Sleep You Can Count On
The boring mechanics of sleep - light, temperature, timing - and what to do at three in the morning when none of it worked.
Priya NairRecovery instructorAll levels(6 reviews)
FeaturedSleep advice has an unfortunate shape: the interventions that work best are dull, and the ones that sell best are gadgets. This course is mostly about light, temperature, and timing, because those three account for most of what you can actually control.
It also spends a full lesson on the part other courses skip - what to do when you’re awake at three in the morning and every rule you followed didn’t help. That night is going to happen, and how you handle it determines whether it stays one night.
What you'll learn
- Anchor your body clock with light instead of willpower
- Set a bedroom temperature and darkness level that does half the work for you
- Handle the three in the morning wake-up without making the next night worse
- Decide whether your sleep tracker is helping or just worrying you
- Build a wind-down that survives a late shift
The curriculum
7 lessons · 51 min · 2 quizzes
- Light is the leverThe one input with more influence on your sleep than everything else combined.
- Cold, dark, and boringThe bedroom setup that does half the work, and what's actually worth spending money on.
- The three in the morning wake-upWhat to do when you're awake in the night, and the response that quietly makes it chronic.
- Light and setup checkQuizThree questions on the first half of the course - light, the room, and the night-time wake-up.
- Should you wear a tracker?What the devices measure, what they guess, and the failure mode with its own diagnosis.
- Sleep on a shifting scheduleLate shifts, early starts, and travel - how to lose the least.
- Sleep checkQuizSix questions on light, room setup, the night-time wake-up, and trackers.
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Priya Nair
Recovery instructor
Priya teaches sleep, rest days, and the parts of training that happen away from the gym. Her background in physical therapy shows up in how skeptical she is of anything sold as a shortcut.
Student reviews
What students say
4.7
6 reviews
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- Adrian C.
Morning light within an hour of waking, and dim lamps in the evening. Two changes, no purchases, and three weeks later I fall asleep in minutes.
- Freya D.
The three in the morning lesson is worth the whole price. Getting out of bed felt completely wrong and it broke a two-year pattern in about a week.
- Rahul S.
Priya is straight about what the trackers actually measure. I took mine off and slept better, which is a slightly funny outcome.
- Georgia H.
Excellent on light and temperature. The shift-work lesson was less relevant to me but clearly written for people who need it.
- Emeka U.
Holding my wake time after a bad night was the hard rule and it worked. Two tired days, then the cycle stopped.
- Ines M.
Cold, dark and boring is an unglamorous checklist and it works. I turned the thermostat down two degrees and stopped blaming the mattress.
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