b. Low-intensity cardiorespiratory work late in the day may help you to
fall asleep.
c. Do not drink coffee, tea or any other stimulant before sleeping. It is best
to avoid stimulants completely.
d. Sleep in a dark room. Take action to eliminate light sources, e.g., use
curtains that do not allow light to pass through.
e. Eliminate as much as possible all sources of noise, and sound proof
your bedroom as well as you can.
f. A warm shower or bath before going to bed should help prepare your
body for sleeping.
g. Stretching immediately before going to bed helps some people to relax.
h. Before closing your eyes and trying to go to sleep, read something that
relaxes you.
i. Shortly before bedtime, do not watch anything on or at a cinema
that stirs up your emotions in a major way.
j. Establish regular sleeping habits. Going to sleep at one night and
then the next is not regularity. Make it . till on a regu-
lar basis, for example. And much better than catching up on lost sleep is
not losing any sleep in the first place.. When you have an unusually good night’s sleep, determine the conditions
that brought it about. en try to create the same conditions in the future.
Conversely, when you have an unusually bad night’s sleep, determine the
conditions that brought it about. en avoid setting up those conditions in
future.Because I am only interested in drug-free training, and primarily
concerned with satisfying the needs of the hard-gaining masses,
some of the methods and values promoted in this book are hereti-
cal relative to much of what is customary in gyms today. ere is
no other approach to take if training methods that are practical
and helpful for drug-free people are to be promoted.