Power Naps for Weightlifters (and Bodybuilders Too!)
Look at everything you’re doing in the gym right now. Think about the hard, brutal and long workouts you endure on a daily basis. Next, look at the food you throw down the hatch on a daily basis. Now look at your results. Think about the strides you’ve made in the gym over the past year. Are they satisfactory? Now, consider what kind of rest you would have seen if you had given your body a separate and individual “growth period” each day in which new muscle was built!
Plan your next year. Will you continue to advance with the same slowness? Are you intrigued to see what kind of weightlifting or bodybuilding gains you can achieve with a daily “power nap”? Naps are a great way to provide your body with energy for the second half of the day, as well as give your body a brief “growth period” where new muscle growth can occur outside of your normal sleep window. 8 hours at night. Bodybuilders grow when we rest, and a midday break is amazing for generating more new muscle growth.
before after? What time is the best time to nap? Do you want to sleep before your workout, providing a fresh and well-rested body for the gym? Or is it better to complete your workout and immediately enjoy a big meal rich in smart carbs and slow digesting carbs, then go to sleep? This question can be answered based on your available options with work, school, family, etc. However, if you have the ability to sleep at any time, then you should give both of them a try. Record your results and decide which time period offers the best results in the gym!
Making time for a nap can be difficult. If you’re a stay-at-home parent, this should be pretty simple. When the child sleeps, YOU SLEEP! Granted, he may already be sleeping at the same time from exhaustion. Use this time to grow, because as you know, your child is already using this time to grow! Don’t forget to eat before you crash. If you run your own business, as many young bodybuilders do (must be something about that Type A personality and work ethic), then you should be able to schedule a ‘meeting’ every day around 12:30 and give yourself adequate time to recover in the morning
The duration of the nap will depend on the individual. Some lifters will benefit from 20 minutes and some will enjoy a full 90 minutes. If you use anabolic steroids, you already recover faster from your workouts, so you may get the impression that a nap won’t do you much good. However, he grows bigger when on steroids, and another growth period during the day may be ideal for this!
Whether you’re a natural or steroid user, a bodybuilder or powerlifter, using power naps will make you bigger and stronger faster than you can imagine!