adults.
For the first few days after school ends, I sleep in a LOT - maybe 10 - 11 hours each night. This is my body paying off the sleep debt I accrued during the year. After that, I settle into a pattern of a consistent 9 hours of sleep a night, unless I mess around with mother nature.
It's interesting. I get tired enough to go to sleep by around 10:30, and if I don't force myself to stay up, I will sleep until around 7:30 am. You could set a clock to it. However, if I DO force myself to stay up, I get a kick of adrenaline that keeps me up well past when I actually want to go to sleep. Yet I will still wake up around 7:30 - 8:00, and then spend the whole day tired and cranky.
Basically there's a window of time during which my body is prepared to sleep. If I deliberately miss it, my body gives me a "fight or flight" kick of adrenaline to keep me alert. After all, if I'm not sleeping, there must be a bear running after me, right? Or maybe I'm fighting a horde of crusaders ...
The downside is the adrenaline keeps me awake hours after the crusaders are vanquished, but I still need to get up in time to kill a boar for breakfast.
The problem is endemic to our society. Thanks to Benjamin Franklin, we spend too many hours awake after dark, fighting bears by the light of a glass-enclosed campfire. Most people are dangerously sleep deprived, and don't necessarily realize what is causing all of their health/mood problems.
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Post by masterschamp on Mar 27, 2007 9:23:29 GMT -5
I've slept somewhere between 5.5-6.5 hrs a night as long as I can remember, remember, I'm almost 50, and it has not hampered me in any way. I have an extremely busy schedule, as I have posted, and tot his day, energy has never been a problem. In fact, if I sleep longer than that I feel like @#$%..................I truly believe this is another one of those highly individual things that can vary greatly from person to person. Genetics...  My sleep pattern almost mimics my father's exactly!...and he could physically outwork just about anyone I knew up to his 70's!!....interesting! Keith |
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Post by Tim Wescott on Mar 27, 2007 12:42:19 GMT -5
I very saldom sleep more than 5-6 hours.....you`ll get more than enough sleep when you`re dead!! |
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Post by sinnerica on Mar 29, 2007 11:33:58 GMT -5
Right said, Tim. |
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& work in the past for more than 5 years my sleeping patterns have been more or less about 5-6 hours everyday, being 4 sometimes except for sunday where I have a well deserved sleep of 7 hours. It never really hampered my recovery or gains.
My sleep pattern almost mimics my father's exactly!...and he could physically outwork just about anyone I knew up to his 70's!!....interesting!
