Sleep complaints rise steadily with age and correlate with the same outcomes strength training addresses: cognitive function, metabolic health, and mood.
A systematic review of randomized controlled trials examining resistance exercise and sleep found improvements in subjective sleep quality and in several objective sleep parameters across included trials, with effects appearing in both healthy and clinical populations.
Effect sizes vary and study quality is uneven, so the honest reading is that resistance exercise is a promising, low-risk adjunct rather than an established sleep therapy.
Because the improvements do not appear to depend on high training volume, sleep is a reasonable secondary endpoint to track in patients starting a brief, supervised weekly protocol.
Systematic review of randomized controlled trials examining resistance exercise and sleep, reporting improvements in subjective sleep quality and several objective sleep parameters across included studies.
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