Exercise may help teens sleep longer, more efficiently

Penn State – Katie Bohn

Getting more exercise than normal — or being more sedentary than usual — for one day may be enough to affect sleep later that night, according to a new study led by Penn State. In a one-week, micro-longitudinal study, the researchers found that when teenagers got more physical activity than they usually did, they fell asleep earlier, slept longer and slept better that night.

https://news.psu.edu/story/575392/2019/05/22/research/exercise-may-help-teens-sleep-longer-more-efficiently