#80 - Weight Training and Sleep: Keep on Lifting
Jan 01, 2024•26 min
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Episode description
Happy new year! It's 2024 and with a new year comes resolutions to join a gym and get into shape. The podcast has explored exercise and sleep relationships before, but is there a benefit to lifting weights? In this episode we will:
- Touch on current gym use statistics
- Revisit the impact sleep has on weight training, recovery, and athletic gains
- Detail the impact on specific strength training exercises and sleep
- Understand the impact of weight training on sleep quality and depression indices
- Look at research showing sleep apnea improvement in individuals who weight train
Produced by: Maeve Winter
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