I read about this on bodybuilding.com. I understand at night you are naturally in a catabolic state because your not eating anything. However; some people suggest to actually get up in the middle of the night to get a meal? Is this even practical? Wouldn't sleep just be as important since you grow the most during your sleep and it would outweigh getting a night meal?
Sport Waking up in the middle of the night to get a meal?
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I am against waking up to feed one self. Mainly for the fact that it takes 45Mins to 2hours depending on the person to enter REM sleep. This is the type of sleep that is healing and rebuilding the majority of Muscle building happens in REM sleep. So say you go to fall asleep at 12am you might not enter REM sleep till 1 am now you wake up at 6 AM to eat then you to back to sleep by 6:30 and enter REM by 7:30 Now you have to wake up and go to school/work by 8:00.
Thats two hours of time that could have been devoted to REM, rebuilding / healing sleep. Not to even mention that the body's digestion of food can interferer with REM sleep. When we do not get the quality sleep we need, REM, we can not hope for Hypertrophy of any large measure.
Of course on the other side of the spectrum you have those who say we might not have enough Building nutrients to successfully heal and rebuild throughout sleep. So Some believe we need to "re-Fuel" around half way through sleep.
Thats two hours of time that could have been devoted to REM, rebuilding / healing sleep. Not to even mention that the body's digestion of food can interferer with REM sleep. When we do not get the quality sleep we need, REM, we can not hope for Hypertrophy of any large measure.
Of course on the other side of the spectrum you have those who say we might not have enough Building nutrients to successfully heal and rebuild throughout sleep. So Some believe we need to "re-Fuel" around half way through sleep.
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12-6am isn't enough sleep anyway. If someone was dedicated enough to wake in the middle of the night to eat, I would hope they were dedicated enough to get 8 hours of rest.
I personally do this whenever possible and I noticed it helps greatly. Sometimes its 1/2 scoop MRP 1 scoop casein protein, and while bulking it's 2 scoops MRP.
I personally do this whenever possible and I noticed it helps greatly. Sometimes its 1/2 scoop MRP 1 scoop casein protein, and while bulking it's 2 scoops MRP.
Please explain why? Are you saying all people respond as you do with sleep?
REM sleep stimulates the brain regions used in the learning process. Like deep sleep, REM is linked with the increased production of proteins and protein synthesis. The first time we enter REM sleep normally occurs about 70 to 90 minutes during sleep.
^Read the whole article you'll understand my "Premise"
given i did not want to get to technical i did not even mention the SWS sleep form. This is where the majority of our HGH is released(SWS sleep is essential for HyperTrophy). Read the article to learn what SWS sleep is.
Waking up enough to be alert forces the body to restart the whole process. Meaning you are wasting possible time spent in the two most important sleep forms REM and SWS.
It was not my intension to suggest that is is all spent in rem.
The first sleep cycles tend to have shorter REM periods and longer periods of Deep Sleep. As the night goes on (usually about half way through a totals night sleep), we spend almost all of our sleep in stages one, two, and REM.
Here is another quote from the article that is very good i would greatly suggest you read it instead of simply dismissing it.
I've heard of one person learning how to control entering deep sleep or REM, whatever it was immediately so that she would not have to sleep long at all while lost at sea, so that she wouldn't run into anything while sleeping.