I love my sleep. Always have. I’ve been going to bed at 9pm since high school — yeah, I’m just super fun like that.
But now that I’m ancient, like everyone else in Le Club Prehistoric my brain has (partially) closed the window of my REM sleep.
These cycles just don’t last as many minutes any more, and even when they do let me sleep, perchance to dream, those same REM cycles don’t dip as deep.
So I LOVED seeing this article on a simple trick to increase your sleep. It’s exercise, but a specific KIND of exercise. And in case you’re not planning to comb through this research paper in all your spare time, here’s the bottom line results that they found.
- For Aerobic Exercisers who had 60 minutes of aerobic exercise per day.
- sleep duration increased by 23 minutes
- For those who combined Aerobic + Resistance exercises for a combined 60 minutes per day.
- sleep duration increased by 17 minutes
- BUT … just doing straight resistance exercisers for 60 minutes per day.
- sleep duration increased by 40 minutes
I mean, I’m not planning to go full on Arnold Schwarzenegger, just to add resistance exercises to my life.
For employees, how easy is it to encourage them to add this kind of activity … so they can sleep better … so they can think better and be less stressed.
Viva la Resistance!
