Sleep Unplugged with Dr. Chris Winter

#80 - Weight Training and Sleep: Keep on Lifting

Chris Winter

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Happy new year! It's 2024 and with a new year comes resolutions to join a gym and get into shape. The podcast has explored exercise and sleep relationships before, but is there a benefit to lifting weights? In this episode we will:

  • Touch on current gym use statistics
  • Revisit the impact sleep has on weight training, recovery, and athletic gains
  • Detail the impact on specific strength training exercises and sleep
  • Understand the impact of weight training on sleep quality and depression indices
  • Look at research showing sleep apnea improvement in individuals who weight train


Produced by: Maeve Winter

Music by: Dr. Abhinav Singh (@sleep_vigilante), all rights reserved


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Thanks for listening and sleep well!