A new study from 2017 looked at people that did resistance exercise and found that not only did it reduce the occurrence of anxiety and depression but it improved every aspect of sleep including sleep quality.

Many Americans rely on benzodiazepine medications to fall asleep but multiple studies have shown time and again that the use of Valium, Ativan, and Restoril as sleep aids reduces the quality of the sleep. Sleep medications such as these don’t allow you to reach the deepest most restorative levels of sleep known as “slow wave sleep”. It is important to note that this study was a review exploring the results of 13 other studies. There were a few factors that are important to emphasize:
• Chronic resistance exercisers experienced more benefit than new comers.
• Quality of sleep improved – more slow wave sleep and fewer interruptions
• Intensity or exercise matters and increased the be