migz writes:
"Reuters reports on a study form Arizona State University in Phoenix.
[Analyzing the] poll also asked participants about their exercise habits, such as whether they worked out regularly and, if so, whether they were active in the morning, afternoon or evening. Evening was considered to be within four hours of going to sleep.
Though morning exercisers reported better sleep then non-exercisers, there was no significant difference between evening exercisers and non-exercisers."
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Evening Workouts Don't Disturb Sleep
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(Score: 5, Funny) by FatPhil on Tuesday March 04 2014, @10:19AM
You were all thinking it. I just thought I'd be the first to say it out loud.
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 04 2014, @10:38AM
Does it count if you're alone?
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 04 2014, @12:15PM
The title still applies! :D
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 04 2014, @02:06PM
Reminds me of something I've once heard:
"He who sleeps, does not sin. He who sins before it, sleeps better."
(Score: 5, Funny) by radu on Tuesday March 04 2014, @11:01AM
The results are not usable; they confused the participants by asking them the same question twice. To confuse them even more, they slipped in between the identical (or maybe not-so-identical?!) questions a vague definition of the well-enough-known English word "evening"... or maybe they mean something else than just "evening"... now they ask it again... what was the question again? it isn't even evening now... what do they actually want from me? ... I'm scared...
(Score: 3, Funny) by regift_of_the_gods on Tuesday March 04 2014, @01:28PM
Hmm, this doesn't seem to be a good study design.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Hell_Rok on Tuesday March 04 2014, @11:33AM
I always seems to sleep better after I do my weights routine at around 6pm.
(Score: 1) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday March 04 2014, @06:42PM
Anecdotal as well but working out past 5:00 PM for me has a very negative impact on my sleep. I actually mentioned this to my family over Thanksgiving and they all have the same experience. Maybe it is genetic....
(Score: 4, Funny) by WizardFusion on Tuesday March 04 2014, @11:58AM
I forgot to go to the gym today, that's every day now for the last 10 years.!
(Score: 2, Interesting) by nightsky30 on Tuesday March 04 2014, @12:35PM
Keep fighting the good fight.
(Score: 5, Funny) by yarp on Tuesday March 04 2014, @12:57PM
Fighting? Sounds dangerously like exercise.
(Score: 2) by nobbis on Tuesday March 04 2014, @01:47PM
does exercise improve the memory ?
It's easy to look up when your mind's in the gutter
(Score: 1) by egcagrac0 on Tuesday March 04 2014, @02:10PM
For dynamic RAM only, not static RAM.
(Score: 3, Informative) by cosurgi on Tuesday March 04 2014, @12:49PM
Guys, aren't you reading the summary or what? The middle sentence in the summary is duplicated. There are already 7 comments in this story and nobody noticed?
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(Score: 4, Funny) by nightsky30 on Tuesday March 04 2014, @01:02PM
It was noticed, but I was trying to cut the editors some slack cut the editors some slack.
(Score: 2, Informative) by cosurgi on Tuesday March 04 2014, @01:09PM
yeah! I might as well cut them three pieces of slack :) cut them three pieces of slack :)
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(Score: 1) by migz on Tuesday March 04 2014, @01:24PM
It was my sub, sorry the quote was duplicated. Say with that keen eye for detail, and willingness, and interest to step up and comment, have you ever considered a second-job as editor? Just saying...
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(Score: 2) by LaminatorX on Tuesday March 04 2014, @03:36PM
Fixed, thank you.
(Score: 1) by cykros on Tuesday March 04 2014, @04:45PM
It would be bad form to come to a site running slashcode and then have the audacity to actually read the fine summary. The traditional way of going about things is to read roughly 1/3 of the headline and then discuss it with people who read a different 1/3 of the same headline resulting in inane arguments and accidentally interesting discussions about other things entirely.
And don't even get me started on the bad etiquette involved with actually reading the ARTICLE...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 04 2014, @01:33PM
Doing some workout on your own as part of a daily routine will probably have limited influence. Doing a competitive sport will be a different story.
Also the definition of evening is quite broad, doing some workout just literally before jumping into bed or several hours before you even think of sleep is, I assume quite different as well.
