Why go shopping rather tired, and getting to know - after a good sleep
A Life / / December 19, 2019
The fatigue has both pluses and minuses. For example, people are less tired at risk, it is sometimes useful. But everyone knows that the worse weary body carries the load. We'll show you what else to expect from fatigue and how you can use to their advantage moments when you valites feet.
When you're tired, you're less at risk
Known proverb teaches us that The morning is wiser than the evening. Since ancient times, it is recommended to take important decisions after a good night's sleep. But sometimes your fatigue can play in your favor.
After a series of five studiesMonika Lisjak, Angela Y. Lee.The Bright Side of Impulse: Depletion Heightens Self-Protective Behavior in the Face of Danger., Scientists have discovered that weary people do not want to engage in risky activities. They are more likely to choose the products positioned as safe and more likely to take precautions, such as checking health.
So if you need to make a decision about spending money or going to the doctor, you will be tired a good helper. Arrange the experiment: go to the store after a hard day and pay attention to how much you make impulsive purchases. Certainly less than usual.
On the other hand, fatigue can prevent you from making new contacts and gain interesting experience. Since the tired state you feel vulnerable and do not want to risk it, you can be ashamed to meet helpful person at the event or during the trip will not want to risk very little to get incredible impressions.
Knowing how fatigue affects the decision-making, you can build your schedule so that on trips to sleep enough, and before important events to have time to take a nap.
Fatigue pushes us to old habits
Not to good or bad, namely to old. If you have a firmly entrenched habit to walk before going to bed when you are tired, you find it easier to go for a walk than to resist the habit.
And if you strengthen the habit of eating right, it will be tired or push you to to eat junk food.
In this story, there are both positive and negative aspects:
- If you have a lot of good habits, fatigue will only help you to comply with them.
- If you're just trying to change, fatigue will pull you back.
As for food, then you can afford a little help. Write on a piece of paper the names of the foods that you eat according to the concept proper nutrition. When you're too tired to come up with dinner, look at the list and select the dish easier.
Tired body is not working properly
Our body is also having a hard time due to lack of sleep. studies have provenCheri D. Mah, Kenneth E. Mah, Eric J. Kezirian, William C. Dement.The Effects of Sleep Extension on the Athletic Performance of Collegiate Basketball Players.That weary athletes demonstrate results that are worse than usual. They have a reduced reaction speed and level of endurance, it is necessary to squeeze out the remains of the body forces.
Athletes who slept enough, there was an improvement of the results. The results were similar for swimming, tennis, basketball and football.
If sleep is not enough, the muscles do not have time to recover. They work just as well the next day, there is a risk of injury. Constant lack of sleep is even more dangerous, because the effect is cumulative.
It was even found an associationMedical News Today.Connection Between Sleepiness And Pro-Athlete Careers Revealed By 2 New Studies. between sports career duration and amount of sleep in baseball players. The figure below shows the Athletes and their sleepiness score. The higher it is, the more sleepy feeling study participant.
Athletes in blue uniforms were active players in three years after the study, in white - were in bad shape or even finished career.