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Five secrets to getting the best sleep

mensfitness.com — Rest Assured: Five secrets to ensure you always reach the Zzz-spot

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persaltier, on 08/01/2008, -8/+29While you're reachin' the Zzz-spot, someone else is goin' for your girlfriends Ggg-spot.
- TheTaoOfBill, on 08/02/2008, -10/+4Sorry for the comment abuse but here is the text only version to spare you the marvelous amount of ads.
  
  Most guys just don't get enough sleep. But according to MF adviser and sleep expert Michael Breus, Ph.D., you may be able to get by on less sleep, as long as you make sure the sleep you are getting is restful. His advice:
  
  Never Fall Asleep in Front of the Television
  Proper head and neck alignment is essential for getting a good night's sleep, and the only way to get enough support is with a good pillow and the ability to stretch your body out fully.
  
  Dim the Lights
  Replace those 100-watt lightbulbs in your bedroom with 45-watt bulbs. Lowering the lights about a half hour before bed will help relax your body—and hers.
  
  Lower Your Thermostat
  Or just buy a good fan. Keeping the temperature of your bedroom between 68 and 72 degrees will prevent you from reaching for another blanket or waking up drenched in sweat.
  
  Get Into a Routine
  Going to bed at around the same time each night will help you regulate your body's rhythms and fall asleep faster.
  
  Stop Snoozing
  Hitting the snooze button might seem like an easy way to capture a few more minutes of glorious shut-eye, but those extra minutes are not enough time for you to return to a deep sleep. Get your butt out of bed already, or set the thing for when you really need to get up.
- P1um, on 08/02/2008, -2/+4giggity
- synystar, on 08/02/2008, -2/+3Thank God. I need the sleep. I'm not a machine lady.
kokoshka, on 08/01/2008, -1/+58Beat off.
- rccarter, on 08/01/2008, -8/+3Beat what?
- Natnie, on 08/02/2008, -0/+14He's right; it works.
- praisethelard, on 08/02/2008, -0/+10It's like a cup of warm milk.
  - lex0nyc, on 08/02/2008, -1/+5... when you can't cup something that produces warm milk.
  - Galaxylander, on 08/02/2008, -0/+10Well, that depends on what you mean by warm milk...
  - LinkGCN4, on 08/02/2008, -0/+11Galaxylander beat me to it. No pun intended.
  - synystar, on 08/02/2008, -1/+4Ewwch...I'm going to think of this thread every time I drink warm milk.
  - J3R3MY, on 08/02/2008, -3/+3You actually drink warm milk?
- evan3168, on 08/02/2008, -0/+9nature's sleeping pill
- hollyminkowski, on 08/02/2008, -0/+1Seriously???
  That's pretty amazing.
- namelessXsilent, on 08/02/2008, -0/+3ding ding ding. we have a winner
adayahead, on 08/01/2008, -0/+13In many cultures, sleep patterns and settings are remarkably different; crowded rooms, lots of noise, sleeping in 3-4 hour segments instead of "straight through the night."
GoodGuyComics, on 08/01/2008, -0/+15If I dont sleep with the TV on how will I know what time it is?
- rccarter, on 08/01/2008, -0/+7Saved By The Bell is on...
  
  *yawn*
  
  Time to wake up.
  - praisethelard, on 08/02/2008, -0/+3Well, I wake up in the morning,
    And the 'larm gives out a warning,
    And I don't think I'll ever make it on time.
  - namelessXsilent, on 08/02/2008, -1/+1i wake up just in time to see the bus fly by!
2h3px, on 08/02/2008, -1/+16#6: Go to sleep now.
- Inaktivist, on 08/02/2008, -2/+0This... or to be more specific, "stop browsing Digg and go to sleep now."
sockpuppets, on 08/02/2008, -2/+6Beer. Lots and lots of beer. Plus there's a dutch oven bonus for your significant other.
mddawso, on 08/02/2008, -10/+25WHY IS THIS ON THE FRONT PAGE?

Digg, stop it, I'm starting to get pissed off.

It's a couple of paragraphs of fairly useless information.

