Sleep and your Health
We talk lots about nutrition and exercise. They are the two main keys to changing your body and destroying your enemies, but there is a silent third factor that affects both of these things almost as profoundly as our oft mentioned dynamic duo. This cloaked bandit eluding you in the night is none other than sleep. Let’s just keep it simple. You TRULY can derail much of your hard work in the gym and at the dinner table by not giving this biological necessity its due. Here are a couple ways. You diligently eat that low glycemic diet trying ever so hard to lose that gut (a sign of insulin resistance) and avoid being another statistic in the growing epidemic of Type 2 Diabetes (caused by insulin resistance). A lack of sleep can override the effectiveness of a good diet and cause insulin resistance. Another scenario…you kill WODs on a regular basis working intensely and explosively hoping to gain that positive hormone response of human growth hormone and testostorone that helps keep us all young, lean, muscular and athletic. If you don’t give sleep its due you are severely stunting your own efforts. HGH and testostorone can only be fully restored with a full nights sleep. The same is true of cortisol, which is a stress hormone that gets down regulated with good sleep. So get 8 hours of sleep every night and be hotter and a better performer.
Don’t believe me? Check out this article about sleep and kids. This is a must read. Most everything mentioned here for children is true for you too.
AM Classes
Happy rest day!
PM Classes
21-18-15-12-9-6-3 rep rounds of:
Handstand push-ups
Ring Rows
Hanging Leg Raises
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