5 Sleep Tips for Better Recovery
Fuel Your Strength
Steph Gaudreau
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Sleep can be a touchy subject. While everyone needs sleep in order to function properly, it is especially important for those of us who are more physically active. Not only does sleep help in the recovery process, but it also has many additional benefits. If you want to get more restful sleep, this episode is filled with tips so that you can get the best sleep possible for both your mind and your muscle health.
Key Takeaways
If You Want To Get More Restful Sleep, You Should:
- Avoid alcohol and caffeine before you go to bed
- Improve your sleep hygiene habits and bedtime routine
- Look at your sleep situation objectively
Revenge Bedtime Procrastination
Have you ever found yourself staying up late just because you know you can? This is called revenge bedtime procrastination, and it happens to the best of us. Even though we know that we need to get more sleep, we use this late-night time as an escape or act of freedom, but it is actually doing our bodies more harm than good. By understanding the things that are underlying your revenge bed procrastination, you can make changes in your daily life, bedtime routine, and sleep hygiene to give your body the proper amount of sleep needed.
The Importance of Sleep
So, why is sleep so important? Sleep not only helps with our mental function and energy levels but also plays a huge role in our muscle recovery as active individuals.
Your body needs a proper amount of sleep to operate properly, both mentally and physically, which is why it is so important to prioritize your sleep routine. While everyone's schedules are different, I have found 5 of the best ways for anyone to get better sleep and am sharing them with you today.
Who do you know who could benefit from my top 5 sleep tips? Share this episode with them and tag me in the comments section of the episode page.
In This Episode
- Why revenge bedtime procrastination is a problem (4:30)
- The benefits of sleep for athletic people and recovery (8:17)
- 5 tips for getting the restful sleep that you need (10:19)
- Changes that you can make in your life to get better sleep (18:18)
- My absolute favorite sleep hack that I use quite frequently (22:05)
Quotes
"Sometimes when you get used to sleep deprivation, you kind of learn to manage, and sometimes you forget how good it feels to be properly rested." (6:57)
"We need sleep no matter if we are exercising or not. But if you are someone who is highly physically active, then sleep is part of your recovery strategy." (9:52)
"No matter what you decide, you get to choose your routine. It could include so many different things." (16:55)
"What, if anything, in your schedule, is within your power to make a change about?" (18:46)
"We talked about revenge bedtime procrastination, what is and why it happens. We made a connection to recovery and training and why if you are someone who is working out, etc., it's really important that you make sleep part of your recovery strategy." (25:09)
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| 0:00.0 | The Listen to Your Body Podcast is all about helping women who lift weights get stronger, |
| 0:14.2 | fuel themselves without counting every bite of food, perform better in and out of the |
| 0:20.2 | gym and take up space. |
| 0:23.3 | I'm Strength Coach, Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, |
| 0:28.7 | Steph Goddrow. This weekly show brings you discussion about building strength without |
| 0:34.8 | obsessing about food and exercise, lifting weights, food psychology and more. You'll learn |
| 0:41.6 | how to eat, train, recover, listen to your body and step into your strength. Hit subscribe |
| 0:49.0 | on your favorite podcast app and let's dive in. |
| 0:55.8 | You know that thing where you're staying up late because damn it, you're an adult and |
| 1:00.9 | you can do what you want. That feeling that no one's going to tell you what to do, especially |
| 1:06.8 | go to sleep. Well, that concept has the name and today on the podcast, I'm exploring |
| 1:12.8 | first of all the connection between sleep and recovery, but also this idea of revenge |
| 1:18.3 | bedtime procrastination and five tips that you need to know for better sleep so that |
| 1:24.2 | you get better recovery for your workouts. Let's dive in. |
| 1:29.3 | What's going on? Hello and welcome back to the podcast. Thanks for being here with me |
| 1:33.9 | today. Oh, this is going to be such a good topic. We are going to be diving in to the |
| 1:40.5 | world of sleep. Now, this is not the first time we've talked about sleep on this podcast. |
| 1:46.1 | We'll go ahead and link those other shows in the show notes, but it is something worth |
| 1:51.1 | bringing up again, especially when we're talking about recovery from our workouts, recovery |
| 1:58.1 | from our strength training so that we are actually getting the benefits. We're getting |
| 2:03.3 | stronger avoiding injury and so on. And there's this topic of revenge bedtime procrastination |
| 2:10.6 | that I'm guessing there is a pretty good chance to you know what the feeling is, |
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