AND IT CONTAINS NO LOLCATS.

honestly, wtf.
- brettruffenach, on 08/02/2008, -7/+2You, sir, are a retarded person.
- benroy, on 08/02/2008, -0/+12I R SLEEPING IN UR BEDZ!
- o0justice0o, on 08/02/2008, -0/+3But dude it's a LIST, that makes automatic digg front page
- electricwaffles, on 08/02/2008, -1/+1quit yerr bitchin
  - Halsfield, on 08/02/2008, -0/+1if you really got something useful from this article, good for you, but i doubt it. people digging worthless stuff like this up is making this site pointless. I can go to yahoo news and digg through 20 pages of articles and go to lolcats and get about the same info. hell, if i go to reddit i at least get these articles when they first come out instead of days later.
    
    if your response is gonna be "well dont come here" , the whole point of giving criticism is to hopefully change the way things are, but if the majority of diggers are going to keep digging crappy articles up, then yea, i will be going elsewhere.
- Halsfield, on 08/02/2008, -0/+1im right there with ya, these crappy articles are flooding digg. i go through about 30 ***** articles to get to 1 that i can digg. The whole point of digg is that in theory, people digg down the stupid crap and digg up the good stuff, so we get a top 10 full of great articles. instead people digg stuff like this and then i have to go digging for something worthwhile to read.
hwy9nightkid, on 08/02/2008, -0/+136. Do not become a computer scientist
shithitinthefan, on 08/02/2008, -0/+17#1 Get off the damn computer
#2 See #1
- trickyt, on 08/02/2008, -0/+4If I miss the first step then I hit an infinite loop running so fast that I never actually get off the computer. And.. and.. Must.. Compile... Linux.. Kernel.
- lex0nyc, on 08/02/2008, -0/+3Dammit, now I'm caught in a loop.
brettruffenach, on 08/02/2008, -2/+11I'll combine all the secrets into one:

Smoke weed.
- santaliqueur, on 08/02/2008, -1/+5Somehow I think smoking weed is the answer to most situations you are faced with.
chrisc3, on 08/02/2008, -1/+3I dont know how i'd ever wake up in the morning if snooze didnt exist....
appleseed1234, on 08/02/2008, -0/+27That was disappointingly obvious.

I hate going into these articles thinking that they may impart to me some life secrets, but I never come out a better man :(
Pronation, on 08/02/2008, -0/+4#7 Get off digg.
eggballs, on 08/02/2008, -0/+1As Chingy eloquently informs us in Hate It Or Love It, "Women swim into my nuts. You should see how they dive."
evnglion, on 08/02/2008, -0/+6What is the point of sleep if you can't watch porn, play video games, or sit on digg for endless hours at a time?
Codzilla, on 08/02/2008, -3/+0#8 don't look at this picture!!!
http://digg.com/pets_animals/Awwww_HELLLLLLLLLLL_N ...
P1um, on 08/02/2008, -2/+1#6. watch Mtv
- benroy, on 08/02/2008, -0/+1I beg to differ...
  #6. Never, ever watch MTV for any reason...ever!
  
  Seriously, I have MTV, VH1, & E! blocked on my cable box. Just in case any (retarded) friend wants to watch any of them.
farfromsubtl, on 08/02/2008, -2/+4FTA

Never Fall Asleep in Front of the Television
Proper head and neck alignment is essential for getting a good night's sleep, and the only way to get enough support is with a good pillow and the ability to stretch your body out fully.

Dim the Lights
Replace those 100-watt lightbulbs in your bedroom with 45-watt bulbs. Lowering the lights about a half hour before bed will help relax your body—and hers.

Lower Your Thermostat
Or just buy a good fan. Keeping the temperature of your bedroom between 68 and 72 degrees will prevent you from reaching for another blanket or waking up drenched in sweat.

Get Into a Routine
Going to bed at around the same time each night will help you regulate your body's rhythms and fall asleep faster.

Stop Snoozing
Hitting the snooze button might seem like an easy way to capture a few more minutes of glorious shut-eye, but those extra minutes are not enough time for you to return to a deep sleep. Get your butt out of bed already, or set the thing for when you really need to get up.

Wait... these are SECRETS?! Lamesauce.
NYankee2003, on 08/02/2008, -1/+30Yea, I'm really going to listen to an article "made popular at 2:41 AM"
benroy, on 08/02/2008, -1/+12I'd like to see the Men's Fitness guide to driving. It might look something like this.

1) Try not to hit any other cars. The driver of any car you collide with will probably not appreciate you high-fiving your passenger and referring to them as a 'ten-pointer'.

2) Part of being a proper driver is the ability to let others that you are approaching their location. Always have your car stereo loud enough to be heard at least three blocks away. By dialing the bass to max is a sure-fire way of letting people know that you exist.

3) While on the freeway, follow the car in front of you as close as possible. Because any good driver knows that the closer you are to the car in front of your car's bumper, the faster you'll get to your destination. Regardless of the fact that the car in front of you is going the same speed as the car in front of them.

