Importance of Sleep

So, I broke one of the cardinal rules of gaining muscle, getting enough sleep. I worked out on Friday and then later went to a 1040pm show and ended up not getting to bed until 4 in the morning. Then I had to get up at 8am yesterday and go to my niece's birthday party and needless to say I felt like crap.

Then after the party I went out to a bar with my friends and had a couple drinks and ended up not getting to bed until 2am. Now it's 940 in the morning and I'm tired, sore and my muscles feel like mush.



Me, trying to write this post->->->



I decided to take this opportunity to talk about the role that your social life plays in muscle gain. Of course, you still need to have a social life, but if you know that going out with friends or staying up late or drinking or any activity for that matter is going to affect your muscle gains, you should reconsider it.

Now, I could say that me not getting good sleep for those two days and then drinking won't really affect my results all that much, and that would be true for the most part. I probably didn't hamper my progress too much with just that one incident.

But, it's when you have multiple "little" incidents that it adds up. If I keep doing this every 3 or 4 weeks, then eventually after 6 months or a year, it will add up and it could be the difference between gaining 20 pounds of muscle and 25 or 30 pounds of muscle.

Luckily, today is an off day so I can just rest today and get ready for tomorrow's workout. I got off the horse for a bit, but tomorrow I'm gonna tackle the workout with as much intensity as I can muster.