Exercise effect on sleep

[Fuzzypickle]

Hi all,

One question after listening to podcast #93: what effect does regular exercise have on sleep quality? Understand the potential negative and recommendation against exercising a couple hours before going to bed, but re: beneficial effects maybe regular exercise only helps increase daily sleep pressure/drive which may make falling asleep easier at night?

Thanks!

[Jordan_Feigenbaum]

Doesn’t really seem to affect sleep drive that much as far as it’s been measured, but does tend to improve sleep efficiency and reduces time to enter deep sleep. I believe both things were mentioned in the podcast, but if not, I definitely should have.