IMPROVING OUR QUALITY OF SLEEP
Are you still tired when you wake up in the morning after having a full night of sleep? Do you feel sore most days and under-recovered?
Research shows that people who lack sleep or have poor quality of sleep tend to make worst decisions throughout their day, especially in their professional life. An increase in car accidents occur during the mornings after drivers have struggled with sleep.
In addition, getting consistently poor sleep increases our chances of dealing with cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, obesity, and immunodeficiency. These issues make life much more challenging and take away from our quality of life.
This can all start to improve if we take sleep just a bit more seriously and improve our QUANTITY AND QUALITY OF SLEEP.
Where should we focus our energy??
- Build a consistent sleep and wake cycle that allows you to get 7-9 hours of sleep each night.
- Create a good sleeping environment (cool and dark room, comfy mattress and pillow).
- Turn screens off 1-2 hours before sleep and if you cant, use blue light blocking glasses.
- Cut caffeine out 6-10 hours before sleep.
- Do something you enjoy to wind down that does not involve technology. Examples include; reading, stretching or meditating before bed.
- Try taking a natural sleep supplement ( THIRDZY ) which includes magnesium and GABA to help you get more deep sleep each night and imrprove recovery.
- Try black out curtains or a sleep mask.
Try these tips and tricks. If you can teach yourself to optimize the worlds greatest recovery tool, you will have more energy in your workouts, in your day to day life and best of all, be in a better mood doing it.
Coach Sam