Taking Naps

[Journeyman]

Besides scientific studies claiming that taking naps are good for athletes, I hear about professionals taking naps on training days after roadwork, etc..

Do yall boxers/athletes take naps? If so, when, for how long and how often?

and how has it affected your performance and overall energy level throughout the week?

I personally try to take a nap after work, then ill wake up, eat a meal and goto the gym...

[~AK49~]

Rarely have time for naps, but whatever floats your boat. I dont care for them, life is short and i dont care to make it shorter by sleeping it away. Thats my philosophy on the matter anyways.

[Alx.]

it feels like i'm even more exhausted after so i don't know

[Jack3d]

Typically a power nap is supposed to be around 20-30 minutes.

If you sleep too much longer than that, usually you'll feel more groggy/sleepy than energized.

[NVSemin]

Taking nap is great, but unless you are a pro athlere, I doubt you get allowed to take a nap at work

[Chip2006uk]

Typically a power nap is supposed to be around 20-30 minutes.

If you sleep too much longer than that, usually you'll feel more groggy/sleepy than energized.

This is spot on in my experience. If I nap longer than 30 minutes or so it can turn into quite a deep sleep and I find it really hard to wake up. And when I eventually do its like Ive just woken up from a nights sleep and I'll feeling pretty crap.

Whereas as Ive had naps that have lasted 30 minutes or so but its such a light nap kind of you are half awake in the twighlight zone and after waking up I feel really refreshed and ready to go.

[Journeyman]

i agree with yall...when i take a nap, i try to limit it to an hour max, but end up oversleeping a lot, and i would wake up groggy and in a bad mood

but the thing is, i have a hard time falling asleep right away, and might not even pass out untill 20-30minutes

[T.Horton]

in the morning i will go to the gym, come home eat a light breakfast. fruit or oatmeal and toast and then go back to sleep till about 7am or so. i don't know if that counts as a nap but i do find myself wanting to nap mid-day sometimes, depending on how strenuous the day has been. sometimes it's an hour and sometimes it's two. but i think it may be a little different since i am getting a bit long in the tooth while you guys are probably mostly young bucks.

[GhostFighter]

I think a power nap is only really beneficial if you slept less then 7 hours that night.

[GrandpaBernard]

what the other posters have said are spot on. my best naps have involved me just lying on my bed and shutting my eyes for less than an hour. I don't really fall asleep but just lie there to recover

If you actually felt like you slept from it, you did it wrong