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Tips to fall asleep faster
Apart from various training techniques or nutrition ideas, and look at another vitally important aspect in your life that plays an important role in your success with your fitness goals. And that aspect is...
How well do you sleep?
One of the challenges for many people in their fitness endeavors is getting enough quality sleep each night. In case you didn't already know, the quality and quantity of your sleep each night is VERY important to maintaining an optimal hormonal balance within your body and keeping your metabolism as high as possible.
How much sleep should you get?
- Doctors recommend at least 8 hours per night for the average individual.
- Athletes at the top of their game often sleep 10 hours per night.
- Just because you can get by on less sleep doesn't mean it's the best thing for you.
- Sleep is absolutely NECESSARY for building muscle to repair from a workout.
On the other hand, if you never seem to get enough sleep, or don't sleep well enough to give your body the rest and recuperation it needs, you can count on the fact that this lack of sleep is making you fatter!
That's right, the lack of quality sleep creates a fat-storing hormonal mess inside your body. The fact is, the stats show that most people don't get enough sleep regularly, and also don't sleep as soundly as they should.
Aside from sleeping disorders, most people simply don't get enough sleep because they have a hard time shutting down their minds at night, which leaves them lying there in bed tossing and turning with thoughts about the stresses of their daily lives shooting through their heads. Does this happen to you?
Tips to fall asleep fast
Here are some of the sleeping tips from Michael Geary to fall asleep easier each night. He is a recognized International Fitness Expert, contributing writer for Muscle & Fitness Magazine, author of the internationally-selling book Truth about six pack abs.
Try not to exercise intensely within about 2 hours or so of your normal bedtime. However, getting regular daily exercise at any other time of the day will help tire you out so that you can fall asleep easier once bed time comes.
- Don't try to go to sleep hungry. Contrary to popular belief, just because you eat after 6 or 7 pm does not mean it's going to be instantly deposited as blubbery body fat.
- A light healthy snacks 30-90 minutes before you hit the pillows will help satisfy your hunger and help you fall asleep easier.
- Avoid stimulants like caffeine any time after late-afternoon.
- Try chamomile tea and/or mint tea an hour or two before bed time. These generally have a relaxing effect and can help you calm down at night.
- Try ground nutmeg in capsules an hour or two before bed. Buy a couple rounds of whole nutmeg and use a strong coffee grinder to grind them into powder. Then fill empty capsules with the nutmeg and take a couple each night. Not totally sure if this helps or not, but it certainly can't hurt, and nutmeg is at least a good source of antioxidants too!
- Try to clear your mind of daily stresses and things you need to do. This has been the biggest obstacle to overcome in order to fall asleep at night. Your body needs ample rest to build muscle.
- One thing that helps is to use a note pad to write down what you need to do the next day. That helps me clear your mind and reassure that you won't forget anything, so that you can relax.
- Instead of thinking about tomorrow, simply wipe your mind clean, and think about a relaxing place that you can enjoy, like a tropical beach, or lying on a hammock in the breeze somewhere.
- If you can keep your mind on something relaxing like this, and not your daily worries, you fall asleep like a champ!
There are many other strategies that people use to help fall asleep, but here figured a few of the tricks. Whatever you do, please try to keep it natural... taking sleep aid drugs will almost always have adverse side effects.
Here are some more tips, tricks, and secrets you'll discover in the Truth about six pack abs program. :
- How to modify your routines to make them twice as effective for stripping away body fat.
- How to eliminate the nasty exercises and useless machines that are WASTING YOUR TIME.
- How to enjoy endless varieties of delicious foods, while simultaneously turning yourself into a fat-burning machine!
Michael Geary is a recognized International Fitness Expert, contributing writer for Muscle & Fitness Magazine, author of the internationally-selling book.
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