Are You Undersleeping or Oversleeping?

Undersleeping kills recovery hormones strength mood and growth.

Oversleeping can signal poor sleep quality stress issues.

Seven to nine hours suits most lifters well.

Chronic undersleeping elevates cortisol impairs muscle gain significantly.

Oversleeping may reduce training drive and alertness levels.

Sleep debt accumulates silently wrecking performance eventually hard.

Quality matters more than chasing extreme sleep durations.

Consistent schedules regulate circadian rhythms improving recovery outcomes

Waking refreshed beats logging excessive hours nightly always.

Track readiness markers not just total sleep time.

Undersleeping increases injury risk appetite dysregulation and fatigue.

Oversleeping sometimes follows late nights poor recovery patterns.

REM and deep sleep drive muscle repair processes.

Blue light late disrupts sleep efficiency badly overall.

Naps help when nights fall short occasionally strategically

Oversleeping won’t fix accumulated sleep debt effectively alone.

Undersleeping blunts testosterone growth hormone pulses at night.