HOW MUCH SHOULD YOU SLEEP AND HOW NOT ENOUGH SLEEP AFFECTS YOUR WORKOUT

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Have you ever felt that you don't have enough energy to start your workout? Have you ever struggled with your workout and couldn't continue for more than 20 minutes?

Well, you should really focus on getting some better sleep. A good night’s sleep is the key to having the energy we need to conquer the day, and yet, more than 30% of us don’t get the seven hours of sleep that we need per night just to stay healthy.
Today we are going to focus on how much sleep do you need and how not enough sleep could affect your workout and day in general.

Scientific research makes clear that sleep is essential at any age. Sleep powers the mind, restores the body, and protects practically every system in the body.
Sleep plays the all-important role of restoring your immune and endocrine systems the latter is responsible for creating performance hormones like testosterone and human growth hormone throughout your body
personally, I could tell you that you should regulate your sleep and sleeping between 7-9 hours per night, might just increase your energy throughout the day and you'll feel a lot healthier and as we speak about fitness, it might just help you get prepared for your workout better, how's that?
The more you control your sleep, the better your athletic recovery and improvement in performance will be!
That's what science has to say about how sleep affects your workout. But there's no greater expert on how sleep affects your workout than you.

YOU WON'T BE AT YOUR BEST WITHOUT REST!
Dr. W. Chris Winter, a sleep specialist said that people just think that they have enough energy even though their sleep isn't enough! Winter explains that you may feel okay, and even have the energy you need to get through your day, but the research is clear that when it comes to exercise performance, you’re definitely not okay.
In fact, people who exercise may need more sleep than their inactive counterparts, especially when they exercise at a high intensity.
Your physical performance may decline after a bad or restricted sleep at night, A bad sleep can just make it harder for you to workout, moreover, it may cause serious discomfort as you perform your sets and it becomes less effective in your development since you lack the energy you need and your tiredness starts to play a huge role.
In addition to making your workouts feel harder, poor sleep can wreck your motivation to work out at all. A study has shown a few participants that had to work out after a bad night and they all were less likely to continue their exercises.
The less sleep they got the shorter their workouts were.
Not enough sleep can also affect your body's recovery, in other words, after a tough workout, you should really manage to have a good sleep because when you don’t sleep, your muscles can’t fully restock their energy stores.
A bad sleep might just ruin your next session since your body didn't recover properly and you just keep feeling pain in your muscles.
Sleep is a part of life and it will always be relevant to our growth and development as human beings
Personally, I changed my sleeping habits and I'm trying my best to sleep at least 7 hours every night and it works for me!
I feel great at workouts and it definitely brings that extra energy that I need.
I recommend you all to not take it for granted and know the fact that sleep is an important factor for your health and it's bigger than just an easy thing that you can actually do.
As much as sleep can help you throughout your exercises it can definitely contribute a lot more to your day.
Just build your workout schedule and don't forget to emphasize that sleep is something that you can't throw out of the equation.

Hope that this post was informative and I hope that it helped y'all witness how important sleeping actually is!
Make sure to like and share this post if you enjoyed it and also don't forget to comment and share some of your own ideas.
Also, check out our Facebook group "Barthletics Fam" for more info and knowledge.
 
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