How Many Hours do You Sleep per Night?

I'm good on 6 - 7 hours but now that it's dark when I wake up it's a lot harder to haul my butt out of bed.  I do that on weekends too.  Sleep experts would probably say that changing your sleep habits every couple of days is not good for you either.

Edited by meherczeg 2009-10-15 8:59 AM

I pretty much always get woken up once a night by the wife, kid or dog. So I plan to get 9 hours and usually end up with about 8. I have noticed that I feel better if I have several nights in a row of 9 hours. My body likes to sleep.

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Absolute MINIMUM of 7 hours. I'd say over a week I average 8-9 though. Sleep is the #1 thing almost all athletes could improve their performance with by increasing IMO.

Edited by Leegoocrap 2009-10-15 9:11 AM

I shoot for a 8-9 hour sleep window. In bed by 10:00, up at 6:30 most weekdays. Don't know how many hours I actually sleep, but I get to sleep pretty fast and don't wake up in the night. Weekends I can go 9 or 10 hours if conditions are right. I also like a Sunday afternoon nap every now and then.

I had a bizarre experience one winter Sunday when I fell asleep on the couch and when I woke up it was around 6:00 and dark and I took me a while to figure out if it was am or pm. Kinda weird.

I hate when that happens.

I usually get an afternoon nap one day on the weekend as well.

I get about 9 hours a night.

Heh.. happened a few times in college when pulling all nighters were common resulting in a messed up concept of time.  Once after an exam I went back to the dorm and took a nap.  Woke up at around 7:30pm.  Thought it was the next morning. Jumped out of bed and frantically get ready for my 8am class. 

I shoot for at least 7 hours on weekdays and at least 8 on weekends.  I often a bit short on weekdays, sometimes longer on weekends.  When I do 2-a-days I try to get an extra hour that night since by body seems to need it.

Brian

Good lord...you guys sleep a lot!  I can't imagine sleeping for more than 7 hrs a night.  I usually average 6/night and I am good to go.  If I get over 7 I get a headache because I slept too long.  Not generally a napper either.  But I have been known to take an involentary one here and there after a hard weekend workout.

I do sleep in and get 7 on weekends.  I can't imagine wasting a day by sleeping in so late.

Hehee... my mom and grandma always said that to me when I'd sleep till noon in college and I'd get all defensive and say "I still have the rest of the day!" I have friends who STILL do this... sleep till 1 or 2 in the afternoon on the weekends whether they went out the night before or not. As I've gotten older, my mindset has changed and I actually like getting stuff done on weekend mornings now, as opposed to sleeping. Weird. Like I've grown up or something

 That being said, I enjoy 9 hours of sleep most nights . Sleep roughly from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. It works for me.

I am growing a person so I don't consider it wasting a day but taking great care of both of us!

I don't think it's sleeping in but rather going ot bed earlier. I get 8.5 hours a night and Im up at 6:30am. I would hardly call that sleeping in.

I sleep in until 6:30 on the weekends.  Does that count?

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To bed 8-9pm, up usually at 4am - I will sleep in until 5 1-2 mornings.

Depends on what is going on. Been writing a lot of proposals/big things for the future lately, so I stay up late reading and writing. Same in graduate school (hello, Mr. Dissertation, thank you for stealing three months of sleep from me). But I try to recover by stealing a power nap if I'm really down. I've been known to catch 15 in the stacks of the library on my lunch break (set the phone and watch and find a comfy seat hidden deep in the material culture methodology section)

WOW - I am surprised at the amount of 7-8 as well.

I get about 7.5 to 8 but I am a night person so typically go to bed at 12:00 or later. I get up at 7:45, thankfully I work out of the house. But people always say I sleep alot.

I guess Triathletes value sleep.

On a side note - the world is against people who are night people. I like going to sleep at 12-12:30 on weekdays and 2:00 on weekends. Then when you sleep for 8 hours people think you are lazy.

BUT if you go to bed at 10:00 and sleep for 8 and get up at 6:00 people think you are a hard worker.

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Sounds like fun!!!

Typically I get about 6.5-7 hours at night.  But I try to sneak in the occasional nap at lunch or after work for 20-30 minutes when I can.  But I am at that age where my body tends to wake at the same time no matter when I go to bed.

My youngest is a champion sleeper, though.  Once I let her go just to see how long she would sleep.  She woke up at 3 pm, with about 14 hours of sleep behind her.  And recently she went to "take a nap" after marching band at 7 pm.  And woke up the next morning at 9 am!

5-6 if lucky. At least once a week though I will get a 10 hour sleep in to "catch up". Doesn't work, but I have had this pattern for at least 18 years. I like to think if I would get the 8-10 that's reccomended, my training would pay off more. One less excuse anyway.