No he could not, because 35 hours of sleep is different than 15 hours......
Is there a method to quantify the effect of sleep on recovery?
For example, imagine an advanced novice who grinds out his squat sets, achieving linear progress with the mandated 2 day gap and 14 hours of sleep (7 hours a day). Can he also achieve the same with a weekly progression with (theoretically) 3 hours of sleep a day spread over the 5 days?
No he could not, because 35 hours of sleep is different than 15 hours......
My question was if 14 hours of sleep is all that is needed for the trainee to progress irrespective of whether he gets the 14 hours of sleep in two days or across the week. All that assuming that he stays at home, his diet remains the same and ignoring effect of de-training over the week.
In other words, is there a way to quantify the amount of recovery a trainee achieves due to sleep?
Sleep debt builds throughout the week and can, if significant, increase sleep drive during the day. Both of these things compromise recovery (1) and performance (2). 7 hours of sleep per night cumulatively allows restoration whereas less than that produces significant sleep debt and is not compatible with strenuous productive training.
Unless your name is Feigenbaum
well oke I missed the word "training". Was referring to productivity in general, which without puttig you on a pedestool seems almighty at times.
And yes, keepin your lifts at those numbers is pretty fucking respectable. Althoug maybe we shouldnt refer to productivity as the weights but the fact that you just put in the work 3 nights at 5hrs sleep and im running on auto pilot.