Importance of Sleep

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How important do you guys, as a microcosm (a large microcosm) of the grappling community, feel sleep is to your jiu jitsu/wrestling/judo training?

I wrestle and do BJJ 8x/week, and I lift (usually during lunch break) Mon, Wed, Fri, (2 day split: Sq, DL, OP/BP) but I haven't been able to get more than 6 hours of sleep per night due to my work schedule. Do you guys think I'll progress less quickly? Be more prone to injury? Get better and strong, but not actually aesthetically put on muscle? Etc.

Any opinions, professional or anecdotal, are welcomed-- I'm just trying to test the water on other people's experiences with sleeping less, and their body's ability to perform.

Thanks for any and all feedback!
 
Sleep is a vital. Make it a priority. You will feel better and make faster gains with less input.
 
I get six hours most nights, sometimes 7. I'm a mess if that six hours is closer to 5, and my entire life is affected, let alone my training.
 
If I get less than eight I barely function, 9-10 is optimal. But that only ever happens on my days off, so I survive on a little more than 8.
 
BallerBrawler27 said:
How important do you guys, as a microcosm (a large microcosm) of the grappling community, feel sleep is to your jiu jitsu/wrestling/judo training?

I wrestle and do BJJ 8x/week, and I lift (usually during lunch break) Mon, Wed, Fri, (2 day split: Sq, DL, OP/BP) but I haven't been able to get more than 6 hours of sleep per night due to my work schedule. Do you guys think I'll progress less quickly? Be more prone to injury? Get better and strong, but not actually aesthetically put on muscle? Etc.

Any opinions, professional or anecdotal, are welcomed-- I'm just trying to test the water on other people's experiences with sleeping less, and their body's ability to perform.

Thanks for any and all feedback!
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A huge part of training is rest and recovery. So yes, it can have a big effect on training, if in no other way but burning out quickly.
 
sleeping is very very important for our body! in fact, you must sleep 8 hours per night bro otherwise, you won't do good workout your body will get tired quickly cause you didn't took enough time to rest your body. so 8 hours is perfect!

and btw how can you do wrestling+bjj+weightlifting 8 times per week???lol, i do bjj 3 times a week plus weightlifting 3 times and i feel like i do some hard workout! hhhhh well, i wish i can do like you wrestling+bjj+weightlifting 8 times per week . good luck bro!
 
Hydration and sleep are paramount for me (and most other people too :) )

I can definitely feel the difference in my performance if I don't sleep enough. Two night ago there was a pretty big earthquake that woke me up at 1am and couldn't sleep until about 5 and them woke up at 6 for work. I went to practice last night and trained like garbage.

I don't know if everyone can get those precious 8 hours but I think for an adult 6 should be a minimum.
 
Sleep is important.

Fight camps often have me getting home after 11pm and it takes me hours to unwind: I hate it.

I really try to force myself to be in bed before midnight. I know it helps.
 
How old are you? Sleep is very important to me at 45. So is having a balanced life. Your schedule seems extreme to me. But if you are happy, then more power to you.
 
I don't understand, this forum seems to be full of guys that sleep 4-6 hours a night and train twice a day, work 3 jobs and wake up during their sleep due to their children.

Do these guys mean that they did this for a week or is this really what some people do all year around?

I can do fine on 6 hours of sleep , but when i train i need at least 8 hours of sleep to recover.
 
Getting good rest is huge. You will progress more training an hour less a day and getting 7 hours of sleep a night than you would training an extra hour and getting 5. It's important for the body, but even more so for the mind.
 
Respeezy said:
I don't understand, this forum seems to be full of guys that sleep 4-6 hours a night and train twice a day, work 3 jobs and wake up during their sleep due to their children.

Do these guys mean that they did this for a week or is this really what some people do all year around?

I can do fine on 6 hours of sleep , but when i train i need at least 8 hours of sleep to recover.
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Hahaha I know a guy that actually does this year round, probably gets 4 or 5 hours of sleep a night and he thinks he's just super hard working (true in a sense). He has no idea that he's actually a zombie at this point. Simple things just don't click with him a lot, and I bet he's forgotten what it's like to actually feel good.
 
When I wasn't lifting and was just training, I could get by on just under seven hours of sleep, less than six and a half and I was in real trouble.

Since lifting, recovery is a bit harder (maybe because I'm heavier now? Not sure) and I really need at least seven minimum, preferably seven and a half to eight.

That said, it's also the quality of sleep. I've functioned pretty well on four hours of sleep, and worse on five hours, waking up, had three more hours later on and still felt terrible. Sleep cycles and all that, I guess. @_@
 
Everyone has different sleep requirements, I usually try to get six to eight hours, which seems to work for me. I know guys that say they sleep four to five hours a night and are really tough; so it greatly depends on your genetic makeup. The quality of sleep, in addition to proper nutrition and hydration are also factors.
 
Crucial for me. If I don't rest adequately, I don't function as well. Im not as sharp cognitively, my body doesn't hold up as well to demanding training and I get burnt out quickly. I'm also a jerk on top of it all lol
 
Naps help even if it's only 10 min, so doors stretching and hydration
 
For me, enough sleep is very important.
I wrestle and train Bjj, and I find without enough sleep you feel unmotivated to go and train. And when I do train tired I get lazy and not as aggressive, you will notice a big difference between training fresh and tired and so will your coaches. In saying that I only get about 6 hours which leaves me tired and sore most of the time :(
 
How do you feel? I think that's the most important question. If you're feeling groggy and/or fatigued all the time under your current schedule, you might want to try to get more sleep even if it means sacrificing a few hours of training. Personally, I need about eight hours of sleep to function properly and, if I don't get that, I'm totally unmotivated to train and probably won't remember much of what I learn in class. I end up just going through the motions. With that said, however, I also know people who can get by--and feel fresh--on six hours of sleep. It's just a matter of who you are and how your body works.
 
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