Want to feel like an Olympian? Take a nap. No, seriously. Everybody's doing it (everybody being Olympians).
"Ryan Lochte takes a nap every day," nap evangelist and CEO of MetroNaps, Christopher Lindholst told us. He's not wrong; Lochte has talked about his napping schedule on more than one occasion, and told USA Today that swimmers in particular need to take naps because of the intense training schedule.
It's not just the male swimmers either. POPSUGAR spoke with Team USA Olympic Swimmer Cammile Adams, who told us that she makes time for a two-hour nap before her daily strength-training sessions. Besides rounding out an intense training schedule, Cammile told POPSUGAR that naps also help mitigate stress; lack of sleep can compound the feelings of pressure around the Olympics and a rigorous schedule. "Real life is going to be really hard when I have to give up my naps," Cammile added.
While most of us aren't working out 30+ hours a week like these professionals, the benefits that Olympians reap from naps can also help us, the everyday athlete.