Sunday, 22 December 2013

6 top tips for perfect sleep - personal trainer chester le street & gateshead

6 top tips for perfect sleep - personal trainer chester le street

These are my top tips, and as a terrible sleeper too i know these little tips work for me.  And if they work for me they will work for anyone-trust me.  It's all about our stress levels and actually being stressed puts our bodies in its sympathetic nervous system, this is important because when you are in your sympathetic nervous system your body sends blood from the digestive system to your extremities and keeps your body at a elevated state.   So at this state your body won't want to sleep, you see only in the parasympathetic (rest-digest & build) state you will want to sleep.  


Check out my youtube video, explaining these top tips.


1.  Grab a diary and set a sleeping habbit by programing your sleep in at the same time every night, also an hour relaxation before your bed every night.

2.  No distractions during that last 1 hour before bed, as excitement will put your body in that stressed nervous system.

3.  Relaxing music within the last hour, this could be music, relaxation soundtracks or sleep tracks all downloadable on itunes.

4.   Grab a relaxing cuppa tea, i like pukka night time which is all natural and is mildly sedative to calm you down and help relax you.

5.  Read a boring book, nothing too exciting as this will stress you too.  So no horrors, action or thrillers something happy or melow.

6.  Just before you go to sleep, your head is on the pillow conduct 1 minute of slow box breathing, ensuring to breath through your belly.   This is the quickest way to take your body from stress to relax.

So its all about forming a sleeping habit and bringing your body from its sympathetic to para-sympathetic nervous system, which in turn will help with good sleep.

hope you enjoy and grab some nice sleep.


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