Sleep Your Way To Fitness

Sleep Your Way To Fitness


By Scot Dawson Special For eFitness
Getting a good night's sleep is a must for two reasons. No. 1 is that your body repairs itself from exercise while you sleep. No. 2 is the hours that you are asleep is when your body releases the majority of human growth hormones (HGH).
When you do resistance training you are actually tearing muscle fibers and your body must repair the damage stronger than it was in the first place. This repair takes proper amounts of protein and sleep. One of these by itsself will not do the job. You need sleep to put on lean muscle mass and thereby increasing your metabolism every day.
A higher level of human growth hormones in the body has been proven to help increase lean muscle mass and to reduce body fat. How do you increase human growth hormone? There are no weird supplements, no unusual yoga breathing techniques, just a good eight hours of sleep each night will do the trick.
Scot Dawson is director and head trainer for Apollo Fitness. He has been working in the fitness industry since 1998. To learn more, go to www.apollofitness.ca