I’m going through a recovery week at the moment and have been thinking a lot about sleep and how it might be holding me back in improving performance. I’m generally someone that really struggles to sleep more than 6-6.5hrs (been like this since I was 16). Falling asleep is easy, but I wake up like clockwork somewhere around 5.5-6.5hrs no matter what I do (Usually 90-120mins Deep, 60-90mins REM). Typically I function decently well on this sleep but on top of training I end up feeling pretty gassed.
Anyways, I’ve been averaging like 7.5hrs the last few nights while on recovery week and it is blowing my mind. Has me wondering if I actually move away from something like 3 on, 1 off to something more like 2:1 or even 1:1 and hit the work weeks even harder. Any other poor sleepers figure out something that works or is this just life?