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I sometimes do very strenuous workouts at night because that's when my sportsball practices are. When that happens, I also have trouble sleeping. In particular I have to get up to pee a lot.
Even though you say it doesn't matter when you do the workouts, it has to matter somewhat, right? For example, if you did a workout 2 days ago you would sleep better than if you did one today.
In any case, if you figure it out let me know! Claude's answers seem to make sense though:
Not sure there's anything to be done, honestly. From a practical level, try to give yourself more than 7hr 40m to sleep. Obviously its better to sleep through the night, but it's okay to wake up if you get overall enough.
Thank you taking your time to respond!
I experience severe side-effects from insomnia so on day 2 I usually just sleep easier just from the sheer lack of sleep on the previous day. But after intense workouts the symptoms usually persist for 2-3 days.
That's what I have been doing, more or less. If I don't get enough sleep during the night, I just wake up later, but I find it inconvenient enough from the work-life balance standpoint to actually try to resolve the underlying issue.
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