its been the average for me for years,thing is they say you should be getting 8/9 hours sleep a night,am i not going to make good gains on 5/6 hours?
thing is by the time ive got my kids to settle down,and then got myself ready its around 11pm,now i'm not the sort of person that can just shut off and fall asleep in 5 mins,takes me around an hour to drift off so on average i'l get to sleep around 12pm.i usualy wake around 5/6am,even when i don't set my alarm at weekends.i have to get up for work at 6.30am.
and i never nap in the day.i'm not strugling with my workouts or anything,and feel ok.and making small progress in weight lifted.been at it for 10 months.
so is it realy that important,or am i wasting my time?there's no way i'm gonna get 8/9 hours in.any of you guys/gals get make good progress on this amount of sleep.?
thanks.
hope this hasn't sent you to sleep.
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Thread: 5 to 6 hours sleep,is it enough.
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07-26-2009, 04:37 AM #1
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5 to 6 hours sleep,is it enough.
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The amount of sleep you need is a personal thing. I need 9-10 hours a night, if I get 8/night then, after a couple of days, I start getting grumpy and sleepy and dopey. It doesn't make me happy or bashful or sneezy (luckily!).
As long as you're not tired during the day and you wake up without needing large amounts of caffeine then you're probably OK.
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I'm in the same boat - takes me an hour to fall asleep at best even if I'm tired. I end up with 4-5 hours sleep. So for the past two years I was using ****** CR which helped dramatically and I was getting a good 6-8 hours sleep. But I hate taking prescription drugs - especially that regularly so I tried ZMA. It took a week or two but I have stopped taking ****** entirely and get great sleep now - a good 8-10 hours.
Even with less than 8-10 hours sleep, I don;t think it affected my gain too much. But I feel less beat up if I get more hours sleep.Some people talk about 45lb plates and think of weight training - some people talk about 45lb plates and think of the buffett.
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07-26-2009, 07:21 AM #12
You asked: am i not going to make good gains on 5/6 hours?
Your gains will not be optimal as the last 2-3 hours seems to be where alot of the repair work is done. It is not an all or nothing situation here.
you said: i'm not strugling with my workouts or anything,and feel ok.and making small progress in weight lifted.been at it for 10 months.
Perhaps with more rest you will see faster progress in the next 10 months.
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nice one chodan thanks,someone negged me with the comment (sleep more).well yeah like i never thought of that.with my kids thats nearly impossible,and i gotta go to work early.i was only realy asking if it possible to make good gains on less.
nice to know that some of you guys are making good gains on minimal sleep,and thanks for your input.
i think because i'm new to bodybuilding,maybe i was expecting gains a bit quicker.but i'm def in it for the long haul.
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You have to do the best with what you're given, i.e. the circumstances of your life. For MrsKlayfish and I, 8 hours of sleep a night is not a reality. By time we get home from work, have dinner, spend time with the kids, clean up, prepare for the next day, put the kids to bed, etc...it's already 9:30pm. That's before we even sit down to read a magazine for a few minutes or watch any TV. So we may go to bed around 10:00pm. We get up at 4:20am every morning. That's the only realistic time in the day for us to workout. So 6.5 hours of sleep is our average during the week. On the weekends, we may get 8 hours, as we can sleep until 6:30am, when the kids wake up. So when the opportunity presents itself, we'll try to take a nap on the weekends for about 90 minutes, when the kids are all resting.
Are we tired by the end of the week? Hell yeah. Does it hurt the gains we may get? I guess. But we're doing the best with what we've got.
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07-27-2009, 04:40 AM #22
While it would be nice to get the average of eight hours in of solid sleep, sometimes that isn't possible. I usually get into bed at 11, fall asleep at 11:30, wake up between 5 and 5:30, but sometimes earlier. If I can, I take a nap during my free work periods for an hour; if not, then not. Even if it is supposedly hurting my gains (and I'm not that sure it is) it's something I can't change (at the present); I just do the best I can.
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x2..Good points..It's something that varies from individual to individiual, just like anything else in life.
When i have to start work at 8am every sunday,i am thrown off course or off track if you will and i dont have sufficient time to readjust myself and my natural sleep hour time period pattern and such..So,basically, i wind up getting 5-5-1/2 hours of sleep and this is NOT a good thing.The feeling in the morning where i have to yank myself out of bed is indescribably miserable,and allthough i DO adjust and my head is clear and my body is fine for a good while into my shift , when there is about an hour or so left in my shift , i am thinking of nothing except a relaxing & refreshing shower and a blissfull 3 hour nap once i get done with the shift. ; )
Normally,the other six days of the week where my hours are 5pm till closing,i usually sleep around 9 hours,give or take 10-15 minutes.Sleep is Awesome ! One of the greatest and most blissfull experiences of human life ! LOL. ; )Last edited by thor93; 07-29-2009 at 08:51 PM.
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