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EP 578: Sleep is Training

Trail Runner Nation

Trail Runner Nation

Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

One of our favorite topics at TRN is sleep. Sleep is the time our bodies adapt to the training stimulus.  Alexey Guzey, a researcher, writer and co-founder and executive director of New Science joins us to shed more light on this important part of our training.  We cover many topics like:

  • What are the myths of sleep?
  • Why do we sleep?
  • Is it OK to feel sleepy?
  • Should we get as much sleep as our body wants?
  • Can we over sleep?
  • Can we bank sleep?
  • Can we catch up on sleep?
  • Depression and sleep

Check out this past episode about Matthew Walker's book, "Why We Sleep"

Take a look at a couple of Alexey's articles on sleep:

Thesis on Sleep
Alexey's take on Matthew Walker's book, "Why We Sleep"

You can learn more about Alexey at Guzey.com, follow him on twitter or learn more about New Science

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

We did not always have access to unlimited amount of food of sleep and unlimited amount

0:07.0

of safety.

0:08.0

Like a 10,000 years ago, even, they lived in an environment where like every calorie counted.

0:13.7

Every second that you could sleep safely, you probably should have slept safely.

0:18.6

And the organ is probably biased somewhat towards, like if it senses that there is not

0:24.1

much reward and to like stay in the wake, then you might as well get some sleep.

0:41.6

Welcome to the Trailhead of Trailer Nation, where we go on virtual trail runs with interesting

0:45.9

guests that have a lot of knowledge that may help teach us something about how to become

0:51.4

a better runner and maybe a better human being.

0:54.2

Today we're going to talk about sleep and you know Scott, that is one of my favorite

0:57.6

subjects.

0:58.6

So I'm leaning forward as we talk to Alexi Guzi and we're going to learn some things

1:02.6

that I had no idea that I should know about.

1:06.3

And we'll get right to it after we tell you a little bit about our favorite partners

1:10.3

here at Trailer Nation.

1:12.8

Don, our friends at John G are always coming out with new gear or what do they have for

1:17.0

us now?

1:18.0

You've come out with the Helio tank top Scott and your hottest runs have met their match.

1:22.5

It's ultra light and super fast drying and that's what you need in material and that's

1:26.2

what they've produced it with.

1:27.8

What does that mean?

1:28.8

Well, it's clean, free, it's comfortable.

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