Just curious how many of you take naps. Personally, I love to take long naps whenever I can. On nights I don't swim I usually take a two hour nap when I get home from work. On days when I work from home I'll usually nap if I've got at least an hour of free time before I have to leave for the pool. This does cause me to miss workouts on occasion when I don't feel like getting up! I also like to take two hour naps in the afternoon on weekends when possible, even though I usually get eight hours of sleep or more on the weekend. As you might have guessed, I don't have any children!
I know some people rarely if ever nap and others prefer much shorter naps. How about you?
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I started getting visits from the "nap monster" about the time I hit 50.
My eyes just don't want to stay open and my motivation and productivity plunge. Weekends, I will indulge and sleep for 4 hours, which totally screws up my ability to keep a normal schedule, compounding problems. It's most common when I am going short on sleep to make morning practices or even to get to work on time. Usually it hits either 1pm Saturdays or 3pm other days, about 2 hours after a meal.
My neurosurgeon encouraged me to nap but I don't think he had the 4-hour kind in mind. Mid-afternoon fatigue is typical for his patients and I even had verbage in my return-to-work statements to accommodate it.
I think most of my NM visiting now is just getting run ragged and sleep deprived, and having it accummulate by the end of the week.
I started getting visits from the "nap monster" about the time I hit 50.
My eyes just don't want to stay open and my motivation and productivity plunge. Weekends, I will indulge and sleep for 4 hours, which totally screws up my ability to keep a normal schedule, compounding problems. It's most common when I am going short on sleep to make morning practices or even to get to work on time. Usually it hits either 1pm Saturdays or 3pm other days, about 2 hours after a meal.
My neurosurgeon encouraged me to nap but I don't think he had the 4-hour kind in mind. Mid-afternoon fatigue is typical for his patients and I even had verbage in my return-to-work statements to accommodate it.
I think most of my NM visiting now is just getting run ragged and sleep deprived, and having it accummulate by the end of the week.