So agreed with a previous poster, this study doesn't really tell us much.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by GeminiDomino on Tuesday March 04 2014, @02:02PM
In my experience, working out *imposes* sleep (even doing so right after waking up). I tried the whole "workout in the morning before work" thing, and ended up spending the entire day trying not to waffle-face at my desk. I've never seen the supposed endorphin-rush people always talk about when working out, I'm just tired and sore. :P
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by tibman on Tuesday March 04 2014, @04:14PM
It seems reserved for the very fit. In the US Army we did morning workouts for about an hour. At peek fitness they did nothing for me except provide a wake up. Now that i have a cubical body, workouts make me sore and want to recuperate by resting.
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(Score: 1) by cykros on Tuesday March 04 2014, @04:49PM
I'm not sure about imposing sleep, but in my experience, the best cure for insomnia is a good few mile walk, or a mile run. I tend to play Ingress one night a week with an 8-15 mile walk ending around 3 or 4 am, and those nights are definitely the ones I sleep best on.
(Score: 4, Funny) by VLM on Tuesday March 04 2014, @02:22PM
When I was a hard core lifter (a few decades ago?) I found it an interesting balance to lift not too long after I eat because I'd feel nauseous and hungry, yet not too soon after eating or I'd feel the same sick way. This is real hard core heavy lifting, not the stereotypical gym bunny stuff like walking on a treadmill for 10 minutes while talking or bravely describing "standing around the weightroom while texting" as weightlifting.
Anyway the point is if an intense leg day makes my legs hurt or an intense arm day makes me feel like puking, its going to affect my sleep. To say nothing of muscle cramps from sweating enough to screw up my sodium/potassium balance if I don't eat a (literal) banana. But I saw a lot of folks in the gym not getting fit and not really exercising, which is going to cloud the study.
Yes I think if you flirt with the cardiobunnies (do they still call them that?) for an hour and never break a sweat, you'll probably sleep pretty well. If you throw up a little in your mouth from hunger and heartburn and your muscles feel like they were torn off your body and BBQed and random leg cramps cripple you hours later unless you watch what you eat, that might have a slight effect on sleep patterns, yeah.
(Score: 2) by elf on Tuesday March 04 2014, @02:53PM
When I go for a run in the evening I find it effects my sleep, it might not effect my ability to go to sleep but I always end up having an agitated nights sleep.
(Score: 1) by CoolHand on Tuesday March 04 2014, @03:24PM
As long as my workout ends > 1hr prior to sleepytime, I'm fine... ...and this article seems a bit outside the "nerd news" type thing that normally gets posted.. ?? I mean seriously, how many nerds are worried about how workouts affect their sleep patterns?
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Common Joe on Tuesday March 04 2014, @04:00PM
I am, but I already figured out what worked best for me: don't work out within 3 hours of sleeping. I used to be a twig, but gained about 25 pounds of muscle. That muscle, when it works out, generates a lot of heat. I have to shed that heat before I can sleep. That's why they tell people not to take hot showers before bed.
To more directly address your concern: one performs at peak condition if one has a balance between mind and body. If you neglect either, you are not at your peak. One affects the other. I strongly encourage all nerds to work out, but I understand there are practical considerations. I have physical issues that require me to work out and it can be a very difficult thing to achieve that balance... and I don't even have kids. I suspect others have physical issues as well that can be "cured" by working out among other life style changes which will include the work out.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday March 04 2014, @05:32PM
"I mean seriously, how many nerds are worried about how workouts affect their sleep patterns?"
There are many kinds of nerds. The stereotypical hacker from my generation and roughly a generation (or more) before was all into hiking and martial arts. The stereotypical modern FPS console gamer does not necessarily represent all nerds.
(Score: 1) by SleazyRidr on Tuesday March 04 2014, @09:40PM
A lot of nerds are very worried about workouts affecting their sleep patterns. It's more than clear that not exercising significantly reduces your both quality of life and your life expectancy. A lot of us spend a lot of time not exercising, so finding the sliver of time that we can squeeze some exercise into our lives makes a big difference. Knowing that a sliver of time in the evening is just as good as time in the morning is very good news.
(Score: 1) by CoolHand on Wednesday March 05 2014, @04:15PM
Yeah, I was really going for the "stereotypical joke" there... obviously from my initial post, I'm also a nerd that works out... But that dry sense of sarcastic humour is hard to put through in a posting...
Either that or it's the stereotypical "whoosh".... :)
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