Sweet Dreams Thru Excercise
Sleep and Sports are a perfect match
Sleep and Sports go well together: who is physically active will regularly get better, deeper and relaxed sleep, and improve ones general well-being. This is the result of a study performed by the University of Basel, Switzerland. Swiss researchers studied nearly 500 young people at the age of about 17 years over a prolonged period of time. Slightly more than half of all participants actively moved around several hours every day doing soccer practice, swim, walk or just spent time in fresh air, while the others were significantly less active. The resulting analysis showed this: the sporting youngsters could fall asleep faster, enjoy better sleep and were able to concentrate better during the day.
Sleep & Sport: Men benefit even more
Especially the lazy ones among the participants were encountering tiredness during the day and suffered more often from depressions and anxiety. That should be reason enough to encourage everyone to get up and become more active. Our advice: If you want better sleep, you should put together a training or workout plan, but not too late in the evening, because the cycle usually get you too hyped up to sleep well. Incidentally, the positive effect of regular exercise was more significant in men than women.
