Sleep Or Exercise?

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Is it better to sleep more or get up early to go to the gym? It's a very common question. According to studies by the National Institute of Health, exercise not only gives you more energy and improves your mood, it also helps you sleep better. However, if you don't sleep well you don't have the energy to exercise. In conclusion, you need both!

As reported by Real Simple, we must find time to sleep well and exercise. Sound impossible with your busy work and personal agenda? "Exercising and sleeping are equally important to health," says New York-based coach and exercise expert Jessica Bailey. However, she adds that if you have to choose one of the two, you choose to sleep.

Overall, studies show that Americans don't get enough sleep or exercise enough and that they need more of both to improve their health. However, sleep is still the most essential for health since if you are exhausted and have not slept enough, your visit to the gym will not pay you much. You have to listen to the body when it needs rest.

"While you sleep, that's the only time your body has to heal and restore your heart and blood vessels," adds Bailey. "If you often don't sleep well, you're increasing your risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, and even a heart attack."

Although nothing happens if you get up half an hour earlier several days a week to go to the gym, you should make sure you can sleep about seven or eight hours a day without interruption. According to the coach, you can exercise at home while preparing your breakfast if that is easier than getting up early to go to the gym. "Over time, up to two minutes a day does your body good," he concludes from physical activity.