• pantyhosewimp@lemmynsfw.com
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    2 days ago

    Force yourself to exercise for 30 minutes – no matter how wimpily you do the exercises – 3 hours before you want to sleep. Shower afterwards even if you just stand under running water.

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      Sport has the opposite effect for me. Light and disturbed sleep all night.

      If I’m passive I can sleep for 16h a day. (Which isn’t good either. )

      I guess people are different.

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        Light exercise should relax, heavy exercise energise.

        As backwards as it sounds.

        As in a relaxing walk in the evening may aid getting sleep, but doing an insane gym session wouldn’t, it’d wake you up. It might make you physically exhausted, but not sleepy.

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        Oh yeah! Sports wakes up the brain: teams, coordination and all that.

        I meant solitary exercise with medium heart rate. Weight lifting, stretching. Focus inward not outward.