What you do in the gym is important, when it comes to working out, but what you do outside the gym- what you eat, what you drink and especially how you sleep is just as crucial. In fact, for exercise to actually work you must get a good sleep.
W. Christopher Winter, MD. The president of Charlottesville Neurology and sleep Medicine and the author of the sleep solution, says that “we exercise for a purpose such as to increase lean muscle mass, cardiovascular health, to improve endurance and much more. All of these goals require sleep.” Exercise does not deliver those benefits, without sleep. You undermine your body, if you don’t sleep.
Sleep will build up the muscles worked- during exercise, gives your body time to recover and conserve energy. When we get good quality sleep, the body produces growth hormone. Growth hormones makes us grow during childhood and adolescence.
Winter says, when we are older, it helps us build lean muscle and helps our body repair during a hard workout, when we have torn ourselves up. For athletic recovery growth hormone, sleep is very essential.
According to the study authors, people with a self-reported sleep time of less than 6.5 hours completed moderate- intensity workouts (running or walking on a treadmill, riding a stationary bicycle) four times a week for six weeks. At the end of the experiment, they reported, per night they got an extra 75 minutes of sleep.
Winter says, exercise has a chemical effect on the brain. Adenosine makes us feel sleepy because physical activity creates more adenosine in the brain.
To maintain your circadian rhythm (that is your body’s internal clock) working out really helps and morning exercise primes your body to sleep better at night.
According to research, the more efficient sleepers, are people who reported greater exertion before bed. They also woke up less at night, slept faster and deeper. Moderate- intensity workouts before bed helped soothe presleep anxiety.
At night if you’re not getting seven to eight hours of sleep, then you have to change your schedule, so that you will be able to achieve daily, the minimum amount of sleep. Without sacrificing your sleep, you should be able to figure out how to manage your regular workouts. Both should be given priority for a healthy living.
