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What is more important: sleep or exercise?

On most occasions, we find ourselves confused to choose between the importance of good sleep and exercise routine. Both of these are of paramount importance, but guess which one you should pick while you are make to choose.

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Written By: Aishwarya Iyer | Published : September 7, 2018 10:54 AM IST

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You return home after a hard day's work at 11 pm. You hit the sack around 1 am and surely, have set an alarm to wake up and exercise at 6 am. No matter how hard you try to convince yourself to get up, you just give in to your body's demand and continue sleeping till 8 am. You wake up, quite regretfully and hurry to work at 9.30 am. Familiar scenario? Then read on.

When you do have schedules where you body van either sleep for an hour more or exercise for that 1 hour, we generally seem to get puzzled about what can be done. When that is the case, just choose sleep, say experts. Yes, you read that right. Many experts keep reiterating that while lack of exercise might give you a host of problems like obesity, anxiety etc, lack of sleep could be the worst thing you could do to yourself. Because not only does it cause health issues like obesity or cardiovascular issues, but it also bolsters your mind.

This is not to say that exercising is unimportant, but it means that if you have choose between one among the two- due to time constraints, choose sleep. Here are 5 ways to sleep better:

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  1. Avoid electronics before bed: Do we really need to get started about this? We all know that when you keep staying up because of your phone and your urge to reply to everything that comes on your message inbox or to watch the last episode on Netflix, you are, indeed troubling yourself by stripping off your body of sleep. DO NOT do this, please.
  2. Binge eating: Not only is eating that choco-chip cookie late in night bad for your waistline, but it is bad for your sleep cycle too. When you eat anything with a high glycemic index, your body works extra to process that food, thereby not taking rest.
  3. Mattress: Believe it or not, memory foam mattresses do give you a good night's sleep. You need to sleep well, for your body to function like a machine. Therefore, choosing the right mattress as well as pillow is very very important.
  4. Stick to a routine: Let your body get accustomed to one sleep time and wake up time. Erratic schedules could wreck your sleep cycle and therefore, cause various other issues like insomnia etc.
  5. Pamper yourself to sleep: Apply that moisturizer or you could have a warm water bath or just do whatever makes you happy and at peace. All of this will help you in getting good sleep.
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