Naps: Kristen Holmes and Emily Capodilupo discuss the physical and mental benefits to napping, the concept of sleep debt and how naps help offset it, plus how to incorporate your activities & day strain into planning the timing and duration of your naps.
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You're not going to get into REM sleep unless your nap is at least 90 minutes. The utility of the nap and how like much better performance will be really depends on the form of performance that happens to be important to you today. So a tennis player is going to see a noticeable performance benefit from a 30 minute nap. And what we really tell people is you probably don't want to get too much more than like two to three hours at like the most because it starts to happen when you nap.
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