how many of you really sleep the 8-10 hours your suppost to?........

**outflex** · 03-31-2002, 09:04 AM

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**Big H** · 03-31-2002, 09:09 AM

Anyone who is serious about bodybuilding and making the ultimate gains, should sleep, in my opinion, at least 8 hours.. Keep in mind GH is released when you sleep, plus your muscles get a chance to recover. So anyone who doesn't take advantage of this oppurtunity to give the muscles a much needed rest is only hurting himself.

**BB is 4 life :)** · 03-31-2002, 09:15 AM

i slept for 12 hours last nite 4 sum random reason !!!!!!!!!!!!

12 hours !!!!! i woke up at 2 in the evening

**DYnomyte001** · 03-31-2002, 09:18 AM

I even take zma and sometimes I can only sleep 7 hours ... most of my sleep is usually like get up once or twice a night , lay in bed for awhile fall asleep , wake up fall asleep and so on. Do you think I'm getting the full 8 hours of sleep?

**2Rude4MyOwnGood** · 03-31-2002, 09:20 AM

i usually pop a melatonin and im out for 7.5-8 hours, that stuff works great

**cramron** · 03-31-2002, 09:38 AM

hey your body goes through many pocesses of sleep like rem and all that crap, last night i slept for 5 hours and woke up on my couch, there was food sitting by me, and i ate it and then went back to bed, i was up for about 5 minutes, and then right back to bed for about 4 more hours, does this mean that i didnt get my full sleep? cause i got around 9 hours of sleep but i didnt make it through the whole process all at once

**Big H** · 03-31-2002, 09:44 AM

Originally posted by DYnomyte001
I even take zma and sometimes I can only sleep 7 hours ... most of my sleep is usually like get up once or twice a night , lay in bed for awhile fall asleep , wake up fall asleep and so on. Do you think I'm getting the full 8 hours of sleep?

I think you answerd your own question. You weren't asleep, you were resting.. Henceforth, you did not achieve optimal results...

**Jean Schernoff** · 03-31-2002, 04:46 PM

You're in a "full" sleep from non-REM 3 to Rem 5...
Dynomyte, you were in quite wakefullness and only been through stages 1 and 2. Read that article from John Gunns.

I took classes about sleep, and forgot it all....

**DYnomyte001** · 03-31-2002, 04:58 PM

Actually Jean , I have a good ability to remember my dreams. And everytime I'd wake up I remembered the dream, and you can only dream at the end of your 4th stage and the entire 5th stage.

**Jean Schernoff** · 03-31-2002, 05:06 PM

Then you've probably been through hypnic jerk (sp?), which wakes you up.
Oh, ok, that clears up something for me. I didn't estimate the time you were sleeping per period.

**SteveTx** · 03-31-2002, 05:56 PM

my average is 8 hours a night. Though sometimes I get 9...which feels very good after a heavy leg day.

**BiG RED HH** · 03-31-2002, 07:27 PM

Usually i get about 7-9 hours of sleep. Sometimes less, sometimes more.

I always remember my dreams, always. Im also a very light sleeper.

br

**Awais** · 03-31-2002, 07:30 PM

i sleep for atleast a 9 .... usually 10 hours.

**SDAthlete** · 03-31-2002, 09:19 PM

say u sleep about 7 hrs a nite, which i do....how will that affect ure gains compared to a person who sleeps 10??

peace
shaun

**irpker** · 03-31-2002, 09:20 PM

hehe, i have to wake up 6:30am for my school weeks and 7:30am for my work weeks, and for some reason, i can't sleep before 12:30am on week nights. I will get tired some times around like 8:30 or 9pm, but i don't want to sleep then because my body will think it's a nap and wake up at like 1am adn totally mess me up and i'll be tired all day. That's my experience with sleep.

However, i can sleep for like 6 hours, and not feel lethargic like i do on school and work weeks, on my vacation days such as now~ I woke up just in time to watch the Olympia on T.V. Hehe, Coleman looked bad but his back and posing were better over-all.
Also, whoever judges the posing rounds must play favorites or something because i don't see how good posers like Kamali can get rated so high.

**tankus** · 03-31-2002, 09:22 PM

im in a pattern right now were i dont get tired untill seriously 6 am...it sucks

**AsianInvasion** · 03-31-2002, 09:38 PM

Originally posted by irpker
hehe, i have to wake up 6:30am for my school weeks and 7:30am for my work weeks, and for some reason, i can't sleep before 12:30am on week nights. I will get tired some times around like 8:30 or 9pm, but i don't want to sleep then because my body will think it's a nap and wake up at like 1am adn totally mess me up and i'll be tired all day. That's my experience with sleep.

