Monday, March 7, 2011

Increasing the Quality of Sleep Through Exercise


Exercise have been proven to help in getting and maintaining you a quality sleep each night. No more need to be sleeping pills dependent if you stretch some of those muscles in the right time and amount in the right schedule. Sleep deprivation or lack of quality or rest can be detrimental to your health. This lack of sleep can result to the lesser period of body repair, brain processing, and renewal of cells. That is why people who have deprived sleeping time look haggard, old, have slow or minimal memory recollection and generally unhealthy. With the changing lifestyle of modern life, keeping a sleeping healthy habit can increase your levels of immunity, stress tolerance, and healthier bodily functions. Studies have also shown that increased observance of quality sleeping can lengthen life expectancy.
Before the industrial revolution, an average person sleeps around 9-10 hours nightly. But when the need for higher income and faster lifestyle has evolved, the average person now has only about 6-8 hours of sleep to enjoy. Some researchers suggest that this has caused the lower life expectancy starting with the baby boomers generation. Health experts also predict that the decline of sleeping hours and quality can create higher risks of susceptibility to diseases and creation of chronic illnesses in the following generation. Thus, a sound sleep in the right amount is important in keeping yourself healthy and active in your waking hours for a longer life.
Cutting to the chase, just what are the reasons for the sleep-exercise connection? Here are some of the gathered and most sensible answers to the skeptics out there.
Exercise can help in reaching a level of body fatigue by the muscle exertion. The brain is wired to detect body fatigue and will gradually switch to sleepy mode when the body has reached a level of tiredness. Others have also observed that people who lack sleep gain weight because they feel lethargic in the morning. This can discourage them from stretching their muscles and find it hard to sleep the night again. The cycle repeats until the person realizes that enough sleep and exercise can help keep those unwanted excess weight away.
Body temperature is also affected by exercise efforts. Morning exercises can help the body maximize the high temperature around the afternoon and helps the lowering of the temperature of the body when sleeping time arrives. Lower body temperature is conducive for sleeping and helps the body arrive in a relaxed state that adds to the deep quality sleep your body needs.
Now there are times when exercising regularly is skipped for some other reasons. But when your body has been used to the routine sleeping time, your body clock takes a natural kick in and you will still sleep soundly at the same time. You do not have to worry if you skipped a few days of exercise as long as you do not neglect performing your physical routines entirely.
Sleep quality and exercise are essential for your body maintenance and recovery. The human body is not a machine and needs enough rest to be able to perform on tip top shape.

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