Sleeping question

[viiictor]

Ive read somewhere on these boards that sleeping is where your muscle recovers. So would that mean the more you sleep the better your muscle recovers and the more gains you get from workout?

[Thomas_Uru]

In theory, it's better not to sleep more or less than 8-9 hours a day. There's no proof that sleeping 11 hours a day will help your gains.

Read it somewhere in here.

[loz86]

i go for 8 hours if possible, with a good meal before bed when bulking

[big-muscle-19]

dont sleep for too long though like 12 hours then you'll feel tired and like crap for the rest of the day

[o0hardcore0o]

the important thing is to dont disturb the sleep. A good sleep of 6 hour is better than a 8 hour night and wake up 4 time in the night

[TehMightyDouche]

It must be true; I sleep sometimes and I am exceedingly very strong.

[cellshot]

too much sleep can also be a bad thing.

like, someone already said, if you sleep a whole lot, you'll wake up tired and feeling like ****. you'll also have wasted a good chunk of your day if you're doing 10+ hours, hours that could have been used for other productive things. your body also will go into a catabolic state after X amount of hours sleeping because of lack of incoming nutrients, so eventually it will be detrimental to you.

I'd go or 7-9 hours a night.

[athenafootball]

muscles grow and recover while resting... so it makes sense that sleep is the best time for them to do that. but more than 8-9 hours is bad because your body probably gets too much into a catabolic state

[TBW]

depends if you have any sleeping supps. 7 hours with GABA = very refreshed in the morning.

[dogster126]

dont sleep for too long though like 12 hours then you'll feel tired and like crap for the rest of the day

LOL YA

[Xero Gio]

I can tell you that I slept for 8 hours today... and I feel a lot better than I did the other day, when I slept for 15 hours.....yes, 15...gimme a break, I was tired...Christmas partying (drinking...haha)