SleepVideo
How training intensity affects your sleep
A short breakdown of why hard days sometimes make sleep worse, not better.
5 min watch
It seems intuitive that a harder workout should lead to deeper sleep, but intense evening exercise can actually raise core body temperature and stress hormones enough to delay sleep onset for some people.
This walkthrough covers how to time intense sessions earlier in the day when possible, and what a gentle evening wind-down looks like when a late workout is unavoidable.
The takeaway: hard training and good sleep support each other best when there is a buffer of a few hours between the two.
