i try and be in bed for 8 hours, and i usually toss and turn and end up with 6-6.5 hours of sleep. i'm wearing an armband now, so i get pretty accurate sleep readings. I do ok with 6.5 hours of sleep.
i lift 4 days a week, i'm lifting conjugate method, its two days heavy max effort (one upper body one lower body ) and two days dymanic effort (same one upper one lower). I get 3-4 days rest between between muscle groups , and i need all those days. We have a deload worked into the program.

This is something I struggle with, but it's really important (because for me, getting enough rest really makes or breaks me). I struggle with getting to bed at a reasonable hour, because there's not enough hours in the day to get done what I need to get done (but in actuality it's more like I get distracted and get on tangents that keep me from doing what I need to do).

I've found that I need 7 hours of sleep. More or less than that is usually not good, and can make me overly tired the next day. Quality of sleep is important too, and that can be really variable.

I lift 5 days a week (usually sun-thurs.), and I rest fri. and sat. If I'm really busy or tired on one of my lift days, sometimes I'll move one of them to fri. or sat.

Currently I'm not doing any cardio, because I'm really trying to focus on building muscle and just progressing in my lifts. For me I've found that cardio takes up too much of my energy (probably both physical and mental), so that I don't have as much energy for lifting. Not to say that I couldn't lift, I just couldn't lift as much and couldn't dedicate as much time and energy to lifting. I also make sure I dedicate a good 10-15 min of stretching after every lifting workout, which takes time, but it's dramatically reduced my back and neck aches and pains I would sometimes get. I'm definitely going to get back to cardio at some point, but not for the time being.

I struggle to not only get enough sleep, but actually taking rest days as well. I lift 3 days a week and do aerial the other days. I need at least 3 days of silks, and I started pole again, so I'd like to do 2 days of that. I've had to stop Lyra.

In order to get it all in and still have a true day of rest (where I walk or bike), I have to double up on weights and aerial. If I don't kens up doing some sort of weight lifting every single day (body or metal, lol). And that is exhausting.

I don't get enough sleep either. I just can't go to bed early enough and I always wake up in the middle of the night. I need about 7 hours of sleep, but to get that, I need to physically be in bed for more like 8.5-9 hours.

I really applaud you ladies who get up at the butt crack of dawn (and commute!). I'm definitely a night person, hands down. I think I function best on a 1am-8am schedule. Luckily my work schedule is kind of flexible and variable (since I'm in a veterinary residency/PhD program). But there were a couple months last year that I had to commute for externships, so I had to get up around 5am and commute (hour in the morning & sometimes 2 or more in the evening). I felt like I was going to die! :yawn: I literally had no mental or physical energy. I don't know what I'm going to do if my future job(s) have hours like that every single day.

Oh and I also applaud those of you who have kids. I don't think I could do that either

Lifting 4 days a week.
I do not get enough sleep. Mostly because I am on MFP lol. It is 1am and I am up at 7. So I am off to bed now!