However, i can sleep for like 6 hours, and not feel lethargic like i do on school and work weeks, on my vacation days such as now~ I woke up just in time to watch the Olympia on T.V. Hehe, Coleman looked bad but his back and posing were better over-all.
Also, whoever judges the posing rounds must play favorites or something because i don't see how good posers like Kamali can get rated so high.

Ok first off, u didnt watch ****, u watched a 20 sec clip of each routine, and not even all of the competitors. The T.v. didnt show barely anything. I saw the whole thing on the web broadcast, and yes, Kamali was good, but his posing did not accentuate any of his muscles

**Fit For Life** · 04-01-2002, 11:57 AM

Originally posted by Awais
i sleep for atleast a 9 .... usually 10 hours.

Me too. On Tues and Thurs 9hrs. On M, W, F... 10hrs.

Last night I pulled about 11.

fit

**Oxandralone** · 04-01-2002, 01:34 PM

I never sleep for longer than 7hrs a night, i just cant fit everything in, i work long shifts at my gym, i have to train and it gets worse when im in uni. Then you have the **** fests in the evening and morning so that takes off another hr or 2 at least.

Ox

**Jean Schernoff** · 04-01-2002, 01:35 PM

For me 5 hours is enough.

**Fit For Life** · 04-01-2002, 01:45 PM

Originally posted by Jean Schernoff
For me 5 hours is enough.

Actually you get 5hrs, but 5hrs isn't enough. I did a lot of research on sleep because I had to give a 3 or 4 min speech one time on it, and studies show a big difference as to when people get 8, and people get a lot less.

fit

**Jean Schernoff** · 04-01-2002, 01:48 PM

Fit For Life,
You don't understand one thing. Not all people are the same. I have the kind of body that requires small amount of sleep. And I also have noticed that my recovery process takes diminutive amount of time.

Everybody is different.

**Fit For Life** · 04-01-2002, 01:59 PM

Yes, everyone is different, but you can't say 5hrs all the time is good enough, or that 3hrs is good enough. Research is done for a certain reason, and by everything from the NSF, to people like Carksadon at the University of Brown, and others all seem to agree that there is a point where so many hours is not enough.

Just because a person may go to bed at 2am, and then feel refreshed at say 7am means nothing.

I think that for you an extra 3-4hrs would do wonders. You may not notice, but some people do. Thing is, we think we are 110% ready to go when we are not. Some people say all they need is 4-5hrs, and that is it, but what tey don't understand is that they haven't slept 8-10hrs like some people have. They get used to 5hrs, and then convince themselves that 5hrs is enough no matter what. Take a person who sleeps 5hrs, get themn to sleep 8-10 for months, and I promise they. and people around them will notice a difference.

fit

**gutentag** · 05-13-2002, 11:55 AM

i'm trying to sleep for longer then 7 hours...but its hard when your parens go to bed late....only chance i get to jack off >-(

**Awais** · 05-13-2002, 11:57 AM

i follow wat king kamali says

10 hours

sometimes 9 but usually 10

**gutentag** · 05-13-2002, 12:09 PM

can someone highlight the key reasons for why sleeping is very important.
Why would 9-10 hours be better then 7 hours
I just want the real facts

peace

**Lionheart** · 05-13-2002, 12:22 PM

I'm kind of like Jean I guess if I sleep 5 or 6 hours I'm refreshed and totally energized for the day, but If I sleep like 9 I'm so sluggish and tired feeling the rest of the day.

**BodybuildingKid** · 05-13-2002, 12:23 PM

i sleep 8-9 hours on off-days

and about 10 hours on a workout day

**BodybuildingKid** · 05-13-2002, 12:24 PM

Originally posted by gutentag
can someone highlight the key reasons for why sleeping is very important.
Why would 9-10 hours be better then 7 hours
I just want the real facts

peace

Everybody is different, some people need more sleep some people don't

thats all you really need to know.

**cramron** · 05-13-2002, 12:46 PM

if i get less than 7 hours of sleep, i can actually feel slightly weak the next day, also sometimes, i get weird muscular aches in upper quads and forearms, for some reason, these aches only happen when i dont get enough sleep

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