Something I have spent a lot of time on recently is how to get the best night’s sleep, since Kate and I have increased the amount we are working out I have found that I need more sleep. This is obvious in itself, but primarily for proper recovery, you need a decent amount of sleep and “good quality” sleep.

I mean look at the Kitten in the photo again and tell me that you don’t want to be that comfy and snoozy, Photo credit to Kate Stone Matheson for the amazing photo.

Here are some of the main benefits of getting enough restful sleep:

1. Improves concentration and productivity: Good sleep helps you stay focused and alert, making it easier to concentrate and be productive throughout the day, I honestly find it helps me so much more with my ADHD since working on my sleep pattern.
2. Boosts mood: A good night’s sleep can help improve your mood.
3. Promotes physical health: Getting enough sleep helps your body repair and rejuvenate, which can improve overall health and helps with your gym recovery, more on that later.
4. Reduces stress: A good night’s sleep can help reduce stress levels and improve overall mental health.
5. Increases creativity: Sleep can help stimulate creativity and improve problem-solving skills.

Since starting to work out as often as we do now: see my blog about it here, I have realised that since I have started actively working out harder that sleep is so important as is the quality of sleep you get. So I did some research into it and this is what I found (briefly):

• Sleep helps promote muscle recovery.
• It helps reduces inflammation.
• Sleep helps your “body battery” as my watch calls it.
• The thing it has helped me with as well is that it has improved my mental focus in the gym. I am no longer tired when I wake up like I used to be.

Something my wife has always been very envious of about me is that I can sleep anywhere, anytime. Planes during take off, yup. Cars, anything really. She really used to struggle to fall asleep, so we started coming up with a few ideas to try and help her doze off faster and it has helped my quality of sleep greatly.

• First things first, make sure your pillow game is strong. You want to be comfy and that will depend on how many pillows you like, Kate likes 2, and I like 1. I also use a silk cover to help with my hair getting tangled—the joys of long hair.
• Set the mood… for sleep. We use a lavender spray on our pillows and now my body knows this means nap time.
• Have a hard stop of things like TV or phone.
• The final thing we do, which might not be for everyone is that we use Sleep Sounds on Spotify (the forest sounds are my fave).

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