{"id":5453,"date":"2022-05-19T09:19:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T15:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strengthsenseiinc.com\/?p=5453"},"modified":"2022-05-19T09:19:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T15:19:44","slug":"strength-sensei-bookshelf-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strengthsenseiinc.com\/2022\/05\/19\/strength-sensei-bookshelf-35\/","title":{"rendered":"STRENGTH SENSEI BOOKSHELF"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
One of Charles R. Poliquin\u2019s favorite topics was the importance of getting the optimal amount of quality sleep to improve health and athletic performance. One tool that can help you sleep well is napping, and one of the best books on that subject is Dr. Sara C. Mednick\u2019s Take a Nap! Change your life.<\/em><\/p> Mednick has the credentials to be considered one of the foremost authorities on sleep, particularly napping. Her doctoral thesis at Harvard examined the mental and physical benefits of napping, and her name has appeared in over 75 scientific papers, including the Journal of Sleep Research<\/em>, The Journal of Neuroscience<\/em>, and Behavioral Brain Research<\/em>. Mednick currently is a Professor at the UC Irvine Department of Cognitive Sciences.<\/p> Take a Nap! Change your life.<\/em> was published in 2006 and is backed by extensive research published in scientific journals. Mednick gets our attention by offering the following benefits of napping:<\/p> Consider too that there is considerable research on the benefits of extended sleep, which can be achieved with napping. One research study involving 23,500 subjects found that those who napped at least three times a week reduced their risk of coronary mortality by 37 percent!<\/p> For athletes, consider that Stanford University has conducted considerable research on the effects of extended sleep on swimmers and basketball players. Among other observations, the researchers saw the swimmers improve their starts, turns, kicking speed, and 15-meter sprint times. The basketball players made significant improvements in the free throws (from 7.9 to 8.8 out of 10 attempts) and three-point goal percentages (from 10.2 to 11.6 out of 15 attempts). Fun Fact: Lebron James claims he sleeps 12 hours a day!<\/p> The subhead for this book is \u201cThe Scientific Plan to Make You Smarter, Healthier, More Productive,\u201d and it delivers with practical advice you can immediately put into practice.<\/p> One of the key points of Take a Nap! Change your life.<\/em> is that the best naps last about 20 minutes or between 60-90 minutes. She does not recommend naps of 30-60 minutes, as it creates \u201csleep inertia,\u201d a condition that may put you in a groggy state for up to an hour.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t