Fitness Programs

yagforlife.org – Various studies indicate that regular exercise will help improve the quality of sleep in people who have insomnia. But, how the time of exercise affects the ability to fall asleep is less clear.

Most people who suffered chronic insomnia show elevated levels of stress hormones in the blood are abnormally sensitive to stress (hyper aroused). If your stress hormone levels are rising, then the quality of your sleep will get worse. Exercise at first would increase the number of stress hormones. But some time after exercise, these hormones will drop.

You may consider to follow the small experiment to see if you have insomnia problems:

• Over the past two weeks, practice approaching your bedtime. Then each morning, assess the quality of your sleep on a scale of 1 to 10.
• Over the next 2 weeks, practice in the morning or afternoon. Then every morning, still assess the quality of your sleep.
• Each week, add up the total score of the assessment you have made to obtain an average score of each week.

This will indicate whether the exercise affects the quality of your sleep or not. Moreover, it also helps determine the best exercises you can choose to get the best quality sleep. Remember, that during sleep our cells repair and grow muscle. So to get the development you want muscle mass, improve the quality of your sleep.