I wrote the “Sleep is my priority” text on the 11th of January, 2026. It was a second text I wrote on that day.
The longer I do rucking, the more I realize that sleep has become my priority. It had come quite naturally. I did not plan to do it. Still, since I started doing rucking, I noticed that I needed more sleep so that my muscles, mind, and whole body needed more sleep to become much more powerful than before. When I hear people boasting they do not need much sleep and that they can wake up early in the morning and be effective in their life and work, some kind of alert appears in my mind. I do not discuss with these people, leaving them with their knowledge that they are better performers and healthier if they wake up early in the morning.
I am not one of them.
For over one year (to be more precise, since I finished reading Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time” at the end of 2024), I have been waking up on weekends at 12 p.m. For over one year, during weekends, I usually sleep between 10 and 12 hours. Why did I mention reading Proust’s works of art? It was because I was getting up at 10 a.m. to read it for two hours between the middle of August 2023 and the end of 2024. I did not give myself enough space to sleep longer. Today, during the working week, I sleep between 7 and 9 hours. Earlier, I did not sleep that much.
I would say I was sleeping between 5 and 7 hours during the working week and from 7 to 8 hours during the weekend.
Rucking made me aware that to grow muscles, to make my mind work better, I must get much longer sleep than I did earlier. I simply felt it, because when I slept too little, my mood and energy were really low. That’s how sleep became my priority. I know I must sleep long to be healthy.
