Ideal REM per night of sleep

Medical Q&A [Moderated]
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Howdy,

In one of BBM lives, Jordan said you can get a good amount of REM, sleeping few hours, but some folks will need more sleep hours to get the same amout of REM, and for those folks he recommend not train late, no caffeine(late), etc…

That said, what is a good amount of REM for people who train?

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If we were able to give you a specific number of hours on this (which we can’t), what would you do with that information?

3

I think wereables in this area can help, in fact in all areas I think the only one that a simple wearable can help with efficiency is to identify deep sleep, isnt that hard programatically identify deep sleep.

With some data, identify noises(roads, neighborhoods, etc…) that can disturb you sleep, you can decide to buy a noisemasking sleepbuds for example, or move to another place.

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oh, I almost forgot… At the BBM live, Jordan said some folks would need more time sleeping than anothers to feel fresh(wich I assume he mean deep sleep), I got curious how do quatify a good night of sleep…

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I read online that most teens probably need 6 REM cycles of sleep, while young adults would do fine with 5. As one Cycle of REM sleep is around 1.5h, you can find out where it would be better for you. The article also stated that more sleep is not necessarily better for you (not to mention that you would also be basically wasting 1.5h every day).

I try to get 7.5h every night and always wake up at 7am. If I do this consistently, I don’t have issues going on with day to day life or making progress in the gym without any caffeine or any large amount of sugar.

Try it out yourself. If you want to get up at 8am (for example) try for a week to go to bed at 12. Then vary it with +/- 10 mins every week to see when you wake up the easiest or, ideally on your own and rested, just before the alarm

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I feel like if noises like you specify were responsible for significant sleep disturbances, you’d know it without using some sort of technology. In my opinion, this level of analysis isn’t going to yield a big enough return to spend time on it.