How much sleep does everyone get?

ChocolateClen

ChocolateClen

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Just curious because we all know rest is nessesary for gains. I average 5 hours 42 min, tho at the moment it's going up slightly but I fear that trend will be coming to an end with anatomy and long night study sessions.
 
I get 8-9 hours of sleep in. Over weekends I get 10. I'm basically a koala.
 
I usually get about 6-7 hours of sleep. If I'm exhausted and have a chance to sleep in I'm lucky to stay asleep for 8 hours. I can nap easily but anything more than a half hour catnap keeps me up all night restless.
 
I aim for 7 hours, prefer to have 8 but generally during the week I get 6.5 to 7 as awake by 5:15-5:30 to train at 5:45-6:00
 
I average about 6 1/2 hours a night, would love to get 8 but just not enough hours in a day. I do manage to get about an hour nap in on the weekends.......I love naps!!
 
During the week anywhere from 6.5-8 and during the weekend 8-12 usually lol I have the worst possible time trying to wake up and get out of bed.
 
Little to none because a 1.5yr old likes to keep us up.

Seriously though, probably 5-6hrs of broken sleep
 
Depends on how busy work is. Sometimes a 2 hour nap in the conference room on a stack of medical records or depo transcripts.
Others 12-14 lol
 
8-9 hours. Anything less than 8 and imma hot mess lol
 
6 to 7 average. Then there's those awesome nights where it's 2, because I can't get my brain to shut down.
 
rascal14 said:
During the week anywhere from 6.5-8 and during the weekend 8-12 usually lol I have the worst possible time trying to wake up and get out of bed.
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We are twins . Same here.

Last week I ended up pulling an all nighter and going o the gym before work. Wow did that feel bad.
 
Weekdays 4-6 max, usually closer to 5-5.5

Weekends, 8-All haha... Wekends are the only chance I have to actually sleep due to work and travel. If I have to travel on a weekend, forget that day too.

That said, I can sleep anywhere, anytime (including planes) so I do manage a few 1hr naps on planes and such once or twice a week usually. Not that it helps at all but it makes the time go fast at least haha
 
I wish I could pressurize my room because as soon as the cabin is pressurized on a flight, I am out. I barely make it through the safety announcements. I may have actually been awake for 10 takeoffs out of 100+ flights.
 
I have been up for 24 hours get on a plane and still can't sleep !!
 
ChocolateClen said:
Kids are a blessing and a curse, some days they feel more like a curse tho lol. I'm just glad I'm not there yet.
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I'm having a hard time biting the bullet with having kids bc of many such sentiments. I know most people say it's worth it but it's such a life changer. So much responsibility. I've been with my husband for 15 yrs. it's been a glorious 15 years of childlessness. It's hard to change and I'm approaching "sterile" age
 
UnicornDrpns said:
I'm having a hard time biting the bullet with having kids bc of many such sentiments. I know most people say it's worth it but it's such a life changer. So much responsibility. I've been with my husband for 15 yrs. it's been a glorious 15 years of childlessness. It's hard to change and I'm approaching "sterile" age
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I know where u r coming from. My wife and I were together for 10yrs before we had our first, and we enjoyed life so the thought of this looming responsibility was terrifying.

Im wrestling with this post because the experience of becoming a parent, and being a parent, is so deeply profound it cannot be encoded in words. I guess the best thing to say is this: your values change so dramatically that the things you fear losing now become insignificant. Its a liberating, transcendental shift, and you will look back and see yourself as the butterfly sees the catepillar.
 
UnicornDrpns said:
I'm having a hard time biting the bullet with having kids bc of many such sentiments. I know most people say it's worth it but it's such a life changer. So much responsibility. I've been with my husband for 15 yrs. it's been a glorious 15 years of childlessness. It's hard to change and I'm approaching "sterile" age
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We spent our 20s and early 30s traveling and living a pretty damn opulent lifestyle, then woke up one day and it just clicked. We always knew it was something we wanted, but never forced it. I will say that I cannot emphasize enough how amazing it is and for every moment we get frustrated, we have 100 more that we just get overwhelmed with feeling fortunate. I'm biased, but we are raising 2 of the coolest little girls on the planet. :)
 
I don't really plan on having kids lol just not worth it to me mostly cause I'd have to settle down with a woman and me and women don't get along well in the dating world.
 
It varies -- on average 6-7 during the week, though I have tried to be more diligent about getting closer to 8.

On the weekends I try my best to catch up at least one night if not both.
 
I usually aim for 8 hours altought 8.30/9 make me more comfortable.
Awfully the older I get the less I manage to sleep, even if I happen to sleep just 6 hours Im not gonna feel tired untill the usual time I go to sleep.

Anyway I noticed that sleeping from midnight to 8 is much more restoring than sleeping from 4 to 12 even if the amount of hours is the same.
Best result from comes from sleeping around midnight and waking me around 9, needless to say no electronics or caffeine before going to sleep.
A couple of hours of relax before going to sleep make a hell of a different even with the same total sleeping time.
 
kisaj said:
You're young. That is not all that uncommon.
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People told me this too when I was 20 (about the decision to not have kids) and now I'm over 30 and feel even more reluctant than I did at 20.

I do hope I wake up one day and suddenly change my mind but that hasn't happened yet in the past 15 years of my relationship
 
Double post oops
 
7.5-8 hours normally, I used to be a mess if I didn't get 9 hours but with kids my body has adapted - that or the fact that I take a strong pwo.
 
6-7 here as well when not working (I work 12+ hr night shifts 3-4 times week). Obviously much harder to sleep during the day, so then I average 4-5 hrs with the help of IML dream-n-grow.
 
5 hours at most. Jobs, kid, family, lifting and various responsibilities leave little room for sleep. In rare cases that I sleep for 6-7 hours I wake up feeling sooo good!!
 
GreekTheBrick said:
5 hours at most. Jobs, kid, family, lifting and various responsibilities leave little room for sleep. In rare cases that I sleep for 6-7 hours I wake up feeling sooo good!!
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Finally someone in my boat lol. If I sleep for 6-10 hours I wake up feeling trashed tho. 10+ and I'm gtg
 
ChocolateClen said:
Finally someone in my boat lol. If I sleep for 6-10 hours I wake up feeling trashed tho. 10+ and I'm gtg
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Any little something to take before bed to aid in waking up fresh? I have found paracetamol just before going to bed to make me wake up fresh but it works only for 3hour sleeps. Or less. If I sleep for 5hours it doesnt help me at all
 
Now it is about 8hrs 10pm to 6am. Do not use me as a metric. It is age and strenuous activity depended. I never needed more than 6 hrs well into my early 40s. Now with age and heavily lifting, literally, need that sleep.


I also think that if I did not lift weights and napped a bit in the early evening then I could revert to less sleep at night.
 
Sleep is very hard to come by nowadays in the crazy high stress times we live in. Makes it hard for us lifters to obtain our goals in many cases. Stress, lack of sleep, and lack of time for that matter. This is why cortisol control supps seem to be growing in popularity. I am going to look into getting a continuous intravenous drip of b-AET.
 
I feel all of you with regards to quality sleep being hard to come by with the unexpectedness that life throws at us. Even though I get less than 8 hours a night, taking ZMA XT from SNS has made my sleep better. I have taken this product even before my becoming a rep so I definitely believe in the product.
 
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