WHY SLEEP IS SO IMPORTANT.....

Today reinforced how important it is for me to make sure I get my 8 hours sleep! I know some people survive on less but I've worked out I NEED my eight hours, any less and I'm just no where near as productive, happy or motivated. I'm still amazed at how much a lack of sleep can affect everything!

At the moment I'm away on a trip and have had a few early starts, this morning I had to get up at 3:30am and I just felt average all day! Not do I just feel more tired I find it so much harder to stay on track with my nutrition and all day I try and find any excuse to skip my training session. Normally I love to train in the morning and when I can't I find it a bit of a mind game all day to get motivated enough to do it in the afternoon.

So this afternoon I arrived at the hotel and had talked myself into thinking that I should just have a rest day as I'm too tired to train! Anyway after a couple of hours of sitting around I went out to the shops to grab a salad for dinner and it's amazing what a bit of fresh (very fresh as I'm in Melbourne and it's freezing!) air can do. Just from walking to the shops I'd managed to confince myself to go back to the hotel get changed and hit the gym and I did just that..... I actually had a great training session and enjoyed every minute and feel so much better now! I've learnt (it's taken a while) that as hard as it may seem to do my training that I feel so much worse from not doing it!

So as important as sleep is I didn't let the lack of it become an excuse for being lazy. I know I function best on eight hours and I just need to do my best to make sure I get it.

I'm writting this as I constantly have clients say they are too tired and use it as an excuse to skip training! I'm not saying you should train if you are exhausted as rest is just as important as eating well and training hard but if you are not trying to change your lifestyle and making sleep a priority then you are making your journey to becoming fit and healthy so much harder! And the bonus is when you are training hard and eating well you sleep so much better.

Anyway enough rambling from me, time for me to get off the computer and get ready for my eight hours sleep! Mmmmmm sleep.................

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Posted By Hilde on Wednesday 4th March 2009 @ 20:22:39

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