Exercising within 4 hours of bedtime messes with your sleep

Sweat dreams?

While trying to get ripped is an admirable goal, new research reveals that doing it at night might just be muscling into your REM cycle.

High-intensity High-intensity workouts four hours or less before bed were linked to poorer sleep quality, later bedtimes and a higher resting heart rate.

They were also associated with lower heart rate variability, meaning less variation in the time between heartbeats, which is generally a sign of stress or poor recovery.


 


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