How Much Damage Did I Do To My Body????

You'll recover pretty quickly.

I work a graveyard shift. On my off-days, I sleep a normal schedule, which results in one day where I get up at 7a, and then I am basically awake until 9a the next morning (26 hours). I do this once a week. When I get home at 9a, I go for a real easy run, sleep about 6 hours, and then go for a 20 mile bike. I'm 41. SInce you went to a party and was fired up by the chicks, I'm guessing you're pretty young. If I can do it weekly, you'll manage this once.

If you went home with one of those "tons of ladies", you'd have gone to sleep about 5 minutes after you got home. 3 minutes to get undressed and foreplay, then 2 minutes to 'let go'.

Come on man, get with program. Get in the game.

Depending on what part of the country he is in there might have only been three or four ladies.

SMJO wrote:

Depending on what part of the country he is in there might have only been three or four ladies.

If 3 or 4 are literally a ton of ladies, those are some very large, morbidly obese ladies. Do you have some kind of fat fetish? You know, like those funny greeting cards with the fat black lady on them.

I read that sleep works on a 48hour cycle. The sleep you lost last night (Saturday) will make you feel sluggish on Monday morning. Turn on the golf today and that will help you take a good nap. You'll recover the rest during the week.

take it from a someone who likes to party hard and run hard and who travels a lot (over many time zones and sometimes horrible flight times)...

i have found that as long as you have been getting in regular, good amounts of sleep... the body can deal quite well with one night of missed sleep

a few nights and a may take a week or two to get everything right again but one night and it is no big deal

you didn't do any 'damage' to your body, that is ridiculous

Sleep is not for your body....but rest is. Sleep is for your brain. It always disturbs me when people on my team are upset the morning of a big race because they didnt get good sleep...sleep means 0 when it comes to phsyical performance. Sleep is only for neurogenesis and to allow the brain to 'recover'. As long as your not moving waking rest can be better than sleep (during sleep your body can still be VERY active).

oh and kiko, sleep doesnt work on a 48 hour cycle.

danjizzmo wrote:

I didn't sleep a wink. I went to a party (I didn't drink, smoke or do drugs), and I got home pretty late. I couldnt fall asleep AT ALL. I think I was a bit fired up from the party and what not (not fired up to fight.. there was tons of ladies). I ran in the morning off of zero sleep. I felt alright until about 30 minutes into the run.. My pace went from 7:30's to 9:00's... How long will it take to recovery from no sleep one night????

Also, I have been having trouble trying to fall asleep earlier. I am going to try to stay awake until 10 pm which is the time I want to start falling asleep. Is this a good idea?

No sleep for one or two nights won't kill you. What sleeping have you done over the last week? I've done some of my best races after sleepless nights.

b-lama wrote:

Sleep is not for your body....but rest is. Sleep is for your brain. It always disturbs me when people on my team are upset the morning of a big race because they didnt get good sleep...sleep means 0 when it comes to phsyical performance. Sleep is only for neurogenesis and to allow the brain to 'recover'. As long as your not moving waking rest can be better than sleep (during sleep your body can still be VERY active).

Yeah, and it's not like the brain is connected to or influences your other body systems or anything. right? right?

As a side-note, how much neurogenesis do you really think is going on during sleep or at any other time?

magic johnson,

New studies show a lot of neurogenesis goes on during certain phases of the sleep cycle. This doesn't mean the growth of entirely new cells per se, but rather dentritic growth, etc.

It is accepted among most rhythm psychologists that sleep is for recovery of the central nervous system. You could miss several night sleep no worries without effecting your phsical performance.

The brain, and especially the circadian cycles are deeply connected with other organs in the body (such as kidney, liver and endocrine hormones) but these only show stressfull effects after very long periods without sleep-not the kind of sleep deprivation college life throws at you.