🔥Third post in our series on sleep:
😴On the importance of sleep for muscle remodeling.
☝🏼Now obviously there's no need to worry if you miss a couple of minutes sleep on some days, or even hours, but it's fairly clear that severe, repeated sleep deprivation has a profound effect on muscle remodeling.
👨🏻🔬In before comments like "I've known it all along". We're sure you did. Yet we're glad somebody actually generated the data and we're surprised by the magnitude of the effect.
🏋🏽♂️Also, keep in mind that the "work hard, play hard" culture makes a lot of people think they can get away with working a lot, training a lot, and saving sleep for "when you're dead". And many people are super proud of how much they can fit into a day despite little to no sleep.
☝🏼Well, sometimes there's definitely no way around that (shout out to all the parents out there 🥴). But overall it's not smart to sacrifice sleep if you're actually interested in making progress.
💃Again, don't worry about that one night out. Nothing about the data in this study suggests that losing 1, 2 or even 3-4h on one day would have a profound effect on your muscle recovery. Let alone long term adaptations to exercise.
🛌That being said, the study does confirm that there is an important role for sleep in muscle remodeling. So make sure you get sufficient sleep (most of the days), especially if you're interested in performance.
Edit: "NS" on slide 3 is supposed to be "normal sleep". Thanks to our followers for catching that.
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