There's a type of sleep disorder where people go to bed with more energy than they've had all day.
Your mind starts to race when you lie down, even if your body is drained.
The spinning lasts late into the night. Your brain weighs 2 tons the next morning.
Tired and wired.
Your inner clocks are reversed.
The shot of energy meant to awaken you from your slumber occurs at night instead.
And your morning feels like the end of a long day.
Make sleep your priority if that's the case.
Tailor your workout/nutrition/habit decisions accordingly.
Here is a quick guide to set your inner clocks back in order:
1- Morning weightlifting to spike your awakening hormone cortisol and boost your testosterone.
2- Avoid inflammatory foods and blue lights as much as possible.
3- Night routine to shut yourself down manually.
The modern body does not know how to fall asleep anymore, it's natural sleep/wake cycles reversed by the constant bombardment of artificial light and malnutrition.
Your physiology crashes when your body forgets how to wind down.
You have to teach yourself to survive.
Your body follows a universal rhythm tuned to the sun and the moon.
Your inner world shifts like the tide when you fall out of sync.
Address this issue before pursuing body composition goals.
Breathing exercises are excellent to tune your sleep clock:
Sleep is vital for the growth of a child, and night time disorders now affect nearly half of them.
You'll be shocked to find out how fast the tide can turn.
This thread presents what happened after 115 5th-grade students did breathing exercises twice a week for 3 months.
1175 3rd and 5th grade children from two Northern California school districts followed a modified PE curriculum including:
- Paced breathing
- Yoga and mindfulness practices
- Movement and Posture education
115 of them participated in a sleep study at the same time.
The results after two years were exactly what you'd expect from such a protocol:
- 74 minutes of sleep added every night on average
- Deeper sleep
- Better stress awareness - knowing when and what was the source.
- Noticeable improvements after only 3 months
- More= better