Sunday, January 31, 2010

Weekly Challenge: Week 1 - Get 7-8 Hours of Sleep

Mrs. GIAS and I are trying to really take this next 90 day round seriously.  So much so that we are setting weekly challenges for ourselves.  These weekly challenges start each Sunday and, in theory, they build on themselves for each of the following weeks.  Hopefully this gives us a little extra motivation, a mini-goal each week and something to focus on if we need that extra push.  Anyway, you'll see a new weekly challenge on GIAS each Sunday.

This week's challege is to get enough rest.  A person can't perform when they are exhausted and/or fatiguied.  We are doing intense workouts, sometimes more than one or two in a day, so we need our rest.  We work out at 5:00am everyday.  That means to get our full 7-8 hours of sleep, we need to be sleepingno later than 10pm.  Far to many times in the past we have told ourselves that we would go to bed early so we could be better rested but then we start watching a show and then all of a sudden its 10:30, we still need to get ready for bed and we don't fall asleep until well after 11:00pm or later.  Well, this challege hopefully ensures that we will be fast asleep in time for us to get our 7-8 hours every night. 

It's ironic that I'm writing this post just after 10pm, but I swear, I'm on my way upstairs to bed right now!

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