{"id":196377,"date":"2025-10-08T02:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T02:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/196377\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T02:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T02:03:09","slug":"the-best-time-to-exercise-before-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/196377\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Time to Exercise Before Bed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cAlthough exercise\u00a0tires you out, the stimulation of your sympathetic nervous system provides an energy boost<\/a>,\u201d says Meurling. \u201cSo although you may fall asleep that sleep could be delayed or the quality might be poorer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Exercise during the day, he says, can assist with a good night\u2019s sleep.<\/p>\n

\u201cExercise does help in a number of ways,\u201d says Meurling. \u201cIt\u2019s good for anxiety<\/a>, and exertion during the day stimulates melatonin<\/a> production, one of the important regulators in your brain.\u201d Melatonin is a hormone that rises at night and drops during the day and is often prescribed as a supplement for people who can\u2019t sleep.<\/p>\n

But the real key to exercise and sleep timing may be not so much when you do it, but how regular you are about when you do it. Sleep scientists have a name for this: \u201cZeitgebers\u201d or time givers. Discovered in the 1950s, Zeitgebers are the cues that let your body know when to wake and when to drop off. The biggest and most powerful time giver is light but right up there, running a close second place, is exercise.<\/p>\n

Bottom line: There is no one-size-fits-all best time. But by consistently exercising at the same time (roughly) every day you will be able to train your internal clock to deliver max vitality and the ability to get some rest when you need it.<\/p>\n

This story originally appeared in British GQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAlthough exercise\u00a0tires you out, the stimulation of your sympathetic nervous system provides an energy boost,\u201d says Meurling. \u201cSo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[49,48,415,7606,407,84,8624,52820,1776,18549,406],"class_list":{"0":"post-196377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cardio","11":"tag-digital_syndication","12":"tag-fitness","13":"tag-health","14":"tag-longevity","15":"tag-sleep-and-recovery","16":"tag-strength-training","17":"tag-textbelowcentergridwidth","18":"tag-wellness"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}