How Light Affects Our Sleep
Here’s an excerpt from an informative post on Mark’s Daily Apple addressing the effects of light on your sleep, in particular, blue light.
Still, blue light is the low-hanging fruit, and there are some simple steps you can take to mitigate its late-night effect on your sleep.
- Keep electronics usage to a minimum or completely eliminate blue light (alarms, TVs, laptops) after dark.
- Go to sleep earlier.
- Use candlelight (read how a fellow MDA reader gave this a try for 30-days).
- Keep your room as dark as possible and your sleeping quarters pitch black.d
- Install F.lux (totally free) on your computer to cut down on blue light emissions.
- If you want to try a somewhat extreme experiment you could even wear orange safety glasses at night.
Read full article here.
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Legitness of the Week
Lones 190×5 Back Squat (PR)
Vanessa 195×5 Back Squat (Sweat Shop Record)
Alex 435×5 (Sweat Shop Record)
Jim M. 150×5 Back Squat (PR)
Brenna 5 consecutive pullups (March Goal exceeded)
Mark 20 consecutive pullups
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Thursday’s WOD:
Perform 1 Deadlift and 1 Burpee the first minute… 2 Deadlifts and 2 Burpees the second minute …. 3 Deadlfits and 3 Burpees the third minute…. etc, etc. up to 21 minutes. When you reach a set that you are not able to complete all the Deadlifts and Burpees within the minute, drop back down to 2 Deadlifts and 2 Burpees and begin working your way back up.
Score is total Deadlifts from COMPLETED rounds only. Deadlift weight is 65-70% of 5RM.
