The unconventional wisdom about sleep | Nick Littlehales | TEDxNewcastle
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
- As we are now completely immersed in a 24/7 world with no going back, but ever forwards, understanding how to mentally and physically recover [sleep] is high on the populations agenda. However with the lack of education, we first need to understand some basic myths and misconceptions.
Nick discusses his work and how he helps some of the world’s biggest stars in international sports achieve the best possible sleep to help them achieve peak performance on the world stage.
Follow Nick on @sportsleepcoach Nick works with a collection of the biggest stars and teams in international sport all focused on weaponising sleep as a critical competitive advantage as these athletes look to achieve the unending human goal of realising their peak performance.
Nick has been redefining and innovating a new human sleep approach for over 22 years. Nick’s fascinating journey to become the world’s leading Elite Sport Sleep Coach and his revolutionary R90 Technique is encapsulated in a book called SLEEP “The Myth of 8 hours the power of Naps and the New Plan to Recharge Your Body and Mind”. Published by Penguin Random House it has made him an International Best Selling Author with translations into 13 languages world-wide. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
Excellent information. I wished the talk had been longer, so I googled for more information. He has a book!
I read it..... didn't know that he gave a TED TALK 😢
did u learn anything from his book?
Its a great book I use his protocols and feel great!!
Have slept differently ever since we hosted this talk. Back sleeper all my life but have become a side sleeper since Nick's talk. Also accepted the wisdom of 1.5 hour sleep cycles instead of thinking I had to get 8 hours all in 1 block.
Cool stuff thanks! Just read his book and loved it. Really made a difference.
I definitely have trouble falling asleep. Interesting stuff thank you
This is gold
Came after listening to his intervention in Don't Tell Me The Score, a great podcast programme.
this is one of the finest videos of the 21st century
This is cool!🤩👏👏
I loved
I just started 90minutes sleep/Cycle and this video is very brief and informative...
You still do it?
How much difference did it make?
11:28 That's a very arresting picture!
Considering how we live longer than our ancestors ever did despite having far less sleep than them makes me think that our ancestors needed all those breaks for the rest and recovery due to having to hunt, fight, run just to stay alive on a day to day basis whilst going for long periods with little to no food (therefore far less freely available calories than we have now) This is why they needed that rest. We don't have anywhere near that requirement for sleeping 3 times during the day. The 7-8 hours a day sleep is sufficient for everyone but the most extreme cases of people who do superhuman feats of endurance/exercise. There may be some benefit to the midday nap in terms of peak performance and memory/cognitive availabiltiy however.
"Sun going around our planet"
😂
what is he saying is CWT?
Well I think about early humans, probably hunters and gatherers that “worked” during the day as necessary, then rested at night and maybe high noon. I’ve heard they actually had more “relaxed” lifestyles because they had to be really adaptable to the season and circumstances. They didn’t spend so much time worrying about the distant future as much as having enough for the day/short term.
Then people became farmers and theoretically it’s a much more demanding job for a more “consistent” supply of food. From my understanding it’s mostly I the planning and harvesting season, summer it’s mostly caring for your crops and winter is rest I suppose (hopefully you have enough surplus to make it through). It also kinda tied the people to the land and it was such tough, backbreaking work that it kinda made people want to enslave other people...
Of course surplus also allowed for trade specialization... and eventually civilization as we know it today, but I do wonder sometimes about the overall effects...
The other thing is that biologically we evolved over the course of thousands of years, but we have been able to radically alter our environment so much, I’m not sure we can actually keep up... maybe these are some of the unintended consequences... I also think we switched from survival mode to success mode, but those are different games with different rules... idk shower thoughts...
I don't believe in chronotypes just like I don't believe in body types. I think there are proclivities towards specific ones in individuals, but at the end of the day the human machine is extremely adaptable. Chronotype is also definitely affected by age, cuz old people tend to get up earlier and earlier. Hard to say if chronotype or body type is influenced by nature or nurture more though
one is backed by actual research and the other was a highly disputed theory that linked mere observation with psychology and backed by zero research.
I used to sleep until 10am as a pre teen. In my 70s I wake at 5 am. It’s weird.
i mean if cristiano listens to his advice
i am in
Kind of pouring on the info too much
I was multitasking so I maybe missed the point, but what's the deal with the portable bed and talking about pillows. Is he suggesting we all get a special bed type?
I think he means pillows are useless
He explains how pillows were just invented to compensate for a badly picked mattress for our body type and how they fill to the space between our head and the mattress when the mattress is too hard. Ideally you should be able to sleep without a pillow on a properly chosen mattress to have good postural alignment.
I can't sleep of an extremely soft mattress. I wake up with ungodly back pains. A (very)firm mattress is what I must have BUT because I have GERD I have to elevate my head HENCE a pillow.
I struggle with a comfortable neck when sleeping side on or even on my back. So pillows are a great compromise.
Not sure how someone could choose a perfect mattress