In 1964, 17-year-old Randy Gardner set the sleep deprivation world record, clocking 264 hours under the beady eye of Stanford sleep researcher Dr. Dement. His parents must have been so proud. Gardner experienced impaired short-term memory and concentration, hallucinations, paranoia, and deluded behavior. After a couple days of catch-up sleep, Gardner appeared to undergo no further negative consequences of his experiment, as corroborated during multiple sleep analyses.

In this model of acute sleep deprivation, an otherwise healthy, young adult suffered no durable, negative consequences. But is this applicable to the rest of us?  Continue Reading…

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DAILY TRAINING

AMRAP in 20 minutes:

15 KB Swings (55)(35)

30 Air Squats

15 Hand-Release Pushups