Hey everyone, Benkopur Radio, how an earth are you doing?

Oh my God, we're in September.

I had a massive boo-boo-boo-boo-o-o-boo-o-o-o-o-o-o-a-de-ece...

It's not massive, you know, these things, sometimes are a bit hard to judge.

I personally am always someone that is quite hot in

bed so we've got the winter duvet on and it was quite cool last night and I didn't have

the best night sleep because I was actually quite cold which is a little bit rare so

tonight I've either got a put a t-shirt on or the winter duvet has to go on and the

windows have to stay open I know it is that fine balance because sleep is the

elixir of everything. If we don't get a good night's sleep we inhibit our

training capability, we inhibit our cognition, our motivation. our So I hope I feel alright today. It's about 5.30 a.m. at the time of recording this. So who knows but make

sure you get your sleep environment right, which links into today's short

little podcast on shift workers and night workers which is

something that comes up a lot when you're looking to optimize your health and fitness

literally everywhere I go every time I do it health and

every time I do a seminar or I do some kind of live teaching

at the end there's always this question of yeah

but what about shift workers and it is tough

because there is no ideal answers for people that get moved out of the normal

patterns and the normal pattern for most people is you know working a kind of nine to five hours and you know we

maybe do a bit of fitness in the morning or at lunch or an evening and we can have a fairly normal meal pattern and it is easy to plan for right we can

get into a real nice routine but people that do shift work and night work don't

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