Sleep is a medicine for your muscle building!

Sleep should never be underestimated for your fitness journey. Let's talk about how and why.Here's the thing, of all of the drugs you can take for muscle building, in some certain contexts, and there's much more intellectual ways to explain what I'm going to say, is sleep is the best drug. 

Now, in reality, if you sleep close to the right amount, every other muscle building drug is way more powerful. An hour of extra sleep beyond what you need offers you everything beyond downsides. An hour of extra sleep that brings you powerful and comparable results as anabolic drugs do.

It is foundational. Why? A couple of things. First, much of your growth in muscle actually happens while you sleep.

Number two, why do you gain a lot of muscle when you sleep? One of the reasons is that growth hormone pulses the most when you are sleeping.

There is a reason that little kids physically double in size over the years, grow myocytes and transform. You guys ever been around little kids before?  Little kids, they sleep like 12 hours out of every 24.

And they just keep growing and growing and growing. They're growth hormone producing and consuming machines.

And if you want to be a little bit more like that and get a few more gains, try to treat your sleep as seriously as possible. If you don't treat your sleep very seriously you cannot accomplish anything extra.

For most people, making sure that they're sleeping enough requires seven to nine, but more like eight to nine hours per night. That's that little extra on their old cherry on top. Very few people need, adults need more than nine hours of sleep.

People who say, I'll sleep when I'm dead, don't understand the next link in the causal inference chain is, well, okay, but you're going to be dead a lot sooner if you don't get a lot of sleep, and while you're alive, you're not going to be jacked and lean. In any case, if you want max gains, treating lots of good sleep after a large meal with a ton of slow digesting protein, of course, one to two hours before bed, treat it as seriously as you do your training and your nutrition, because no joke, it can makes a big difference, and if you're already putting in tons of time into the gym and tons of time into meal prep and all that stuff, the least you can do is the easiest thing you can do, which is just go to sleep, and if that is the minimum necessary to super boost your gains, these are literally the easiest gains you'll ever make in your life.