Archive for July 26th, 2010
More on Sleep
July 26th, 2010
This is a short, follow-up post to our previous article on sleep. As noted, sleep is a vital part of any fitness or wellness program. For athletes, it enables your body to repair muscles, triggers the production of human growth hormone and helps to balance the body’s neuro-muscular response system (which affects things like timing and explosiveness). So, in short, sleep is vital to athletic performance.
Let’s hear from those who have been journaling / posting their nightly hours of sleep. What have you observed? Have you noticed any changes in your performance at the box? What about outside the box? Any effects on hunger / eating?
And for those who aren’t posting their sleep (or their daily eating) … what’s holding you back?
The Firebreather coaching staff just posted a new 8-week challenge to all of us. I strongly recommend that in addition to journaling your daily workouts and meals, you also make one additional journal entry each and every day. Log the number of hours of sleep you got the previous night. Get the most out of your challenge–make it a true learning experience! When it gets right down to it, don’t you really want every advantage you can get to help you (and your team) win?!!!
Contributed by Tin Man Skip
As always, please post your observations, questions, suggestions–and most importantly, your meals–to comments.
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