Hello Jordan,
If you’ve already elaborated on this, I’m hoping you can post a link to that discussion. If not, I’d appreciate hearing your thoughts and what Austin thinks about this. Did you mean you think we should not, or that we don’t need to? Thanks.
I’m not sure what you’re referencing. Who said that?
Ah, context is important.
Yes, I don’t think that sleeping >7hrs is terribly well supported (read: supported at all) for “improvements” in anything. In short, sleeping 7 hrs/night in bed appears to have the lowest rate of mortality and morbidity whereas more or less than this tends to increase both of those things. Obviously, there’s much nuance here but I’m still not really sure what you’re asking. I don’t think that “sleeping as much as possible” improves performance or quality of life and further, sometimes when you haven’t slept well things are still okay.
Thanks for the reply. I posted the question because the comment I quoted you on seemed to suggest that you held an unconventional view of how much we should be sleeping each night - convention being 7-9 hours while as little as 6 and as much as 10 hours may be appropriate for some. It also crossed my mind that maybe you had discovered through experience, observation or research that doses of sleep deprivation can somehow accelerate the acquisition of gains, bro. Reading your reply, however, indicates that while your view is at the lower end of convention, it’s still within it. I’ll probably look into how you arrived at the number 7 because how can 10 hours be worse than 7? Again, thanks for your time.
Eh, it’s just what the data says- e.g. 7 hours is about optimal. That said, sometimes I think I do better on less sleep. I have no idea why, but ultimately it suggests to me that there are multiple inputs into performance other than just sleep ya know?
