The Best Way to Improve Sleep Quality
The Best Way to Improve Sleep Quality
Just focus on consistency.
By Marco Augusto
Waking up feeling fresh and ready for the day is a great feeling, a feeling most of us unfortunately don't get too often.
We all know we need more sleep.
And we've probably had those days when we wake up on the wrong side of the bed, and are the grumpiest person in the world.
A lack of sleep also effects more than our mood, with it being associated to weight gain and poor health.
So how do we get more sleep to ensure we're healthy and not an absolute terror to those in our life?
There are two ways we can look at sleep: quality and quantity.
Both are important.
Quality is all about the type of deep sleep we get.
There's no point getting 9 hours sleep, only for it to be restless and broken.
Equally, constantly only getting 3 hours of high quality sleep isn't going to be enough to ward off an early death.
So both go hand in hand.
Getting enough sleep is really about doing what's required to get to bed early enough.
It requires some discipline on your part.
But there is one way to improve your quality somewhat.
You see, our bodies love consistency.
In fact, for overall health, small consistent actions have a bigger positive effect on our long term health than being inconsistent by pushing really hard, followed up by doing nothing, over and over again (I guess at least you're being consistently inconsistent??).
And the same is true for our sleep.
So one of the simplest (but not easy) ways to improve sleep quality, is to go to bed, and wake up at the same time each day.
In this way, we allow our bodies to get into a predictable routine, that will allow us a deeper sleep.
Even if you're not getting the full 8 hours sleep, being consistent with your sleep will have a huge effect on how you feel each day.
Again, only getting three hours sleep won't help the situation.
But if you're only getting 7 hours, this consistency will make a big difference.
In this way, it's good to have an alarm for going to sleep and an alarm for waking each day.
As the body gets used to this consistent sleep time, you can adjust your alarms to add 15 minutes to your sleep time every two weeks or so.
Use this simple tactic to improve you sleep and mood (we'll tank you for it too!).
Until next time,
Marco
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