Sleeping on the floor (although very healthy) is just too difficult...

I did this for a while. It can be difficult. Try melatonin maybe?

Why would 8 hours sleep on a floor be better for you than 8 hours sleep on a bed?

I'm interested in the details and perceived benefits.

Do we have Al Salazar claiming this is how he gets a few elite times? Maybe Team Sky over in cycling is selling it?

Will we be seeing a RW article real soon?

I slept in the floor for about 3 years and it is only the first weeks when you are sensitive.

I sleep on the floor in front of the fire sometimes in the winters.

I sleep on a rug, with my head on a pillow, and switch from one side to the other.

This is quite comfortable.

Eventually the fire goes down, and I move to the bed.

Pressure and gravity - push the body down. There is no wrong movements, on the contrary, all movement resisting is good and ligaments, facia pull.

It's hard to explain but, mattresses are deadly.

8 hours (if you can actually sleep) on the floor heals:

-Stretches the entire body over and over again.

8 hours on a soft mattress honestly hurts me in a lot of ways.

Gnomebe wrote:

My experiment with sleeping on the floor has made me realize that even if I get 30 minutes of rolling around and relaxing/stretching on the floor that's good also!

Sleeping or resting on the floor for an hour a day is like 4 seconds faster in the mile equivalent to an elite athlete.

Not enough studies in this area have been done.

You should try it now...it's free.

Skeptical. But my daughter (6) sleeps on the floor next to her bed every night. Prefers it. I remember doing the same when I was younger without much of a problem. No way now. Too old. Too soft.

Gnomebe wrote:

My experiment with sleeping on the floor has made me realize that even if I get 30 minutes of rolling around and relaxing/stretching on the floor that's good also!

Sleeping or resting on the floor for an hour a day is like 4 seconds faster in the mile equivalent to an elite athlete.

Not enough studies in this area have been done.

You should try it now...it's free.

Are people being serious? My troll-dar is acting up right now.

cozy mcdozy wrote:

Are people being serious? My troll-dar is acting up right now.

Well, this is the Internet, so everyone is pretty much dead serious all the time here.

I know that for me one minute of sleeping on the floor is the same as one hour on a bed. But I still have to sleep 8 hours on the floor every night, so when I wake up it feels like I've been in a coma for a month.

I sleep on the floor. It's very comfortable if I adjust positions often enough. I've slept on the floor more than in a bed for the past 15 years.

I like to sleep on the floor because that's where the spiders and centipedes are.

You've got to sleep on the floor, that's what humans EVOLVED to do. At the same time, get rid of that air conditioning. Humans EVOLVED to live in Africa in the heat. THERE'S A REASON that AFRICANS are so much faster than americans and it's that they are living where humans EVOLVED.

Why do you think decathletes are the fittest people on earth? BECAUSE THEY ARE DOING WHAT WE EVOLVED TO DO! You got up in the morning, sprinted after the antelope, jumped over the river to catch him, hit him with a rock, jumped up into a tree to eat him and then sprinted all the way back to your cave! The next day you got up jumped over bushes, threw a different kind of rock, used a stick to help you get up on your elephant, and then hunted lions with your spear, and then ran home (this time farther because you had gone so far with your elephant).

cavemen wrote:

Why do you think decathletes are the fittest people on earth?

I enjoy sleeping on the floor, usually do it the night before meets because I'm staying at a friends place. Always feel like it is an extra step of mental preparation.

cozy mcdozy wrote:

Gnomebe wrote:

My experiment with sleeping on the floor has made me realize that even if I get 30 minutes of rolling around and relaxing/stretching on the floor that's good also!

Sleeping or resting on the floor for an hour a day is like 4 seconds faster in the mile equivalent to an elite athlete.

Not enough studies in this area have been done.

You should try it now...it's free.

Are people being serious? My troll-dar is acting up right now.

yeah, if this is serious I am going to try it.

I'm trying it right now. I'm not feeling any more rested or relaxed. Just cold because it's drafty down here.

A lot depends on the quality of the floor. The best sleep is on old-school hardwood. Avoid Pergo or other laminants. Carpeting eliminates all the benefits.