Enough Rest?

I generally need more than 6 or 7 hours, but any more than 9 and I'm pretty much worthless.  I have to worry about sleeping too much instead of too little, if left alone I still can easily sleep 12+ hours.

Everyone needs different amounts of sleep.  I say sleep as long as you need to feel reasonably rested.

Everyone is different, and you are likely to get a lot of "I only need 4 hrs" comments from the hardcore crowd. 

 However, I used to believe that and now I'm convinced that 8 hrs is the way to go.  If you need an alarm clock to wake up, I don't think you are getting enough sleep.  You can ck my logs (I include sleep hrs) and you'll notice that I have better workouts when I get more sleep.

I am a big supporter of sleep. I sleep exactly 8 hrs every night, but during IM training I would try to do 8:30-9 hrs (if I could, it was really hard sometimes, because some nights I was in bed at 8 p.m. just to get up at 4 a.m....really tough to get to bed by 7 p.m.). During IM taper, I tried really hard to get that extra hour of sleep.

They say if you fall asleep in less than 7 minutes, you're probably not getting enough sleep. People can't function well with just 4 hrs of sleep. They think they can, but they would be better off with more. They're just not aware of the effects the lack of sleep is having on them....