Nervous before a peak performance event? Brod and Bod's 100 ideas for getting a good night's sleep the night before the performance.

1. 1. Do the peak performance a lot
2. Often perform at a less than peak level
3. Repeat the performance many times before the peak event
4. Sleep long 2 nights before
5. Control time for sleep for weeks before
6. Go to bed at the same time each night
7. Don't drink alcohol
8. Don't take drugs
9. Don't take sleeping pills
10. Take a little bit of ibuprofen
11. Keep a routine
12. Meditate
13. Be logical about consequences of less than peak performance
14. Employ optimistic self-talk
15. Analyze negative thoughts
16. Prepare to go to bed for an hour without TV
17. Prepare to go to bed for an hour without reading
18. Prepare to go to bed for an hour without sex
19. Don't have sex the night before
20. Or do have sex the night before
21. Or have sex 2 nights before
22. Or no sex for a week before
23. Or no sex for a month before
24. Promise to have sex after the peak performance
25. Don't imagine you will have sex during the peak performance
26. Take melatonin
27. Hot bath before bed
28. Plan your event in detail before the evening before the event
29. Take a shot of Scotch before bed
30. Take a sleeping pill
31. Do not think about the event the night before
32. Watch a movie the night before
33. Read a book the night before
34. Get a massage
35. Be alone the night before
36. Be with an understanding and supportive person the night before
37. Play cards the night before
38. Sleep in an oxygen tent
39. Sleep with a dog
40. Sleep with the windows open
41. Sleep naked
42. Sleep with socks on
43. Sleep in warm pajamas
44. Make plans for after the peak performance
45. Invite friends to the performance
46. Sleep in a nice hotel
47. Sleep at home
48. Do the dishes and just go to bed
49. Do not take out the trash the night before the performance
50. Remember, it is a mind thing; laugh at yourself.

2. 1.Stop midway during sex to reserve heightened energy !
2. experience sex in simulated performance positions ex. backstroke, butterfly, breastroke
...etc!
3.visualize your performance weeks before event
4. perfect visual action week by week until your visualization performance is detailed to
perfection!
5. practice verbally ciquing out all participating contestants!
6. View video of yourself performing event prior to peak performance .
7. view someone else's performance prior to peak performance .
8. get hypnotized before peak performance
9. Read a sexy novel before performance.
10. Read asexual novel in a sauna.
11. Tell someone close to you how you plan to excel in the event.
12. Keep a journal .... tracking your moods and physical behavior a month before event.
13. Stay away from negative people ...who bring you down...
14. Make sure you get all the massages you have time for !
15. Spend time with loving, caring and supportive. people who relax you, but who are
competitive!
16. Wrap your body in Saran Wrap and perform the event.
17. Suspend your body from a high bar !
18. Grease your body up .... perform your event.... feeling the difference...
19. Believe in yourself ... create a positive mantra for yourself....
20. Treat yourself better!
21. Project your actual goal before peak performance and write it down.
22. Spend time in a hot tub to sooth your aches and pains before peak performance.
23. Place your bod in an ice tub to rejuvinate your entire being...shock it...wake it up!
24. Spend time eating only what you crave for and enjoy this meal with a meaniful friend.
25. Mentally place yourself in an experimental mode...thinking you never participated in
this particular event...just do it!
26. Try different ways to practice before the peak performance..blind fold yourself, place
strap weights on limbs.
27.Experiment with anything you can think of that will enhance your peak performance.
Just try it!
28. Tell yourself ...no fear....no failure ...just confidence.
29. The week before the peak performance begin to build a pattern of behavior and repeat
it day after day to the point at which it is done automatically.
30. Surround yourself with positive people and have them brainstorm their ideas that may
help/inspire your peak performance (this can be done a month prior to peak
performance).
31. Experiment with the number of hours of sleep you need beforehand
32. Wear a sleep hat
33. Swim in the evening beforehand
34. Put ankle weights on for sleeping

3. 35. Try sleeping upside down
36. Try sleeping on the floor
37. Try sleeping outside for a week
38. Sleep with a blindfold
39. Plunge into ice water beforehand
40. Shave your head
41. Be restrained for an hour before bedtime
42. Tie yourself to a tree before bedtime
43. Wear a fat suit (preferably heated) for a week prior to performance
44. Mediate in the center of a lake before bedtime
45. Call a friend for forgiveness before bedtime
46. Go to church the day before
47. Create a song about the performance event
48. Build a monument to your performance
49. Have your friends write ideas about their performance tips
50. Take a friend out the night before and do whatever the friend wants to do