Wake up easier during the week by not sleeping late on weekends
By Christian Howd | July 28, 2008
If you’re a teacher that doesn’t have a summer job, you may have been taking advantage of the loose schedule to sleep a little later in the mornings. You might also do this on weekends during the school year. But Popular Science has up an article detailing how sleeping late on the weekend makes it harder to wake up during the weekday:
People who have trouble crawling out of bed probably have an inner clock set to late wake-up and sleep times, a condition known as phase delay. It is possible to adjust your phase-delayed body clock, Matheson says, but at a price: No sleeping in on the weekends. “When people sleep late on weekends, they revert to their natural phase-delayed rhythm,” she explains. This makes it harder to wake up early on weekdays.
The next time you’re feeling unrested during the school week, try maintaining the same wake-up time, even over the weekends. And while you still have a little time left before the school year starts, it might be a good idea to get that school wake-up time going pretty soon! Hit the read link for the full article.
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October 19th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
This is really interesting. I never knew that your body worked that way. This would explain why I seem to be so tired all of the time. I am definitely going to have to try to go to sleep at reletively the same time each night in order to be less tired. Thanks for the advice!