Exercise before bed impairs sleep quality? Understand

Sleep Week began on Friday (14), runs until Thursday (20), and has played light on the importance of having a good night’s sleep and its impact on health.

The relationship between physical activity and sleep is one of the main concerns of people looking to sleep. There are many doubts about how harmful to sleep quality can be an exercise done at night, hours before bedtime.

The answer, however, varies from person to person. This is what explained Pulmonologist Erika Treptow of the Sleep Institute, in an interview with CNN . According to the doctor, physical activity can both function and stimulating and relaxing, depending on the person’s organism.

“Physical exercise It can be relaxing, the person does the exercise and he feels that he will sleep quickly, that it is very quiet. For others, it may have more stimulating. The person is very alert and has difficulty starting sleep, ”described Treptow.

The indicated, according to the doctor, is that physical activities are avoided in the two hours before the time to go to sleep.

“For some people, if it’s not a strenuous exercise, it can even be done a few hours before bedtime. What we always ask is that at least two hours before bed, we try not to do the exercise. ”

Check out 7 tips for good sleep hygiene and sleep better.

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Was this content originally published to exercise before bed impairs sleep quality? Understand on CNN Brazil.

Source: CNN Brasil

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