Learn How To Optimize Your Sleep With Tips From Long-Haul Truckers

Imagine learning how to sleep better from the guy who trains long-haul truck drivers so they can stay on the road for longer and drive more safely without getting drowsy. This article offers some interesting insights about sleep that you might not be thinking about (and that your fitness watch might not suggest to you). Firstly, he suggested sleeping in multiple cycles of 90 minutes each.

Sleep quality, he says, comes from “sleep architecture”, and so more sleep isn’t necessarily better sleep. His other tip is that if you don’t get great sleep during the week, you can make up for it on the weekend by having two consecutive nights of great sleep that cancel out your “sleep debt.” Then you can start the week fresh. His bottom line: “Seven hours of sleep is worse than six hours sleep because seven is not a multiple of an hour and a half.”