Unwinding Workouts To Help You Sleep At Night

Unwinding Workouts To Help You Sleep At Night

Sleep is important, as it allows our body and organs to rest, recharge and refresh for the coming day. After a long day at work, sleep is all we need to calm our minds and relax our bodies.

However, if you have a poor sleeping pattern and struggle to sleep well at night, here are unwinding workouts that will help you sleep:

• Standing Forward Fold:
  Standing forward fold is a gentle stretching pose common to Hatha and restorative yoga. This type of yoga encourages you to focus on your breath as you stretch, creating a meditative state that promotes relaxation and realignment of the skeletal muscles. Practising this yoga posture helps improve sleep quality and daytime functioning while reducing mid-night awakenings.

• Planks:
  Planks can improve your posture and spinal alignment by strengthening your core and the rest of your body. Planks are part mental, part physical. Performing this challenging stretch before bed can help you unwind by giving your mind a single thing to focus on.

• Spine Twist:
  This is a very simple exercise that helps the body to relax and the muscles to loosen. To do this, you need to lie down on your back on the bed and bring your knees towards your chest area. Now fully extend your right leg and place it on the bed. 

• 4-7-8 Breathing:
  This is an advanced breathing exercise in which you control the speed of your breath to lower your heart rate and blood pressure to have a better sleep routine. To do this exercise, you need to put pressure with your tongue’s tip to the roof of the mouth behind your front teeth.

• Glute Bridge:
  Glute bridge is an Iyengar yoga pose that activates your core, back, and gluteal muscles in a low-impact way. Iyengar yoga has been shown to improve sleep quality and mood while reducing insomnia, anxiety, stress, and blood pressure.

• Bird Dog:
  The bird dog stretch strengthens your core and your back, promoting proper spinal alignment and a more comfortable night’s sleep.

In conclusion, sleeping is as important as having a healthy diet or working out. If you want a healthy lifestyle and do not want diseases or health issues to knock at your door frequently, then you have to ensure that you get enough sleep every day.

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