Monday Feb 28th Pain Update
Well it's been a week, I know just 7 days but I feel almost new. On a regular week with all my trainning and work I was getting around 45 hours of sleep a week. Thats's around 4-5 hours of sleep a night. Last week I slept 8 hours a night, plus a power nap here and there. About 60 hours of sleep last week. I also iced up my body alot, took some Ibuprofin pills, and rubbed some tiger balm on my soar parts. All I got to say is WOW! I actually feel like im recovering, I feel fantastic. I had everything down to key, my diet, my training, my mentality, but my sleep was the missing link to all this. I can finally be motivated to go to the gym and not be scared that my body will be to soar.
Found some good facts about sleeping, helped me alot..
THE NANO-NAP: 10 to 20 seconds. Sleep studies haven’t yet concluded whether there are benefits to these brief intervals, like when you nod off on someone’s shoulder on the train.
THE MICRO-NAP: two to five minutes. Shown to be surprisingly effective at shedding sleepiness.
THE MINI-NAP: five to 20 minutes. Increases alertness, stamina, motor learning, and motor performance.
THE ORIGINAL POWER NAP: 20 minutes. Includes the benefits of the micro and the mini, but additionally improves muscle memory and clears the brain of useless built-up information, which helps with long-term memory (remembering facts, events, and names).
THE LAZY MAN’S NAP: 50 to 90 minutes. Includes slow-wave plus REM sleep; good for improving perceptual processing; also when the system is flooded with human growth hormone, great for repairing bones and muscles.