In two dishes, good sleep is an ally to your training and bad sleep, an enemy. Because?
While poor sleep does not affect your cardiovascular or respiratory capacity, biomechanically speaking, not getting enough sleep can make exercise feel harder.
This causes you to fatigue more quickly and find it harder to exercise to the best of your ability; In addition, it increases the risk of injury. Therefore, if you sleep poorly, your training performance will be negatively affected.
On the contrary, getting enough sleep can not only give you more drive and strength to maximize your training, but it has positive mental effects: by impacting concentration, mood and focus, getting adequate sleep can better prepare you for training and make it more efficient for you, says Christopher Winter, president of the Charlottesville Clinic for Neurology and Sleep Medicine.
Besides, for a decade it was demonstrated that adequate sleep makes it more likely that people will complete their exercise regimen the next morning and stay motivated to keep doing it.
More sleep, less food
Another way that sleep moves the needle of your state of mind. fitness seen in food. Sleep deprivation is known to affect appetite regulation, resulting in increased food intake —often one that leads to overweight.
In the same way, in the opposite direction (wink wink), getting adequate sleep may be a key component of obesity prevention and weight loss programs. A study saw how people who went from sleeping 6.5 hours to resting between 7 and 8 hours consumed an average of 270 fewer calories per day.
On the other hand, although Exercising promotes mental health and it makes it possible to maintain acute cognition during old age, for those who do not sleep enough what they achieve with the muscles, erase it with the late night.
A London longitudinal study showed that those who were more physically active but slept less than 6 hours on average had faster overall cognitive decline. Thus, after 10 years, their cognitive function was almost equal to that of their age peers who had been less physically active in that time.
What if you have to choose between getting up early to train or continue sleeping? Ideally, Winter says, you don’t have to choose, so you plan your bedtime and wakeup time to be within 7 to 8 hours of each other. But, if the alarm goes off and that’s not the case, choose the pillow.
“I would say that sleep is always the priority, unless your sleep is almost always good in quality and quantity,” Winter stresses. “If she slept seven to eight hours the night before, get up and go to the gym! But if she’s been logging less than six hours on most nights that week, her body will thank you for that extra hour of sleep. If you skip her, she’s likely to log a mediocre workout anyway.”
