
Sleep and Energy During The Day
When it comes to sleep we need to know a few important facts:
- Amount and quality of sleep directly impact daily energy
- The more sleep one has correlated with athletic performance
- After a good night’s sleep, we all feel optimal.
Quite literally sleeping occurred during the night, because it is the hardest time for us humans to go and get the energy it would require to replace our action at night.
That is why sleep is so detrimentally important to energy levels.
Sleeping helps to conserve energy, and at that, the energy that would otherwise be wasted.
Although, when examining the following reasons, sleep is much more important than just conservation of energy.
Amount and Quality Of Sleep and Energy
During sleep, when the brain is reinforcing information, energy is being conserved, and a whole host of other functions are being performed, something detrimentally important takes place.
Repair of any cellular damage, and the creation of hormones.
When we sleep our bodies, conduct a process that uptakes the raw materials we got throughout the day.
This means most of our hormone production comes during the night, for example leading to a huge (1000x) increase in growth hormone during the night.
Although, if sleep is not happening in the correct amount or with an appropriate quality, these productive growth periods get passed over.
It’s the same reason after a tremendous workout paired with horrible sleep, you wake up sore just about everywhere.
More Sleep Correlates To Better Athletic Performance.
This also falls into line with many studies that shows a benefit in sleep and exercise.
The study shows that sleep has up to a 10–20% increase in athletic performance (1) while the researchers are still trying to figure out how to utilize it.
Although, in reality, the way that we can use the influence of sleep and exercise is through getting better sleep.
Which will increase serum testosterone levels (or stabilize the ones damaged from restricted sleep.) This falls into the camp of influencing athletic performance yet again (2.)
Leading to a point I am sure we all know (well at least those of use have been not sleep deprived in a while.)
After A Good Night’s Sleep, We Feel Optimal
Most of the country is sleep deprived, only about 31% of high-school students even experience a completed 8 hours of sleep a night (3.)
Coincidentally, many of us wonder why our exercise is lacking, our performance suboptimal and our health withering.
Utilizing a good night’s sleep is one of the best ways to feel optimally again.
In all honesty, think about how good you feel after sleeping without an alarm, on the weekends, stress-free.
Is it whole 9 yards different right?
That is one of the biggest, most beneficial parallels between sleep and exercise.
Better, more quality sleep, will minimize stress and enhance exercise performance and recovery with paramount success.
Your Action Plan For Sleep and Exercise.
The lowdown is that you need more, better quality sleep.
There are a plethora of ways for you to achieve it, but ensure a couple of things are in order:
- Your getting between 7–10 hours of sleep every night
- There isn’t a period where you wake up in the middle of the night
- You don’t feel lethargic during the day.
Sleeping more will provide a valuable tool for you to enhance performance and increase exercise capacity.
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Originally published at heightenedliving.com on July 10, 2016.