Thread: Training and Sleep

I think your body wasn't used to the drugs in the Tylenol PM and it altered the sleep cycle that your body is used to, causing you to oversleep and thus be drowsy today.

I always feel weak anytime I sleep way too little or much.

I'm no expert though, so we'll see what others say...

I'm an insomniac too.

The thing about sleep inducing medications is that they don't cause a "natural sleep".

You sleep all night, but you skip certain phases of sleep, like ROM sleep. So it's not a restorative sleep.

Your weekness is probably due to neuromuscular inefficiency caused by the lack of certain phases of natural sleep.

I know, it sucks, huh? I have to take a sleep aid most nights anyway...:::sigh:::

VanessaNicole

Fixing your sleep cycle is usually not that difficult. Essentially, you should choose a time to wake up every day. Wake up at that time each and every day without fail. Never skip a day and don't make any excuses or exceptions. Once you do this, your body will start getting tired at about the same time every night. When this happens, go to sleep, and perform a relaxation exercise: Imagine your whole body relaxing, each muscle from head to toe, and think of something calm and relaxing. You should fall asleep fairly quickly if you're tired. Also, if you do have trouble sleeping, never read, watch TV, listen to music or do anything of the sort while you're still in bed. Try to program your body so it knows that when you lay down in bed, it's going to fall asleep. If you do too many other things, it'll get mixed signals and won't cooperate as much. So if you're having trouble falling asleep, get up and read on a chair or watch TV in another room or something - just don't do it while laying in bed.