Can I sleep after running?

Generally speaking, if you take a shower after morning exercise or jogging, it is not recommended to go back to sleep, because your mental state is relatively excited and your body is gradually awakening, making it difficult to fall asleep again. Even if you fall asleep, it will not help your health. Sleeping after morning exercise will weaken the effect of exercise to a certain extent and will also affect the recovery of cardiopulmonary function. This article will explain in detail the disadvantages of sleeping after morning jogging. Let’s take a look.

1 Can I sleep after a morning run?

It is not good to sleep after a morning run. This is not good for your health and will weaken the effect of exercise. Moreover, sleeping after a morning run may not necessarily result in a good sleep effect and fail to achieve the purpose of rest.

2What are the disadvantages of sleeping after morning jogging?

Sleeping after morning jogging affects the effect of exercise

During morning jogging, the activity of human muscles raises the functions of all organs in the body from a low level to a higher level. The excitability of the nervous system and the ability to coordinate and command the whole body are also improved, which helps to increase physical strength and make the thinking agile, which helps to improve work efficiency. If you go to bed after a morning run, the exercise effect will almost disappear when you wake up.

Sleeping after a morning run does not serve the purpose of rest

After running in the morning, the heart rate has not recovered, the body still generates a lot of heat, the body sweats easily, the brain's nervous system is in an active and excited state, and it is not easy to fall asleep quickly; if you are an office worker, you have to get up quickly after not sleeping for long, which will make the body more tired due to lack of sufficient rest time. Moreover, sleeping after a morning run is not conducive to eliminating the lactic acid produced in the muscles due to running, which will make you more confused and your limbs weak.

Sleeping after morning jogging affects the recovery of cardiopulmonary function

After just finishing a morning run, cardiopulmonary activity is still at a relatively high level. The recovery of cardiopulmonary function requires a process from movement to stillness. Going to bed immediately after running can easily affect the recovery of cardiopulmonary function. After running, you should walk for a while to allow your cardiopulmonary function to return to normal.

3 What to do if you feel tired and want to sleep after morning run

To overcome the problem of fatigue and wanting to sleep after morning jogging, you should pay attention to the following points:

1. Stick to morning jogging to form a regular biological clock.

2. Control the amount of exercise and insist on running at the same frequency every day.

3. Don’t eat immediately after a morning run, because after a meal the blood must meet the needs of digestion, and the blood flow to the brain will decrease, thus causing fatigue. Therefore, it is best to rest for a while before eating after a morning run.

4. After a night's sleep, people lose too much water in the body due to breathing and urination, resulting in insufficient blood volume and increased blood viscosity. In this case, morning jogging can easily induce cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Drinking a glass of about 2500cc of cold boiled water before morning jogging can avoid these adverse factors. You can go jogging ten minutes after drinking the water.