Crossfit Level 3 - Make Your Life Better : Get Horizontal (PDF) (Journal) (D5)

Question 1

What is retrospective bias?

Answer 1

Term used in psychology to explain the phenomeon that describes wh ypeople tend to remember the past differently than it actually played out, often romanticzing it into something it wasnt.

Question 2

There’s an obvious connection between sleep and what?

Answer 2

physical recovery

Question 3

What 3 hormones are connected with sleeep?

Answer 3

• growth hormone
• leptin
• cortisol

Question 4

What does the growth hormone aid with?

Answer 4

Bone and muscle recovery

Question 5

What does the growth hormone have to do with sleep?

Answer 5

Growth hormone is released when you sleep. 50 to 60 percent of the growth hormone released by your body is released at night when your asleep. And most of the growth hormone released happens in teh first half of the night.

Question 6

What is the second reason you want your body to be releasing adequate amounts of the growth hormone?

Answer 6

It stimulates the release of triglycerides from fat cells.

In other word, we use more energy from fat if we are getting adequate growth hormone

Question 7

What does the hormone leptin do?

Answer 7

• when you’re asleep at night your fat cells repress your appetite by releasing leptin
• leptin regulates insulin

Question 8

Why is cortisol the worst thing to have in your body long term?

Answer 8

It stops you from using the energy from food properly and it causes you to put on weight and break down muscle tissue.