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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How to Avoid Sleep Deprivation
Elman: Naps are this funny thing because obviously being sleep deprived is bad for us. And so if you are going to nap, there are ways that are sort of going to interfere with sort of your next sleep. So it's like a little bit better to try and sleep in a half hour later and try and go to bed a half hour earlier. Avoid the nap and avoid the nap, but that's not always practically feasible. Elman: A great place to start is certainly taking stock of how you feel, but also another way to think about it in the context of whoop is looking at your sleep debt.
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