After I mentioned in one of my articles that I noticed the benefits of getting more sleep over a two-month stretch, I had quite a few people ask for more information on sleep. Sleep is a topic that has fascinated me since I first started competing in bodybuilding shows. As the contest preparation went on and I got leaner, it would seem that I needed less and less sleep and I was able to ‘pop’ out of bed in the mornings like someone shot adrenaline into my arm. This went on throughout five different contest preps and, mind you, by the end of preparation, I was getting up at 3:30 a.m. to enjoy a pot of coffee and listen to some music.
The same thing happened last year when I played around with a cycle diet and took my body fat level down to seven percent. There seemed to be something about being lean or maybe deprived that made it so I needed less sleep or couldn’t sleep as much.
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