How much sleep do you get?

[PeterDolan]

How much sleep does everyone get?

What impacts your sleep patterns/length of sleep?

Do you still work out if you don't get enough?

[Mrbig]

can always catch up on sleep lol why is it when people are on holiday they survive on stuff all sleep??? haha for me atleast 5-6 hours is enough I get more if I can

[PeterDolan]

can always catch up on sleep

I usually sleep twice a day

why is it when people are on holiday they survive on stuff all sleep???

Because it's more exciting than going to work??? haha

[Cameron_R]

How much sleep does everyone get?

average of 8 hrs, but I like 9

What impacts your sleep patterns/length of sleep?

life! and other campers/divers staying at the same place as me on weekends who snore :phear:

Do you still work out if you don't get enough?

yes, but only to a point. If I only get 4 hrs sleep and am jet lagged (as an extreme example) then I'll go home after work and get to bed early rather than work out.

[Mrbig]

haha find a job you enjoy and never work another day lol

[PeterDolan]

haha find a job you enjoy and never work another day lol

In a perfect world...

[Mrbig]

haha find a job you enjoy and never work another day lol

In a perfect world...

mate you love the gym why not own your own gym or do what your passionate about you only live once do what you want to

[PeterDolan]

haha find a job you enjoy and never work another day lol

In a perfect world...

mate you love the gym why not own your own gym or do what your passionate about you only live once do what you want to

Don't have the dollars for that mate

[Cameron_R]

In a perfect world...

mate you love the gym why not own your own gym or do what your passionate about you only live once do what you want to

Don't have the dollars for that mate

AND if you do, it will stop being a passion/hobby, and turn in to a job and you'll start hating it. You won't get to work out all the time. You'll spend your time dealing with angry customers, fixing broken equipment, cleaning, and stressing about paying the bills.

[PeterDolan]

mate you love the gym why not own your own gym or do what your passionate about you only live once do what you want to

Don't have the dollars for that mate

AND if you do, it will stop being a passion/hobby, and turn in to a job and you'll start hating it. You won't get to work out all the time. You'll spend your time dealing with angry customers, fixing broken equipment, cleaning, and stressing about paying the bills.

Probably right haha anyway, back to my original quaestion

[startinfromscratch]

sleep is the biggest impact on my training, period. for me, a late start is 5am, other days is 3am. using stimulants can help, but nothing can replace sleep. my performance fluctuates heaps depending on my shifts and sleep.

i get between 4-6 hours of broken sleep on worknights, and it takes its toll as the week goes on.

moral - dont be a baker.....

[mike27]

8 hrs min for me

i try and get 9hrs sleep each night

now im finsihed work for 3-4months i can really concentrate on 9hrs sleep every single night but also in bed by 9pm reading each night, plan on waking up at 8am each day

having regular sleep makes the world of difference and where most growth and repair happens

[crazyfacials]

I aim for 8 for normally get 5-7, sometimes less when I am oncall and get stupid calls during the night (and if they're for dumb reason (user error) then I get even more pissed off and can't back back to sleep lol) )

however I still will workout even if I didn't get enough sleep, will have an early night though

[Andy2010]

I always get 8, never less.. usually 9. I plan everything around sleep / food / training, didnt used to, it was party mode for years! Any less and my workout suffer, especially now im older (40) and trying to put on size at this age naturally is no easy task!!

[Gym rat]

I go for eight to nine hours sleep but when I am in recovery mode from the sevens I go for 9 and half hours sleep also when my cat wakes up at some strange like two or three in morning it dose have effect on my training by the end of the week I feel grumpy or :madman:

[drizzt]

I love to sleep! But because of the length of my Sheiko workouts, I've had to start work earlier so I can take an extended lunch break. I used to get up just before 8, meaning I could get to sleep comfortably around midnight and still get 8 hours.

Now I wake up shortly after 6, and get into work about 7.... but haven't quite been disciplined enough to get to bed earlier, so have been getting between 6-7 hours for the past month or so.

Oddly, I feel I have more energy in the mornings than I did when I slept longer, and my workouts haven't suffered at all from the shorter sleep periods. When I used to get between 8-9 hours sleep a night, I'd be really sluggish getting out of bed, and set the alarm so that I had just enough time to prep and run out the door for the bus. I'd also start hitting the wall around 3pm, and getting incredibly tired at my desk + nodding off on the way home. Now I'm pretty alert almost straight after waking, more than an hour earlier than I used to wake up (and the shift in work hours happened around daylight savings, too), and don't get hit as hard with the tiredness in the afternoons.

This probably has a lot to do with my diet at the moment (IF) and the meal timings surrounding it, but I find it interesting how I don't rely on sleep as much anymore :think:

[Mrbig]

im curious do any of you guys who train at night or have late meals have trouble getting to sleep??

[knock knock]

Sometimes after a big night training session I don't want to sleep, just relax and enjoy the endorphine buzz. Probalby could sleep if I tried though.

[lightscribe]

moral - dont be a baker.....

Bro. you've been bitching about ur job for the last year. :nod:

[mike27]

im a chef, i know how it is

changing careers now tho

[lightscribe]

power naps in the arvo for evening leg training.

[Grover]

6 hours average, have catch up naps sat sun arvo if lucky

train mid morning most days so plenty of energy as have had 2 meals by then.

[justhell]

6 hours sleep normaly,sometimes less.

weekends i get 8 hours sleep,so thats a sleep in for me.

weeknights i go to bed 11.30ish but on fri sat night,im sleeping about 10ish.

i love to sleep,but its hard when your married with children.

[Ronin]

i love to sleep,but its hard when your married with children.

It's not always a picnic when you're non-married with children

[Cameron_R]

i love to sleep,but its hard when your married with children.

It's not always a picnic when you're non-married with children

Or when your landlord's daughter brings her boyfriend home at about 3am and has a loud :kiss: session in her bedroom which is directly above yours.