Step-by-step explanation:
The Intimate Relationship Between Fitness and Sleep
*“If you don’t sleep, you undermine your body,” says W. Christopher Winter, MD, the president of Charlottesville Neurology and Sleep Medicine and the author of "The Sleep Solution: Why Your Sleep Is Broken and How to Fix It."
When it comes to working out, you know that what you do in the gym is important. But what you do outside the gym — what you eat, what you drink, and especially how you sleep, is just as crucial. In fact, you must sleep in order for exercise to actually work.
“We exercise for a purpose: for cardiovascular health, to increase lean muscle mass, to improve endurance, and more. All of these 'goals' require sleep,” says W. Christopher Winter, MD, the president of Charlottesville Neurology and Sleep Medicine and the author of The Sleep Solution: Why Your Sleep Is Broken and How to Fix It.
In other words, without sleep, exercise does not deliver those benefits, Dr. Winter explains. “If you don’t sleep, you undermine your body.”