Sleep...?

[Anthrax Invasion]

No, the muscle will repair itself regardless.

Though sleep isn't directly related to hypertrophy or strength gains, you can indirectly relate it by looking at it like this: You don't sleep as much as you need to, you get mentally burnt out easier. It becomes a psychological battle. Your immune system eventually weakens. You get irritable. Eventually you miss a workout or perform poorly due to lack of concentration. You lose drive and effort. Your workouts suffer more and more until you finally are back-peddling. Then your lack of sleep causes you to miss key signs of an obvious affair going on between your best friend and wife while you were watching the kids while she went out for a "cup of coffee" in which the coffee was said friend's junk and the 'cup of' clearly meant 'mouthful of', until one day your neighbor reveals your ignorance and you have no choice but to go on a brutal rampage, slaughtering innocent children and lesbians, winding up with no custody of your precious offspring, losing respect of people and lesbians (who are clearly a different species) everywhere, and sitting in jail waiting for the next guy to come and serve you up some cream of beef stew, all the while losing even more sleep.

It's a vicious cycle.

(Note, the above was a display of a lack of sleep on my part. Don't be me.)

 

[coolcolj]

sleep recharges the CNS

low CNS juice = crappy muscular contraction

I know about all too well

 

[DZLS]

i don't think this is going to be a lack of sleep issue...

my split is going to be M,T, TH, Sat... so i will not be getting up early on W, F, or Sun...

the hardest part for me is getting out of bed, considering i've worked 2nd shift for about 4 years now, and am used to not getting up until after 10:00AM on most days...

thanks for all the feedback fellas...

 

[markshark]

sleep recharges the CNS

low CNS juice = crappy muscular contraction

I know about all too well

unless u take lunesta or ambien to sleep like i do everynight. i dont think ive gotten any REM sleep since 2003. my lifting is so fucked up from lack of sleep ill do like chest one day and then not lift for 5 straight days because it takes forever to recover with no sleep.

 

[*MissFit*]

its a myth that everyone requires 8hrs.. there is not a set point number of hours we all need to regenrate..

 

[markshark]

its a myth that everyone requires 8hrs.. there is not a set point number of hours we all need to regenrate..

thank you. im sick of everyone telling me "theres no point in working out if u dont get 8-17 hours a night". yeah jay cutler does it, because the only other hobby he has is color coordinating his thongs. i know guys that sleep like 4-5 hours a night and are bigger and more muscular than i could ever hope to be if i slept 10 hours a night. not that sleeping more would be a bad thing, it would probably help, but i wouldnt think its a necessity every night.

 

[NorgePrecision]

I can sleep anytime of the day or night. I find myself most awake between 12 and 3 AM. I find myself most sleepy between 9 and 12 AM I take naps throughout the day. I usually get around 6 hours of sleep and then nap for at least an hour or 2. On the weekends I've been known to sleep 14 hours without waking up...gifted I tell you. In fact, when my parents brought me home from the hospital when I was born I slept all through that night and well into the next morning. They thought something was wrong with me. I was an excellent baby because I never woke up in the middle of the night...at all.

 

[kiosk]

its a myth that everyone requires 8hrs.. there is not a set point number of hours we all need to regenrate..

yup...there is two things about sleep,

quality = deep delta sleep is the most rejuvenating one period, this is where your body recovers and testosterone is released, the one kind a BBer needs. 4 hours of deep delta sleep beats 8-9 hours of tossing and turning.

consistency = cant sleep one night and be all up night another, this will eventually catch up to you.

 

[*MissFit*]

yup...there is two things about sleep,

quality = deep delta sleep is the most rejuvenating one period, this is where your body recovers and testosterone is released, the one kind a BBer needs. 4 hours of deep delta sleep beats 8-9 hours of tossing and turning.

consistency = cant sleep one night and be all up night another, this will eventually catch up to you.

I have gotten this information straight from a neurologist whose a specialist in sleep I have a sleep disorder where for the most part I actually am unable to sleep more than four hours of sleep at a time. Even with only being able to do this I seem to be fine and my body is pretty good for being 30.

Yes if you can sleep 8 hours.. go ahead, but no it’s not necessary.

 

[DZLS]

I'd say your body is more than "fine" for being 30...