One of the best ways to ensure that you can sleep at night — and get quality rest — is to get enough exercise so that your body and mind can relax when your head hits a pillow. But is some form of exercise better than another when it comes to sleep?
That is what a new study, presented at the American Heart Association's Epidemiology and Prevention, Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health conference, seeks to find. Read on to find out.
It learns how different exercises affect sleep.
In this study, researchers wanted to know how different types of exercise affect sleep, so they designed one of the largest and longest-lasting sleep exercise exercises to date.
Just under 400 adults participated, and agreed to follow a variety of training programs: Some do resistance exercises (weight lifting machines), some do aerobics exercises (treadmills, bikes, or ellipticals), and some do your combination of both. The teams were monitored for 60 minutes, three times a week, doing exercise. There was also a control group that did not have a supervised exercise program.
During the year-round study, participants' sleep metrics were also monitored. They reported themselves on things like sleep quality, length of sleep, how long it took them to sleep, and how disturbed they were all night.
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