{"id":103,"date":"2024-01-02T18:16:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T17:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.easydigital.shop\/?p=103"},"modified":"2024-01-02T18:16:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T17:16:06","slug":"your-weekly-horoscope-for-december-31-2023-to-january-6-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.easydigital.shop\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"Your Weekly Horoscope for December 31, 2023 to January 6, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

So you can kick off the year in cosmic alignment.<\/p>\n

Sleep is now a sport, and after the first night using my Eight Sleep Pod Cover<\/a> ($2,195) and waking up to a sleep score of 100, I felt like a gold medalist. Rested and ready to take on the world, I got up and cycled through bodyweight exercises<\/a>, got my heart rate up on a run, and Theragunned my muscles, so I was ready for a day of sprinting ahead of me. Then, the twins in the room next to me began whining for their bottles, and I was swiftly ushered back to my reality: one where I am not an Olympic-medalling athlete but a stretched-thin mom who dabbles in fitness for fun.<\/p>\n

Yet, as fitness trackers get better and better at deciphering information from our bodies and telling us how to use it, we don\u2019t necessarily need to be Olympic-level athletes to understand how to optimize our days with movement. Certainly, athletes do this\u2014swimmer Ryan Murphy, basketballer Chelsea Gray, and CrossFitter Any Bream all use Eight Sleep\u2014but so, too, do everyday people looking to find ways to energize without that extra cup of coffee.<\/p>\n

\u201cSleep is undoubtedly one of the most crucial factors for an athlete\u2019s mental and physical health and performance,\u201d says Alexandra Zatarain<\/a>, co-founder and VP of brand and marketing at Eight Sleep. Whether you\u2019re chugging along at the gym to feel better in your day-to-day life or winning medals, understanding the impact of what you\u2019re doing when your head hits the pillow can help to inform how you show up in the gym and beyond.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019ve all become quite accustomed to using fitness trackers in our day-to-day lives\u2014think Apple Watches<\/a>, Oura Rings<\/a>, and Fitbits<\/a>. However, this tracker is different because you don\u2019t wear it per se, but rather sleep on top of it. \u201cThe Pod helps athletes recover better by regulating their body temperature throughout the night,\u201d says Zatarain. \u201cThis optimizes each stage of sleep and leads to enhanced deep sleep, REM sleep, and total sleep time, thus leading to improvements in sleep quality.\u201d<\/p>\n

It has a feature called \u201cAutopilot\u201d that raises and lowers the temperature of the bed\u2014and thus, your body\u2014to help you optimize whatever sleep stage you are in. It\u2019s been clinically proven to increase deep sleep by 34 percent, which helps to impact how you recover and how you feel the next day. According to Zatarain, it does this by dropping your core body temperature in the earlier part of the night to promote deeper sleep, which is beneficial to those who like to work out in the later parts of the day. Working out can raise our core body temperature, which can cause us to have difficulty going to sleep and reduce the quality of deep sleep that we get.<\/p>\n

The technology is driven through \u201cinvisible\u201d sensors, which track your heart rate, heart rate variability, and respiratory rate. \u201cFrom these variables, we can deliver real-time sleep staging,\u201d says Zatarain. Or in other words, the mattress heats and cools you to keep you comfortable and cool, which independent research<\/a> indicates translates to better sleep.<\/p>\n

Then, when you wake up in the morning, it uses all of this data to give you a Sleep Fitness Score that can help to inform your day and how you approach it. The Fitness score is affected by the quality of sleep you get, how closely you follow your sleep routine (i.e. keep a bed and waking time), and the time you spend asleep (between seven and nine hours). It\u2019s a numeric system that\u2019s paired with directives like \u201cGood, Fair, Pay Attention, etc.\u201d so that you can understand how you\u2019re sleeping.<\/p>\n

How Sleep Impacts Your Workout<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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If your workout is your main form of effort, then sleep is your main source of recovery. \u201cSleep is key to repairing damaged tissue,\u201d says Samantha Ward, NASM, CPT<\/a>, Equinox Tier X Coach and EFTI Master Instructor. \u201cTherefore, if you are not sleeping well, your body\u2019s healing process is slowed, creating an increased risk for injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n

Research indicates that sleep helps to regenerate cells that help us to repair our bodily tissues <\/a>and helps to bolster our immune systems<\/a>, which keeps us from getting sick and allows us to stay on our feet. And that translates to us feeling better and being able to work out or do whatever else we want to on a given day.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that one bad night\u2019s sleep means that you might not be able to conquer your workout in the way you would like, Ward warns that\u2019s not necessarily true. \u201cSleep is cumulative. We often look at it as something that is done once during each day rather than viewing it on a macro scale,\u201d she says. \u201cI say this because one bad night of sleep isn\u2019t going to impact your ability to perform and recover as much as several poor nights of sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n

So while the Eight Sleep Pod Cover does provide you with nightly data, it\u2019s a good idea not to fixate on one bad number and what it means for your day, but rather to take trends\u2014several nights of poor quality sleep or elevated heart rate\u2014to heart and adjust your lifestyle accordingly.<\/p>\n

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When I tried the Eight Sleep Pod Cover, I wanted to use it to help my body gauge what it could take on each day. The first few days, my sleep scores were high: 100, 99, 97\u2026 you get the picture. Those days, I felt invincible and could lift and run as much as I felt like I needed to. Then came the first B- night, which on my feet, felt quite different than an A+, despite Ward\u2019s advice. Couple this with the disturbed sleep that happens due to menstrual cycles and babies waking up in the middle of the night, and it\u2019s easy to see how quickly you can fall from the heights of a 100-level sleep.<\/p>\n

Based on your sleep quality, Ward advises tweaking the frequency and intensity of your workouts. On days when I was hitting A-level sleep efforts, I accepted the challenge to do higher-intensity bodyweight training, runni<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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