4) If you drive an expensive car, let others know it by taking up two parking spots. There's no better way of saying 'I make more money than you do' than by utilizing a four-foot buffer zone in a crowded parking lot. And if someone slashes your tires or smears feces on your car, it just means that they're just jealous of your sweet ride.

5) Talking on your cell phone while driving is a sure-fire way of letting others know that you're important and have much better things to do other than share the road with puny mortals. If you have a 'blue tooth' earpiece, only use it outside of the car. Thus ensuring that anyone who thinks that you may be talking to them instead of an electronic device concealed in your ear will feel like a jackass when they ask you if you are talking to them.
- Halsfield, on 08/02/2008, -0/+1i thought this was a guide to better sleep when i first started reading it. wouldve been pretty funny that way too.
- namelessXsilent, on 08/02/2008, -0/+2that is definitely going to be copy and pasted to Men's Fitness and hit the front page
- NYankee2003, on 08/06/2008, -0/+1eh, more like maxim
lex0nyc, on 08/02/2008, -0/+1Sleep is for those lacking Club-Mate.
chrisinsocalif, on 08/02/2008, -0/+2Where is "get laid?"
- electricwaffles, on 08/02/2008, -0/+4It's on "Five secrets to not getting sleep and being okay with that"
- AWBoy666, on 08/02/2008, -1/+2Digg doesn't know/understand the saying or occasion.
SaMdeR, on 08/02/2008, -1/+1I don't know if this works for everyone, but it works for me. I go to the gym at around 10:30pm and then come back home at 11:40. After that, I just shower and go to bed by around 12. After that, I sleep like a baby until 7:40-8:30.
bcrich999, on 08/02/2008, -0/+0#6 dont follow the advice of the article which tries to make it sound simple...
voze, on 08/02/2008, -0/+1dugg for the top gun reference
cl0n3x, on 08/02/2008, -0/+3The day I stop using the snooze alarm is the day this article stops becoming so painfully obvious (never).
koreaski, on 08/02/2008, -0/+1drink your milk and say your prayers and you can sleep like a dick van dyke
Niz1, on 08/02/2008, -0/+1Why do article always say snooze is bad, ok well it maybe true but it works for me, the way see it im not trying to get extra sleep, I just need to prepare to wake up its a bit of a shock to have to wake up as soon as the alarm goes off, i wake at 7am everyday but set the alarm to 6, and i snooze 6 times, if i press the snooze twice / three times it adds 10 minutes so i can even have one 60min snooze instead of six 10 min snoozes, damn sounds lame lol its one of those things you do but never talk about.
Halsfield, on 08/02/2008, -0/+3real tips to help you sleep better:

1. Ambien - if you do get on this make sure you never ever drink and then take ambien, or mix painkillers and ambien, or all 3. great way to go to sleep and never wake up.

2. Don't leave the tv/pc/music on when you're trying to fall asleep, even if you're not paying attention to it , the visual or auditory stimulation will keep you awake and keep you from getting REM sleep that really helps you get restorative sleep.

3. Exercise about 2-3hours before you want to sleep, it helps burn off energy so you are sleepy when you want to get in bed. Exercising closer to bedtime will keep you awake because of the endorphins.
Gee1004, on 08/02/2008, -0/+1Actually going to digg will help you sleep. Looking at all the iPhone stories will make you sleepy...lol
PimpSetBitch, on 08/02/2008, -0/+1smoke weed?

i guess it wouldnt work because you would be up with munchies
anty45, on 08/02/2008, -1/+1the best way to sleep better is to jerk off before sleeping well i do that and it works great:D
AWBoy666, on 08/02/2008, -1/+2Ambien works well.
Kalidasa, on 08/02/2008, -1/+0How about a little yoga? A good workout with a good cool down can get you in the mood for sleep really fast.

Kalidasa
http://yogawithkalidasa
8ballblack, on 08/02/2008, -0/+1Actually, I've seen a lot of "better sleep" articles on digg, and I have tried many of the "solutions" but I do not happen to feel any better results. This is probably just me...I think I may have to consult a doctor lol.
kylewhitehead, on 08/03/2008, -0/+0Get Into a Routine hah all my life that has been the problem. One week I'm up at 6 am the next 6 pm.

I'm starting to believe in the absolute I will never have a normal sleeping pattern. I've even tried cutting out caffeine, that hasn't worked. When my mind wants to go, I simply can not sleep.
SayanarA, on 08/14/2008, -0/+0http://healthofmylife.com/category/insomnia-treatm ...
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