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Sleep Hacks: The Geek's Guide to Optimizing Sleep

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Re: Sleep Hacks: The Geek's Guide to Optimizing Sleep

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Post by peterbraden »

fauigerzigerk wrote: post #8

It would be interesting to read but I have to say it's just too infuriating what that Scribd crap does to the web. They ruin a perfectly good way of displaying documents just so they can "solve" the problem they created themselves. That's just ridiculous and I will never ever again click on or upvote anything that has a scribd URL. Scribd truely shows the ugliest face of the ad funded web. It's innovation turned on i…

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Re: Sleep Hacks: The Geek's Guide to Optimizing Sleep

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Post by ubuntuftw »

DrStalker wrote: post #7

One tip I don't see there is using supplments to aid sleep; I started taking zinc just before bedtime and found it helps me get to sleep better and feel more refreshed in the morning. I take it as "ZMA", which is a blend of zinc/magnesium/vitamin B designed to help rest & recovery from physical activity, but the same sleep benefit comes from regular zinc tablets from the chemist.

+1 for this. It worked for me. Although (and there may have been other reasons for this), the effect fleeted with time.

Re: Sleep Hacks: The Geek's Guide to Optimizing Sleep

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Post by achompas »

jules wrote: post #49
kareemm wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're lifting weights with your arms, you're probably doing it wrong. Try the olympics lifts: power cleans and snatches and squat cleans and snatches. Or their components: deadlifts, front squats, presses. Or back squats and thrusters. Do a bunch of those in rapid succession and your whole body will be much more tired than doing a 5k run, guaranteed.

This is not my experience. After a couple you won't be able to lift anymore, but you won't really be exhausted either. At least I can't lift any more just because my muscles fail. I don't regularly lift weights though, so perhaps if you're more experienced you can. That said, you don't need experience to get exhausted running (but the tendency of many people is to stop long before that point).

You're probably lifting too much weight, or leaving the gym too early. I know this isn't helpful, but you should be exhausted once you leave the gym.

Re: Sleep Hacks: The Geek's Guide to Optimizing Sleep

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Post by jules »

achompas wrote: post #53
jules wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is not my experience. After a couple you won't be able to lift anymore, but you won't really be exhausted either. At least I can't lift any more just because my muscles fail. I don't regularly lift weights though, so perhaps if you're more experienced you can. That said, you don't need experience to get exhausted running (but the tendency of many people is to stop long before that point).

You're probably lifting too much weight, or leaving the gym too early. I know this isn't helpful, but you should be exhausted once you leave the gym.

How much weight should you lift? How long should you spend in the gym?

Re: Sleep Hacks: The Geek's Guide to Optimizing Sleep

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Post by moeffju »

semerda wrote: post #43

Problem today is we spend a lot of time in front of back lit devices like smart phones, laptops/pcs & tv's before bed time. Therefore our melatonin levels stay low. I've been supplementing with melatonin tables to help with sleep before bed and I get an awesome night sleep. Also things already covered like regular exercise (w/ weights), sleeping in a pitch dark room and consistent sleep & wake time work wonders. I bl…

What helped me was f.lux " rel="nofollow">http://www.stereopsis.com/flux/>, a tool that adjusts the color temperature of your screens during the day, following the natural daylight pattern. It's available for Windows, OS X and Linux, and it's free, so I recommend trying it out.

Re: Sleep Hacks: The Geek's Guide to Optimizing Sleep

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Post by moeffju »

fauigerzigerk wrote: post #8

It would be interesting to read but I have to say it's just too infuriating what that Scribd crap does to the web. They ruin a perfectly good way of displaying documents just so they can "solve" the problem they created themselves. That's just ridiculous and I will never ever again click on or upvote anything that has a scribd URL. Scribd truely shows the ugliest face of the ad funded web. It's innovation turned on i…

I agree, even though Scribd works pretty well in Chromium. In Firefox, it used to crash the browser all the time. I wish people would just use Google Docs as a PDF viewer on the web. Just prepend https://docs.google.com/viewer?url= to any PDF URL and there you go. Or even better, link to the PDF and give me the option to handle it as I want. I have a Chrome extension that uses Google Docs as a PDF Viewer, but also lets me download it. No more Adobe Reader, ... just Scribd still gets in the way.

//offtopic

Re: Sleep Hacks: The Geek's Guide to Optimizing Sleep

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Post by achompas »

jules wrote: post #54
achompas wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're probably lifting too much weight, or leaving the gym too early. I know this isn't helpful, but you should be exhausted once you leave the gym.

How much weight should you lift? How long should you spend in the gym?

It's more complicated than a simple formula. If we're talking about olympic lifts (squats, deadlifts, clean & press), start with the bar and increase 5 lbs every day until you start hitting a limit.

Check out Mark Rippetoe's "Starting Strength" [1] for more info. Great program for anyone new to weightlifting.

[1] http://startingstrength.com/

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